Drivers
A careful look at loft, shaft and length with the club in your hands and a monitor on the wall.
Read moreMaking clubs since 1999
Clubs made and fitted by hand.
Cobbleford Workshop began in a farmhouse barn and moved to West Beaver Avenue when the barn got too cold. We fit clubs patiently, build them carefully, and repair the ones you thought were finished.
The workshop began in a barn
Peg Alvarado learned clubmaking from a retired professional in Altoona who taught her to measure twice, drill once and never to sell a club she would not play herself. In 1999 she set up a bench in the barn on Cobbleford Road in Pine Grove Mills and began building clubs for people in the valley.
The barn had no heat and the customers kept coming, so in 2004 the workshop moved to a storefront on West Beaver Avenue. The name came along, and so did the bench, which still has the burn mark from the first epoxy mishap.
Today Peg, Hollis and Wren run three benches in the same rooms. The work is mostly the same. The room is warmer.
What the benches do
Four kinds of fitting, plus building and repair. Every service has its own page.
Irons
Fitted and built to your lie, length and weight, and checked on the bench after assembly.
Read moreWedges
Ground and bent by hand when the catalog grind will not do.
Read morePutters
Cut to length, bent to lie and finished to your eye. We make them from raw heads too.
Read moreThe workshop method
The same slow sequence for every club.
| Look | We watch you swing and look at the clubs you carry before touching anything. |
|---|---|
| Measure | Height, wrist-to-floor, hand size and the loft, lie and length of your current set. |
| Try | One change at a time with the monitor running. You hit, we adjust. |
| Make | If you want clubs built, we build them to the final specification, then check them against it. |
Words from the guest book
Peg spent a whole afternoon with me and never once mentioned a price until I asked. The irons she built are the best I have owned.
Dr. Alan P., Boalsburg
I brought in my father's old irons and Hollis brought them back to life. They are beautiful and they work.
Karen S., State College
Wren fixed a lie problem on my wedges I had been playing with for years.
Marcus T., Bellefonte
Where people come from
The valley and a few miles beyond.
- State CollegeDowntown, the college area and the Park Forest neighborhoods
- Boalsburg and Pine Grove MillsSouthwest on Route 322
- Bellefonte and LemontEast and north, mostly weekday afternoons
- Altoona and LewistownA little farther, usually for builds
Making clubs since 1999 Clubs made by hand 2,000+ Home-game Saturdays closed Every one Benches Three