Some drivers still hide lag. A wrench will not invent it.

Modern drivers wear less offset than 1990s pear shapes, but a few millimeters still live in some faces. On the plate, hosel centerline remains datum. The leading edge of the face is the other jaw. If that gap is 2 mm or 5 mm, we write it down. If you then twist the adapter in the parking lot, you own a different head than the one we measured.

Golfers confuse this with “closing the face” on a sleeve. Closing the face with a jack changes face angle and loft. It does not pour extra iron-style lag into the casting. Shops that live on sleeve work will happily talk jacks. We will walk you back to the stairs and tell you to keep the wrench. Monument Avenue is large enough for both jobs; Suite 4 is not both jobs.

Dayton wind off the river can make a small driver lag feel like a start-line cheat. We still will not sell you a hardware story that belongs to an instructor. If the lag is tiny and the miss is huge, the mill says so in rust ink.