The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast

Recorded from the beautiful ladies lounge at Walton Heath, we sat down with member and weekend scorer Nicola Taylor to recap the event, the experience and the fun from a members perspective, Spending a few days at the club through the AIG Women’s British Open was a real treat. as well as being one of the great storied golf clubs in Great Britain, Walton Heath is a progressive place which has a str...

Never turn a change down to sit down with Clayts to talk about the game. On Open Sunday we caught up with him to talk about the projects he is working on with CDP, the equipment rollback, and golf in England. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / F...

Gil Hanse talks through his experiences working with Mark Parsinen building Castle Stuart Golf Links. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

Tom & Sam sit down to roundup the tournament at Royal Liverpool Golf Club for the 150th Open.  Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

Tom sits down with professional golfer Bill Longmuir to discuss his career in golf and leading the 1979 Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes.   Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

GIVEAWAY IN THIS PODCAST - details enclosed within.    Tom & Sam are joined by returning guest James Day to chat through the events of day 2. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

Sam & Tom sit down to discuss The Open from the grounds at Hoylake. Having wandered around all morning and soaked up the play and the atmosphere, we dive into course setup, conditions, how the players were playing holes and good vantage points on the course.    Tomorrow the 151st Open Championship will begin and Matthew Jordan - Hoylake-hero - will be hitting the opening tee shot. We'll b...

Tom sits down with course manager James Bledge on the Tuesday of The Open to discuss how the course is shaping up and the fantastic work the greens team are doing.  As you will hear, things haven't exactly gone to plan with the weather, but the team have worked incredibly hard to present the course in immaculate condition for the 151st Open Championship at Royal Liverpool Golf Club. Send us a...

Tom sat down with Stephen Proctor to discuss the great players of Royal Liverpool. John Ball Jr and Harold Hilton were true legends of the club and two of only three amateurs to win the Open Championship.  "And now sir, you may catch your boat" Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can foll...

Tom sits down with good friend of the podcast Joe McDonnell to chat through the evolution of Hoylake, through its ground breaking origins, Harry Colt changes and the new changes. Many mins ago, we stated the Royal Liverpool are progressive traditionalists, let’s dive deeper and find out why.  Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on A...

Mike talks through the transformation of golf course architecture from the earliest professionals to the renaissance in golf course architecture.  Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

Sam & Tom sat down with David Shaw-Stewart, the owner of Traigh golf club to chat through all things 9-holer.  It’s safe to say, this little place stole our hearts. A lovely, quirky 9 hole layout that you can whip round in no time, endlessly loop and never get bored.  Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spot...

Sam and Tom chronicle their journey across the Outer Hebrides in a van. Five days , eight courses and a product shoot. Very busy indeed. The courses we visited were: Southerness Carradale Machrahanish Dunaverty Traigh  Askernish Stornoway Isle of Harris Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follo...

Huge episode this one. We knew it would be a biggie, colin is a great orator and has a fascinating insight on the game of golf. As head coach for Yale Bulldogs for over 15 years, he has seen a generational change in the way the game is played by the young amateurs that progress into the professional ranks and had a front row seat to the action. Colin has also been a pioneer with recent development...

Sky Sports presenter Iona Stephen talks through  her astonishing ascension through the age of golf and the injury that prevented her from progressing further. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

Without doubt the most turbulent 24 hours in golf news in recent memory, we couldn't walk passed the opportunity for a quick take on the news, who the winners and losers will be and what might happen next. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram /...

Sam & Bruce speak to John Simpson who runs the on course foundation helping injured veterans in the US & UK get into golf as well as working for Mark McCormack at IMG from The 1970’s through to 1997, and looking after some of the best players of his era; Nick Faldo, Bernhard Langer, Vijay Singh. For more on the On Course Foundation head to their website Send us a message if you liked the s...

A look back at the first chat we had with David Cannon talking about photography at the majors and getting the best photographs.  Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website

We sat down with decorated golf journalist and writer - Lorne Rubenstein - for our second Player Profile episode, chronicling the career of the legendary, enigmatic character: Moe Norman. Murray Irwin ‘’Moe’’ Norman was a professional golfer from Kitchener, Ontario. Self-taught, with a unique swing, demeanour and personality, as well as a god given skill for flushing the golf ball. He won nearly e...

Tom & Sam sat down with golf historian Simon Haines to discuss (amongst other things) golf course architects, architecture, the history of the game and the historical faux pas that have been dropped over the last few decades. Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below @cookie...

Another first for us, we’ll be releasing 'The Cookie Crumbs' to accompany our main podcasts. Perfect for those short journeys or when you only have 5 or 10 minutes spare… Bitesize podcasts from our back catalogue, the pearls of wisdom which risk being lost to time. In our first cookie crumbs, we go back to episode 20 - still one of our favourite episodes of all time - with decorated golf...

Miniature recap of our trip to Sandwich & North foreland to play royal St George’s & the par 3 course at North Foreland. More of a rambling episode where we cover everything from gout, to service stations, par 3 layouts and more… Send us a message if you liked the show If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify ! You can follow us along below...

After our first event of 2023 - the Masters Friday at Blackwell - the boys get together at Runnymede, where the Magna Carta was signed back in 1215. We recap on the highlights of the mixer and chat about the last few days in Augusta, GA.  Regular podcast scheduling will begin again after a short hiatus, even podcasters take annual leave. We hope you enjoy.  Send us a message if you liked the show...

Equipment aficionado James Day from Sounder Golf & Urban Golf joins Sam to recap on todays announcement by the R&A and USGA about the potential restrictions on ball technology from 2026. This will see a change to testing tolerances and what this could mean, as well as possible motivations and what we can expect to see from golf's 'stakeholders' in the next 5 months as the ga...

A new sub-series of podcasts for 2023, we take a look at the iconic ball striker George Knudson, famed for his debonair looks on the course and zen-like control when playing he was a fascinating character. Described by Jack Nicklaus as having ‘a million dollar swing and a ten cent putter’, George Knudson is Canadian Golfer who simply adored his craft. Lorne Rubenstein who co-authored the book ‘The...