August 2024

Royal St Davids Golf Club – Wales Tour 2024

2024-08-16T10:51:51+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

Royal St David's - more affectionately known as 'Harlech' - is a truly unique place. Golf has been played here since 1894 when Harold Finch-Hatton was initially using the land to practice his boomerang skills on the links. The club was generally a second club for people heading to the coast, much like Westward Ho! We had a superb time here, having stopped over in town after Welshpool we were on the links at first light, with an afternoon game lined up at Borth & Ynyslas! The 750 year old castle that sits above the links at all times has [...]

Welshpool Golf Club – Wales Tour 2024

2024-08-16T10:50:45+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

First stop on our travels through Wales is Welshpool just across the border from England, on the rolling hillside above the town. Welshpool was designed by James Braid in 1929 and features some extraordinary views, elevation change and incredibly good value golf. The sort of place we love most of all! Website: www.cookiejargolf.com In partnership with FootJoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZiOC3rkBBo&t=9s

The Old Course Reversed – St Andrews

2024-08-16T10:47:27+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

Short film from our time in St Andrews, playing the reverse routing. Something that’s on Tiger Woods’ bucket list was a real treat. Huge thanks to the Links Trust at the Home of Golf ‪@thehomeofgolf‬ as well as Clyde Johnson from Renaissance Golf Design for sharing his wisdom on the pod. Sponsors: ‪@FootJoy‬ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IveMHBM9J54&t=1s  

A Break In at Sunningdale Heath

2024-08-16T10:43:49+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

Sunningdale Heath were introduced to renowned graffiti artists Troika paint, to explore how they could collaborate to bring something unique to the Golf Club. Sunningdale Heath is always striving to create an inclusive and fun atmosphere at the club, what better way to do this than through art. Fair to say this has never been done at a Golf Club before. Troika have designed a fun piece of art that is full of inclusive images, inspirational people, amusing illustrations and colour in abundance. From the start everybody involved knew how challenging this would be, something that had never been done [...]

Story of a Golf Club – Alwoodley

2024-08-16T10:41:20+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

This is the OG MacKenzie course, a club founded by a number of members from nearby Leeds, one of which was an ambitious Dr who would later go on to design Cypress Point, Royal Melbourne and of course Augusta National. This was the firts course he ever worked on, and his nervous co-members were keen to get the only real household name in the design of golf courses up from London to inspect his work and provide his seal of approval. HS Colt would do just that, and it started a long period where the two worked on courses either [...]

‘Making a Mark’ – Creating a new logo with Lee Wybranski

2024-08-16T10:39:11+00:00August 16th, 2024|Video|

We've been spending lots of time with renowned golf artist Lee Wybranski this year talking logos and we're proud to bring you a new alternative merchandise mark which he has lovingly created after rounds of meetings! This is the story of how we created it and why! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owp_qaOPaKU&t=83s

October 2023

CJG x Sounder Golf Retro Extravaganza: West Byfleet Golf Club

2025-01-17T10:49:19+00:00October 24th, 2023|Events, Video|

People from all over the country descended on West Byfleet Golf Club on the 19th October for our second Retro Event. Everyone playing took things seriously, carefully curating their sets with persimmon, blades, wands and clubs of special meaning. West Byfleet is a wonderful course for such an event, playable and relatively generous off the tee, but with all the intricacy to ensure players wishing to be in the prizes needed all the shots. Huge congratulations to ex Touring Pro Josh White for his 67 and winning the gross, as well as nearest the pin leaving it inside an inch. [...]

August 2023

Preparing for an Open Championship – The Story of the 151st at Royal Liverpool

2023-08-29T18:00:08+00:00August 29th, 2023|Video|

We spent the week with Royal Liverpool links manager James Bledge on throughout the 151st Open Championship as well as on the lead up to the event. This film is chronicles the work by James and his team, as well as the volunteers from up and down the country who flocked to Royal Liverpool tto lend a hand. It's hard to understate just how much goes into preparing a links for golfs oldest major, but hopefully this film gives you some idea about the standards the team are working to, the hard work and sleepless nights that go into it [...]

July 2023

151st Open Championship: Royal Liverpool (Hoylake) – ‘Mighty Winds, Mighty Champions’

2023-07-10T13:09:12+00:00July 10th, 2023|151st Open, Video|

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

May 2023

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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