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Wendell Craighead
Founder & Lead Builder
Wendell opened the repair bench after eleven years running the cart barn and shop at a public
course out east, where he learned club repair mostly because nobody else would do it and members
kept asking. He now handles every full-set build personally and does the final cold re-measure on
each one the morning after assembly.
He is the reason the tolerance card exists. His view is that a builder who will not publish a
number is a builder who has not measured one.
- Signs off on
- Iron sets, full bag audits, tolerance disputes
- Hardest to convince about
- Anything sold on feel alone
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Naomi Rutledge
Fitting Director
Naomi runs the bay. She came out of collegiate coaching and spent four years reading launch data
for a teaching academy before deciding the equipment side was where the unsolved problems were. She
is the one who decides how many swings a test needs before the numbers mean anything, and she will
end a session early if the data is too noisy to trust.
She also writes most of the Bench Journal, on the grounds that if she has to explain the same
thing at the counter three times it may as well be written down.
- Signs off on
- Driver and wood sessions, launch data interpretation
- House opinion
- Ten good swings beat forty tired ones
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Terrance Ogletree
Putter Bench & Short Game
Terrance built putters privately for about a decade before joining us, and he brought a stubborn
set of opinions about head mass and green speed that turned out to be right often enough that we
stopped arguing. He handles the stroke capture rig, all counterweight work, and every wedge grind
conversation.
If you arrive convinced your putter is fine and your stroke is the problem, he will happily prove
you have it backwards.
- Signs off on
- Putters, wedges, counterweight installs
- Standard first question
- What do your home greens roll at?
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Bess Kaminski
Component Room & Scheduling
Bess controls the rack. Every shaft, grip, ferrule and weight that enters the building passes
across her scale and into the log before it can be specified on a build. She also owns the calendar,
which means she is the one who will tell you honestly whether a two-visit bag audit fits before your
club championship.
She is unusually good at finding a discontinued shaft in a distributor's dead stock, which has
rescued more than one favourite driver.
- Signs off on
- Component intake, weight logging, order timelines
- Known for
- Refusing to promise a date she cannot hold
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Ravi Chandrasekar
Bench Technician
Ravi does the physical work most people never see: pulling adapters without cooking the graphite,
reaming hosels so a ferrule seats flush, mixing epoxy to weight rather than eye, and rebuilding the
handful of clubs that come back out of tolerance. He trained as a machinist, which shows in how
little he tolerates a gap anywhere.
He also keeps the calibration log for every instrument in the room, including the reference club
the swingweight scale is checked against each week.
- Signs off on
- Assembly, ferrule work, instrument calibration
- Pet peeve
- A ferrule that spins under a thumbnail
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The Sixth Bench
Currently Empty
We keep an unassigned bench for the apprentice programme. Two of the five people above started
there, learning component logging and regrips before touching anything with epoxy in it. It stays
open because we would rather train slowly than staff quickly.
If you are in the Memphis area, patient with a scale, and interested in learning the trade
properly, the shop email goes straight to Bess.
- Starts with
- Component intake and regrips
- Timeline
- Roughly two years to first solo build