Writing from Drop Bear Golf

Essays, field reports, and observations on the quiet part of the game.

The physics of the round face. The ritual of putting well. The putts tour players miss, and why nobody talks about them.

Pillar 01 The Round Face

Putting has a flat problem.

Every putter on the market today is built around a flat striking face. It is the industry convention, sixty years of muscle memory and tooling inertia. It is also a major reason amateur golfers three-putt. A case for the round face, from first principles.

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