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January 2023

Story of a Golf Club: Royal St. George’s – 1922 Open Championship

2023-01-16T16:12:17+00:00January 16th, 2023|Video|

A slight twist on our usual films, we wanted to share the story of the 1922 Open Championship at Royal St. George's. The Hagen win in 1922 ushered in a new era of American dominance in the professional game, with a gritty performance over his English and Scottish counterparts. Credit due to Tom Clavin's book 'Sir Walter, The flamboyant life of Walter Hagen', and in there he brilliantly describes the events as they unfolded with Bernard Darwin reporting from the fairways. Royal St. George's is a club steeped in history and one of the most significant clubs in the British [...]

‘5 things you didn’t know about…’ series

2023-01-16T16:08:02+00:00January 16th, 2023|Video|

In partnership with The Links magazine, we have developed a short series of micro-films from some of the most storied clubs with 5 obscure facts you may not have known! Know all 5? We'd love to hear from you! North Berwick: https://youtu.be/fq7JWAj5y-4 Royal St. George's: https://youtu.be/8pnmWMThdPE Royal Liverpool: https://youtu.be/NfbrjBT1vNY The Old Course at St Andrews: https://youtu.be/Dx7yCdVBpSQ    

Story of a Golf Club: RNGC

2023-01-16T16:00:08+00:00January 16th, 2023|Video|

Nestled in the rolling countryside of Devon, is England’s latest ’new build’. A course founded, designed, built and run by visionary Dan Davies. A man with a storied career in golf journalism and writing, he has developed RNGC to revive the short-course competitions from years gone by. The story of RNGC is really the story of Dan Davies. A man who has spent 10 months of more building a golf course to host a special one day invitational event for his friends and loved ones. Despite being a mere 510 yards in total, this 9 hole course makes up for [...]

The 2022 Spring Meeting at Prince’s & Royal St. George’s

2025-01-17T10:52:30+00:00January 16th, 2023|Events, Video|

The spring meeting is a staple of the golfing calendar, whereby a group of people convene following a long cold winter to mark the start of the golfing season. At the start of the year, we thought we would have a go at doing one with a twist! Two days in Kent with music, fireworks, great food, world class golf courses and of course, a group of people who share an unrivalled passion for the game! Special thanks must go to Prince's and Royal St. George's Golf Club who, without their extreme generosity and support for Cookie Jar, the event [...]

166 – DJ Piehowski

2023-01-10T11:09:35+00:00January 10th, 2023|Behind the Scenes, Podcasts|

Sam & Tom catch up with DJ Piehowski to get deep into 'hashtag the process' around the NLU film room, hear about his career in golf and how he came to work with the rest of the No Laying Up crew. After a hugely successful series of Tourist Sauce season 8 in Scandanavia we wanted a peak behind the curtain on how DJ brings all this together! hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and today I'm joined by SamWilliams and we are joined by DJ piehowski from no [...]

Half Par Holes by @halfparkid

2023-01-05T12:36:51+00:00January 5th, 2023|Blog|

@halfparkid (Peter) is a mysterious instagram character, who - like many - have built an anonymous social media presence around something he loves, able to share the finer details of bunkers, clubhouse lunches and green-to-tee transitions with a wider audience than just his school friends. Obsessed with British club culture and great architecture, we’ve been friends with Peter for a few years now and despite his diminutive frame, and bearing more than just a slight resemblance to the Superbad teenage tragic ‘McLovin’, there’s a huge golfing brain in there (as well as talent).  Peter played full time for several years, [...]

165 – Paul Craven at Royal Cinque Ports (the return)

2023-01-04T16:52:00+00:00January 4th, 2023|Behind the Scenes, Golf History, Podcasts|

One of our most popular guests from 2022 just so happened to be in Deal while we were down there over Christmas and we couldn't resist popping a mic in his hands and having a chat! Paul talks about his incredible weight loss (sure to help with those January new years resolutions), why golf clubs have sailing masts as flag poles, and fills us in on the latest goings on at Royal Cinque Ports! As always with Paul, a fascinating, illuminating and wide-ranging discussion! how are we doing anyway so welcome back a very popular First Time [...]

December 2022

164 – Eclectic 18: Martin Ebert

2022-12-29T10:13:18+00:00December 29th, 2022|Eclectic 18, Podcasts|

On a recent visit to the Kent coast, Tom managed to sit down with architect Martin Ebert from Mackenzie & Ebert. Mackenzie & Ebert advise many of the most highly ranked existing courses in the world, including eight of the ten Open venues, so sitting down with Martin to get his thoughts into what makes good golf was a real interest to us. This was a fascinating insight into what type of architecture makes Martin tick and we hope you enjoy. hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast a few days [...]

163 – A Christmas Party and a frost delay at Rye

2022-12-18T19:23:28+00:00December 18th, 2022|Podcasts|

A bit of a rinse repeat from our last years Christmas shenanigans, but then again, if it isn't broken, why fix it? On the 8th December we held our annual Christmas Party at Urban Golf in London, and followed it up with a day down at the bitterly cold Rye to blow off the cobwebs! It is yet another reminder of the wonderful reminder of the great community of golfers that we have around the country and being able to bring everyone together and share these experiences with is the biggest highlight for us at Cookie Jar! Cannot wait for [...]

162 – Effective Practice with Jon Sherman

2022-12-16T11:15:06+00:00December 16th, 2022|Podcasts|

Continuing our run of speaking to coaches that are trying to help everyone in the game, Bruce & Tom had the opportunity to sit down with Jon Sherman, author of the Four Foundations to talk through his philosophies on practice and improvement.  how are you how you doing uh I'm doing well how are you yeah very well thank you very well it's been um quiet season because it's cold over here how's it how's it over there is it yeah yeah I'm in I'm in New York uh to see some New York city so yeah we're down [...]

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