June 2025

315 – Course Diaries: Royal Worlington & Newmarket

2025-06-24T08:53:49+00:00June 24th, 2025|Course Diaries, Podcasts|

Sam and Tom sit down with Nigel Notley (archivist) & Michael Morrison (club historian) from Royal Worlington & Newmarket Golf Club - affectionately refered to as 'the sacred nine' or simply 'Mildenhall' to discuss the history of one of the most unique clubs in the British Isles. As a course, it's simple, elegant and a monument to penal design at the hands of Tom Hood and Tom Dunn. As a club, it's synonymous with The Pink Jug, a concoction of just about everything in the spirit cabinet which comes together in a potent cocktail and now serves as [...]

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314 – Iain Forrester on Hickory Golf

2025-06-19T12:06:28+00:00June 19th, 2025|Podcasts|

Sam sits down with Iain Forrester to talk about his lifelong fascination with the history of the game, and in particular hickory golf. Iain is the 5th generation of a golfing family, who having learnt the game and becoming a professional in the UK, moved to The Netherlands at Hoenshuis Golf & Country Club where he is the resident professional. Iain has a staggering collection of golf books and hickory clubs, a frequent contributor to British golf collectors society journal 'Through The Green', and the official archivist the PGA of Holland. He is also a masterful hickory player, [...]

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045 – How golf courses change over time

2025-06-12T13:25:29+00:00June 12th, 2025|Golf Badgers, Podcasts|

Sam & Bledge sit down to reflect on their latest adventures at the Blackwell Foursomes and RNGC. They explore how golf course architecture — from bunkering to subtle design shifts — continues to evolve, challenging both everyday golfers and the game’s elite. Latest Products

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312 – The Tiger Slam Pt 1: Perfection at Pebble Beach

2025-07-25T08:14:09+00:00June 4th, 2025|Golf History, Podcasts, Tour Takes|

A new short series of podcasts we'll be running to commemorate the 2000/01 Tigerslam where Tiger Woods claimed all four major trophies in a 12 month stretch. In part one we kick off with Pebble Beach. Starting the year off as the defending US PGA Champion, Vijay Singh would clinch the first major of the year, but Tiger was playing by far and away the best golf on tour. As such, it's no surprise he teed off at pebble on the Thursday as the bookies 3-1 favourite. In what would become dubbed 'Perfect at Pebble', Woods' win in [...]

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044 – Badgers are Back

2025-10-20T08:28:59+00:00June 3rd, 2025|Golf Badgers, Podcasts|

Sam & James sit down to discuss their much anticipated return after their hiatus with some exciting news! Now part of the Cookie Jar Golf, the team will be helping with editing and publishing of episodes, while still keeping the same great insight and lo-fi jazz intro that listeners will be familiar with. In this episode, Sam & James talk about what's been going on with them, the exciting news and of course the rdrought which has taken many courses to the edge this spring. Latest Products [...]

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311 – Exciting Announcement: Golf Badgers

2025-06-03T09:54:46+00:00June 3rd, 2025|Course Diaries, Golf History, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Some exciting news from us this week as we extend our ‘stable’ of podcast from 1 to 2! We’re thrilled to be bringing the Golf Badgers podcast into Cookie Jar! For those that don’t know, Golf Badgers is a popular industry and greenkeeping podcast which has been going for over a year now. The show is hosted by James Bledge (Links Manager at Royal Liverpool) and Sam Cooper (Course Architect at McDonnell & Cooper) who bring an unrivalled passion for their industries on all matters around turf health, agronomy and how it allows the golf course architecture to really shine. [...]

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May 2025

310 – Course Diaries: Royal Wimbledon w/ Anthony Wolfe

2025-05-28T18:31:59+00:00May 28th, 2025|Course Diaries, Golf History, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Sam & Tom sit down with Anthony Wolfe, the club archivist of Royal Wimbledon Golf Club, to talk about its history in the game which dates back to 1865. It has had three separate golf courses and its now full time home on the other side of camp cottage from Wimbledon Common, is the product of Harry Colt which has recently undergone huge work by Mackenzie & Ebert in recent years. Some of the game's greatest names have travelled through Royal Wimbledon, and we sit down with Anthony to talk about it all. [...]

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309 – Persimmon Woods & Joe Powell w/ Scott Redman and John Morgan

2025-05-20T08:59:14+00:00May 20th, 2025|Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Sam sits down with Scott Redman and John Morgan at The Bristol Golf Club who have in recent years acquired the Joe Powell Persimmon company. Scott is an equipment nerd and creative wizz who has spent decades around the game and John Morgan is a broadcaster for SkySports and played professionally on The PGA Tour. When the opportunity came up to acquire Joe Powell, they just couldn't say no, and their story, much like the company itself is a fascinating one. Huge thanks to The Bristol for having us last week, and looking after us so well! [...]

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308 – GB&I Top 100 Reaction

2025-05-07T14:15:30+00:00May 7th, 2025|Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Sam and Tom are joined by Half Par to dive into the newly released GB&I Top 100 from Top100GolfCourses.com — plus the other big three UK rankings from Golf World, Golf Monthly, and National Club Golfer. We get into the work that goes into these lists, what makes each one unique, the biggest movers (both deserved and controversial), the new entries, and whether rankings really matter at all. We also chat about our updated Rank of Ranks, where we’ve combined all four lists to create the ultimate guide — fully filterable, so you can slice and dice it however [...]

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