Ruben Alcantar
Ruben opened the bench in 2014 after eleven years in the repair room at a Hill Country club, where the job was mostly rescuing equipment that members had already broken. That experience shaped the whole studio: he had watched hundreds of expensive fittings quietly come undone because nobody checked the clubs afterwards.
He handles iron and wedge work, and he is the one who will tell you your set does not need replacing even when replacing it would be more profitable for the shop. He plays to a four handicap at a course he refuses to name because he does not want anyone waiting for him on the first tee.