As we countdown the days to the 151st Open at Royal Liverpool, we're thrilled to bring you the Official Cookie Jar Golf preview film. Mighty Winds, Mighty Champions documents Hoylake's prodigious connection with the professional and amateur game, its rich history and takes a close look at the course and the array of challenges it will pose the world's best next week. https://youtu.be/-vvhvkSdReo
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. Latest Products
Mike talks through the transformation of golf course architecture from the earliest professionals to the renaissance in golf course architecture. Latest Products
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. Latest Products
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 Latest Products
In September 2020, we recorded a podcast with Jasper Miners & Sam Cooper from @evalu18golf. The pandemic was raging and a certain character - Ryan Noades - had been sending out dossiers to the wider golfing community about a restoration to his course at somewhere called ‘The Addington’ in Croydon, only 10 miles outside of central London. This promised to be one of the most daring and radical restorations Britain had ever seen, reverentially bringing back the great layout that Abercromby & Colt had left behind before the onset of WWII. On that podcast Jasper uttered the immortal words; [...]
Details of the day Thank you all for choosing to attend the first of a number of small gatherings that we are planning to put together in the coming months. The details for the day is as follows: 11:00 - Meet at Minchinhampton Old Course 11:30 - Bacon Rolls and Coffee 12:36 - First Tee Shot Minchinhampton Old is on common land and as such, does not have the luxury of any irrigation. With the blistering heat and lack of rain in the last few weeks, the club has asked us to temper expectation on green speed, [...]
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 developments like Ohoopee Match Club, Castle Stuart, and restorations like Yale. Colin has a huge fondness for British club culture which comes [...]
Sky Sports presenter Iona Stephen talks through her astonishing ascension through the age of golf and the injury that prevented her from progressing further. Latest Products
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. Latest Products
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