Witness A
Heel-high moon
A bright crescent toward the heel means the toe arrived first. The ball often starts right on firm turf, then people call it a block or blame Wasatch wind. The vote is “stand it up,” in bites, with a second paint.
Method
Copper is a ballot. Memory is a coward.
We paint a thin wash on the sole, we hit, we photograph. Face stickers join the argument when the sole is mute. This page is the method, not a sales pitch. If you only want the ram, skip to the desk form.
Witness B
Toe scuff
A smear at the far end of the sole means the heel never worked. Starts pull. Charts that say “you are tall” get ignored. The vote is toward flat. Wedges show this more honestly than drivers.
Witness C
Center dust, still crooked
Even polish with a leaky start line. Then we add a face sticker and a camera. Dynamic lie at impact can disagree with the museum on the sole. We write both. We ram only if they start to agree after a small bite.
Paint versus sticker
They are not interchangeable witnesses
Face stickers love the story of gear effect and center contact. Soles love the story of which end kissed Utah dirt. A room that only uses stickers will miss a hosel that is lying on the ground while the face looks pretty. A room that only uses paint will miss a dynamic lie that changes after the ball is gone. We use both when the first witness is a mumbler.
Copper photographs better against sandstone light than yellow grease. That is vanity, and also practical. Inez archives the pictures with the ticket serial. If you come back in June after a winter of mats, we can compare moons instead of vibes.
The second paint after a bite is documented in why we paint the sole twice. Hold an hour from the desk if you want your own serial.