Inlet city · West First · first roll
The first three inches of roll decide the rest of the putt.
Bulge Roll is a tide desk on West First. We care about how a putter starts the ball on frost-fast boards around Ship Creek, not about a brand of mallet you saw in a magazine that has never met an inlet winter.
Why a tide desk
A putter is a start. Everything after is weather.
Anchorage municipals in January are faster than the stories people bring from lower 48 summer greens. If the first three inches are a hop, the rest of the putt is a rumor. We start there.
Hop, skid, and the face that aims at Knik
Soren Ipalook will not talk about alignment aids until the start is a roll. Marit will make you putt on a cold board we keep in the back, not on a carpet that forgives hops.
Heard on West First
Notes from people who left a hop on the cold board
Marit put my mallet on the cold board and the first inch hopped like a salmon. I had blamed Knik wind for two winters. We took loft off. The wind got quieter.
They would not let me bring a second putter 'for snow days.' Slot fourteen is one start. I was annoyed, then I stopped switching faces mid-round at Earthquake Park.