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CWCobbleford Workshop

Making clubs since 1999 · State College, PA

Workshop history

A barn, a stove that never quite worked, and a long run of patient customers.

The barn

In 1999 Peg Alvarado rented a corner of a farm barn on Cobbleford Road. It had a woodstove, a drill press and a coat of dust. She built her first set of irons for a neighbor and was booked for the next year.

West Beaver Avenue

The barn was too cold, so in 2004 she moved to a storefront on West Beaver. Hollis joined from a woodworking shop in Bellefonte, and the benches multiplied.

Today

Three benches, a monitor on the wall and a stack of notebooks that goes back to the first year. Wren Sato joined in 2020 and runs the putter work.