Owner · Long game · Here since day one
Dane Corrigan
Driver, fairway woods, hybrids, launch data
Dane opened the shop after a bad retail fitting and two years learning to build clubs properly in
Cincinnati. He fits the long end of the bag, runs the numbers side of the business, and is the one
most likely to talk you out of a purchase.
His particular obsession is dispersion. He will show you two driver builds where one carries four
yards further and the other keeps twelve more shots in play, and then let you sit with the trade-off
rather than deciding it for you. He plays to a five out of a public course in Hilliard and has been
chasing the same slice-adjacent miss for twenty years, which he says keeps him humble.
- Certified on two major launch monitor platforms, re-certified every second year
- Builds every driver and fairway wood that leaves the shop
- Writes most of the Ladder Notes journal
Irons and wedges · Joined 2016
Rhea Kolstad
Iron sets, gapping, wedge bounce and grind
Rhea came from a teaching background and still coaches two mornings a week, which shapes how she
fits. She is far more interested in what your set does at a three-quarter swing on a windy day than in
the number a perfect eight iron produces once.
She is responsible for most of what this shop believes about gapping. The rule she brought with her
— that a set should have no two clubs closer than seven yards apart in median carry and no gap
wider than fifteen — is now written on the wall behind the bench, along with her habit of
crossing out the number when the golfer in front of her is the exception.
- Fits every iron set and wedge combination that goes through the shop
- Runs the junior sizing programme in spring and late summer
- Grinds sole relief by hand for players who need it
Build bench · Joined 2019
Silas Pellerin
Assembly, reshafting, loft and lie, repairs
Silas spent nine years as an aerospace fabricator before deciding he would rather work on golf
clubs, and it shows in how the bench is run. Every component is weighed, every tip trim is logged, and
every finished club gets a second measurement pass by somebody who did not build it.
He is also the reason we publish tolerances rather than promising perfection. Ask him what a
swingweight point is worth in grams and you will get an answer that starts with "it depends where you
put it" and ends fifteen minutes later with you understanding counterbalancing properly.
- Assembles and inspects every club built here
- Handles shaft extractions, ferrule work and epoxy failures
- Maintains the calibration schedule for the machines
Front desk · Putters · Joined 2021
Tess Vandeveld
Scheduling, aftercare, putter fitting
Tess answers the phone, keeps the diary honest, and fits putters. The last of those started as a
favour when the roll surface sat unused for a season and turned into the fastest-growing part of the
appointment book.
Her view is that putter fitting is mostly geometry and honesty: get the eyes over the line, get the
shaft lean matched to the loft, and stop pretending that a stroke which arcs is a fault to be
corrected. She will spend twenty minutes measuring before you roll a single ball, which surprises
people who expected to be handed a tray of headcovers.
- Books every session and confirms it by phone
- Runs the roll surface, the arc gauge and the loft rig
- Chases warranty claims and component back-orders so you do not have to