Upright
Heel that never lands
A lie too upright on Kansas Avenue grain keeps the heel in the air and sends the toe knocking balls right of the cup.
Kaw · Kansas Avenue · lie plates
Match the lie to how the sole actually sits, not how a poster leans.
Putter Lie is a barge office. We chalk whether the toe is flying or the heel is digging on Kaw-town bermuda, then we stamp lie so a Kansas Avenue grain cannot keep turning a true stroke into a miss left or right.
Plate method
Toe flight is a leak. Heel dig is a snag. The plate only records.
Dorsey Quinn paints the plate the way a chute boss paints a hopper wall. Hattie Brunk then bends lie to that paint, or she refuses a costume angle copied from a stranger who never stood on this grain.
Flat
Toe that never lands
A lie too flat lets the heel bully the first inch. The ball leaks left before anyone can call it a stroke error.
Costume
A barn stencil
An angle copied from a poster that never met Kaw humidity. Useful as decoration. Useless as a plate read.
Heard on the wharf
Notes from people who left a stencil on the barge list
Hattie painted my plate and the heel had been lying to me for two summers. The upright I loved was a right-side thief. We flattened a half degree. Potwin stopped leaking.
They made me pick a grain: into the Kaw breeze or with it. I wanted both. Dorsey handed the plate back until I chose. I chose. The miss changed sides, which was the point.