We’re delighted to unveil our Summer Meeting for 2026. Taking it back with another mega day out at The Addington.

It’s no secret we play plenty of golf, but until now it’s been done a little too casually. Cards not entered, swinging without consequence, and more flagstick gimmes than we’d like to admit. This year, that changes. We’re using our fortunate golf calendars to introduce some proper competition to the Jar, allowing us to stay sharp, and, just as importantly, to stay chirpy when our form is written in ink on the Cookie Jar Club Championship table. Whenever we play together during work, it’s now a match. Singles, foursomes, the occasional triangular. Nine holes minimum, but any length [...]

With just over six months until the golfing world shifts its focus from the pro game to the Walker Cup—one of the game's purest events—at the legendary Cypress Point, the countdown is well and truly on. Walker Cup expert and friend of the Jar, Darragh Garrahy, looks back on the 1971 match at St Andrews, where Michael Bonallack led a supposedly tame GB&I (or just GB, according to Golf World) to a stunning victory over a star-studded US side that hadn’t lost the cup since 1938. ''1971, when David beat Goliath'' words by Dr Darragh Garrahy [...]