Still photograph
The mallet hangs or sits. We wait. A hunting face is already a story. A dead-still face is only a claim until the stroke starts.
Mallet work on the rail
Rest is not the same as hang
A winged mallet can sit so quietly on the hook that the degree card reads zero, and still rotate once the stroke starts because mass behind the face is not toe weight. Cora photographs the rest, then the first three inches. The second picture is the one that usually matters on peninsula greens.
First three inches
We watch whether the toe begins to fall as the mallet leaves rest. That fall is hang the catalog did not print. Grain makes it louder.
Mass versus toe
High-MOI shapes forgive a miss. They do not cancel rotation. If your arc is strong, a quiet rest can still be the wrong cousin.
West Ashley afternoons
When bermuda leans toward the Ashley
Bo Gadsden’s mallet sat at zero and leaked every afternoon putt. The rest was honest. The stroke was not. We hung a mid-mallet that wanted about twenty degrees and wrote the grain window on the slip. That is a Rest Map hour: eighty minutes, one head, no woods in the room.
If you already know the mallet is a liar, skip the shorter Face-Balance Ledger and claim the Rest Map. The ledger proves a zero. The map watches the start.