Iron Masters Not Just a Golf Course; Restaurant is Open to Public

People who live down the street from Iron Masters Country Club in Roaring Spring don't know that the restaurant is open to the public.

"People think, 'Oh, it's a country club. Members only,'" said Helen Lipko, who is the head cook and runs the kitchen at the restaurant. "We like to say we're not a country club – we're a club in the country."

The restaurant is managed by Rick Grubb, who runs the golf course, but Lipko and Tammy Croft Hoover have been running the restaurant day to day for at least 5 years and working there for at least 15. Both retired, the pair started as extra sets of hands to...