Short room
Wedge panes on pine-straw and wet sand
A full-swing gap wedge on a mat is a different room from a 40-yard shot off straw. Ellis will not bless a pane that only existed at 100 percent. Partials rotate the window. Sand and needles tilt it.
The third line on a short shot
Face still owns the first wall. Path still owns the second. The spin axis still stands off the plane — and on a wedge that axis is the whole conversation, because the ball is supposed to stop. Humidity around the Cape Fear can keep a wedge from checking the way a Colorado drawing promised. We write that down instead of grinding the sole into a superstition.
Why we leave the building
When we can, Ellis takes the liar wedge behind the brick for a few pine-straw balls. Wet sand, when the city courses have it, is a different field trip. Indoor-only wedge drawings get labeled indoor-only. That label is not shame; it is honesty about which room you bought.
Bounce is furniture
Grind and bounce wait until the window is drawn at the lengths you actually hit. A wide sole cannot invent a plane your face never occupied. If a teacher has you steep on purpose, say so — that is a lesson wall, and we will not fight it with a grind.