ML-02 · Fairway
Fairway loft that does not sit down too soon
The crime in this valley is a 3-wood that launches like a 5 and a 5 that is secretly a 7. Paint stacks. Delivered lofts collapse. We put each head on the jaws and restore the steps, or we tell you the stamps were never a set.
Fairway heads are shy about telling the truth. Shallow faces, rail soles, and a little extra bulge make a gauge seating fussier than an iron. We still do it. A sloppy seat is how a shop “finds” a degree that vanishes on hole four at Olde Homestead.
If your 3-wood is already weak of stamp, weakening it further to “help get it up” is how you invent a second 5-wood. We would rather strengthen a lazy 15 back toward fifteen and let the 5 keep its job.
Mill habit
We like to see the driver window in the same visit if you are already arguing about a 3-wood. The two heads share a sky. A Whole-Bag pass covers that; a Single Jaw on the fairway alone does not guess at the driver.
Rails and bounce are a later conversation. If the loft is wrong, the ball never sees the rail you paid for. Bring the 3 and the 5 together if you have both. The mill paper looks kinder when the two columns can argue with each other.