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Toe Hanger Meeting Street · Charleston

The people on the hook

Four smiths who live with the rail

Nobody here answers to “master fitter.” We hang heads, write humidity, and argue about grain. The names below are the ones who will actually unlatch Suite 8 for your hour.

Founder · rail smith

Rhett Calhoun

Hung the first bar in 2017 after a plumber-neck blade opened six degrees in a wet June and nobody on the peninsula could say why. Reads the degree card. Recuts it on Mondays. Will send you home if you brought a driver by mistake.

Hang degrees · humidity

Maren Pinckney

Keeps the cabinet honest. Writes harbor moisture in the margin of every slip. Grew up putting poa at dawn on the peninsula and still trusts a still toe more than a still story. If the lock is swollen, she is the one who calls you.

Blades · neck offset

Ellis Wadmalaw

Flow necks, plumber necks, and the short hosels that pretend to be both. Named for the island, not a brand. Will hang two blades of the same loft and show you they are not cousins. Hates marker ink on a degree card.

Mallets · rest angles

Cora Ravenel

Rest is her argument. She photographs a mallet sitting quiet, then watches the first three inches of the stroke to see if the mass behind the face is a liar. Face-balance claims go through her ledger before they go on a slip.

Who you will not meet

No touring names, no borrowed faces

We do not rent a champion’s likeness. The four people above are the shop. If a review mentions a fifth smith, it is not this rail.

Read the ledger of golfers who already hung a head here, or claim an hour and ask for a specific smith if you already know who should read your toe.