Straight-back
Wants quiet rotation
A path that stays on a line through the ball does not want a 40° plumber neck opening the face. Mild hang or a true rest usually belongs here, after we prove the rest is not a liar.
Path versus dangle
The path has to want the toe
A hang number without an arc family is a trivia fact. Straight-back strokes fight a strong blade hang. Strong arcs fight a face-balanced rest. Matching those two is the actual work on the Meeting Street carpet; the photograph is only the first sentence.
Mild arc
Wants a conversation
Most peninsula golfers live here. Twenty degrees of hang is a common honest number, but humidity and a pistol can shove it without asking. We hang twice if the grip changed.
Strong arc
Wants the toe to fall
A gate that opens and closes wants a blade that participates. Handing this golfer a face-balanced mallet is how afternoon bermuda starts leaking toward the Ashley.
Not a lesson
We watch the gate. We do not coach it.
If you do not yet know which family your path lives in, a putting coach is the cheaper first hour. We will still rake grain, because grain is how rest lies get loud. Watching is not teaching. Read the distinction before you claim the rail as if it were a school.
Harbor Rail is the slip that includes arc, length, and hang in one clock. Arc Match as a named hang is for golfers who already have a photograph and need the path vote.