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June 2023

The Muddyman Torpedo: A Mid-Amateur Scratch Event (28th July)

2023-06-01T12:26:24+00:00June 1st, 2023|Blog|

'The Muddyman Torpedo ' Blackwell Golf Club Friday 28 July 2023 36 holes scratch medal  Mid Amateur event (aged 25 or over on 1.1.23) Those of you who follow our content know how passionate we are about the amateur game - particularly those great anecdotes and characters who sadly seem to be less common in today’s more professionalised, sanitised world of golf.  Well, in fighting for the true spirit of amateurism, we’re delighted to resurrect a famous event of the Blackwell calendar - The Muddyman Torpedo.  ‘The Torpedo’ was an annual contest hosted at Blackwell by one of the legendary [...]

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May 2023

183 – John Simpson MBE

2023-05-25T10:47:27+00:00May 25th, 2023|Behind the Scenes, Podcasts|

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 fromThe 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 Latest Products

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Alnmouth Village Golf Club

2023-05-23T13:04:51+00:00May 23rd, 2023|Video|

The club was established in 1869 making it the oldest 9 hole links in England. The course was designed by the famous Scottish golfer Mungo Park, winner of the 1874 Open Championship at Musselburgh. He was also the club's first professional/greenkeeper. We stopped by here after a game at Goswick last year, and having been told about it by Ronan Rafferty we just couldn't resist. We're so glad we did. This 9 hole layout is the epitome of simplicity. 5 holes away, and 4 coming back, almost like a miniature version of The Old Course at St Andrews with Granny [...]

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Spring Meeting MMXXIII at Moortown & The Alwoodley Golf Club

2025-01-17T10:50:29+00:00May 16th, 2023|Events, Video|

Our 2023 Spring Meeting was held at Moortown & The Alwoodley Golf Club on the 10th & 11th May. A celebration of the early work by the great Dr Alister MacKenzie who designed and laid out the courses in Leeds. Alwoodley was his maiden attempt and nervous members - keen to find out whether their money was going to good use - appointed HS Colt to come and check the work by this physician turned architect. Not long after, MacKenzie was part of the group of founding memebrs at Moortown looking to establish a course less than a mile from [...]

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Match Report: Spring Meeting MMXXIII

2023-05-16T07:33:24+00:00May 16th, 2023|Blog|

in partnership with   The second Cookie Jar Spring Meeting was held on the 10th & 11th May at Moortown and The Alwoodley Golf Club. A two day handicap Stableford competition for 33 supporters, friends, and golf obsessives.  Moortown & Alwoodley both hold a special place in the history of golf course architecture: Alwoodley being the first design by the great Dr Alister MacKenzie who would go on to work at Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point and Augusta National but not before Moortown which was his second creation and our first stop of the tour.  The story is well documented in [...]

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Cookie Crumbs #2 – The Trouble with Photography with David Cannon from episode 018

2023-05-12T11:46:58+00:00May 12th, 2023|Cookie Crumbs, Podcasts|

A look back at the first chat we had with David Cannon talking about photography at the majors and getting the best photographs. Latest Products

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182 – Player Profile: Moe Norman w/ Lorne Rubenstein

2023-05-09T07:44:18+00:00May 9th, 2023|Golf History, Podcasts|

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 everything in his home country, was admired by his peers for the control he had over the ball and was once desired by Tiger Woods as being one of only two people to ever ’truly [...]

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181 – Golf history fails with Simon Haines

2023-05-03T07:57:26+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Golf History, Podcasts|

Show Notes from Podcast w/ Simon Haines on some of the great golf history fails  The genesis for this episode came on the 17th January. We had just released our first film from our series in The Netherlands, a homage to work of H.S Colt and his influence on the golfing landscape of Holland. Only 20 minutes after the film was published, Simon Haines - esteemed British golf course history expert - was in the WhatsApp’s suggesting the image we had used of Colt was indeed Vardon. Despite the immediate panic he assured us that this was a [...]

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Cookie Crumbs #1 – Ego with Gio Valiante from Episode 020

2023-05-01T19:30:51+00:00May 1st, 2023|Cookie Crumbs, Podcasts|

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 psychologist Dr Gio Valiante on the importance of mastery Vs ego.  For the full episode head to Episode 20 and listen to the whole thing.  [...]

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