The tide room
Start is a measurement. Magazines are a climate.
We keep a cold board in the back that approximates January municipals around Ship Creek. If the first three inches are not a roll on that board, nothing else on the putter matters yet.
Players arrive with a mallet story and a summer memory. Inlet winter does not honor either. It honors loft at address, face bulge, and a skid window short enough for ice-fast boards.
Soren will stop a session if you want to talk about sightlines before the hop is gone. That is the personality of the desk.