Rollout FAQ
Questions the tape already answered
If your question is “can you make it stop on a dime,” the honest answer is: on July bake, no. We can shorten the walk. We cannot repeal black-dirt heat.
Do you measure how steep the ball arrives?
No. That is a flight question. This room starts after the ball is down. Hop height and walk length are the lines we keep. If you need an arrival slope, another kind of room does that work.
Why split hop and walk instead of one “rollout” number?
Because a tall first hop can die, and a mean little skip can crawl twelve feet on a baked municipal. One number hides which animal you have. The sheet writes both.
Does April ice crust change the hop?
Yes. Freeze-thaw poa in Fargo has ice in the thatch until late morning. First hop is short and nasty. Walk is almost none until the crust lets go. A fitting done only at 2 p.m. in July will lie to an April tee time.
What about prairie wind after the land?
The hop is a sail for a second. A northwest gust down the river corridor stretches the walk without changing hop height much. We write “shear” on the sheet when the Broadway window ribbon is pulling.
Why will you not give a putter a walk number?
A putter does not hop. Calling pace a “walk” trains the wrong eye. See Putter None. We will talk face mill and start, then send you to a pace board, not to the hop tape.
Can I bring a junior?
If they can hit the ball they pocket three times in a row without posing, yes. The tape does not care about age. It cares about a cluster.
Do you take walk-ins on Saturday?
Rarely. Saturday Tick is the scarce slot after a thaw week. Email or the form. Calling (701) 555-0191 on Saturday morning usually gets a “we are on the tape” voicemail.
Will you recut if the hop wanders after I leave?
Inside 16 days of pickup, loft recut on the same head is no charge if the cluster we kept no longer matches the municipal. Bring the sheet. We do not recut a story you invented on a different ball.