May 2025

214 – Course Diaries: Alwoodley w/ Tom Irwin

2025-05-29T19:19:47+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Sam sits down with owner of National club Golfer - Tom Irwin - to talk about the history of Alwoodley Golf Club.   The first design by Dr Alister Mackenzie who was part of a group of members that founded the club, how it came into being is one of the great stories in golf club history. A link to our Story of a Golf Club film can be found here (https://youtu.be/F9dmeL8nb18) If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cookiejargolf/?hl=en) / [...]

208 – David Bonsall

2025-05-29T19:19:33+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

From our time up in St Andrews for the Walker Cup, Sam & Bruce sit down with David Bonsall to talk about his work in the game, from university golf, to working on the R&A rules committee and bringing in a modernised version of the rules back in 2019.   in addition to an impressive legal and finance career, David has dedicated a number of years to helping the game of golf in administrative capacity and was also the referee responsible for the 17 minute long episode on the range at Royal Birkdale back in 2017, when Jordan Spieth went [...]

203 – Course Diaries: Worcestershire Golf Club

2025-05-29T19:19:22+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

We sit down with friend GCA guru and member of The Worcestershire - David Thomas - to hear more about the history of the oldest club in our own county.   Golf goes all the way back in Malvern to the 1870’s and a young H.S. Colt lived here from the age of 2, meaning this is where it all began for the young man who would go on to become one of the most influential course architect in history. Mackenzie would later become the course architect when the club moved site in the 1920’s, and Colt despite being a [...]

201 – Course Diaries: Les Bordes

2025-05-29T19:19:18+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Sam & Bruce catch up with Jack Laws, Director of Golf at Les Bordes in France.   Les Bordes has recently made some big waves with the introduction of the The New course designed by Gil Hanse, as well as the exceptional short course, ‘The Wild Piglet’, complimenting the Old Course by Robert von Hagge in the late 20th century. We were very lucky to get to visit the club a few months back, experience it all first hand and hear about what goes in to creating a magical luxe golf experience!   For more on Les Bordes head to [...]

195 – Mike Clayton w/ cameo appearances

2025-05-29T19:19:04+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Never turn a change down to sit down with Clayts to talk about the game. On Open Sunday we caught up with him to talk about the projects he is working on with CDP, the equipment rollback, and golf in England. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cookiejargolf/?hl=en) / Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cookiejargolf/) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/cookiejargolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) / YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMcSQBY7eIq1q9DTC50QoA) / Website (https://cookiejargolf.com/)   https://youtu.be/mOegvIvqLwc

194 – 151st Open from Hoylake – The Final Roundup

2025-05-29T19:19:00+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Tom & Sam sit down to roundup the tournament at Royal Liverpool Golf Club for the 150th Open.  If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cookiejargolf/?hl=en) / Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cookiejargolf/) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/cookiejargolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) / YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMcSQBY7eIq1q9DTC50QoA) / Website (https://cookiejargolf.com/)   https://youtu.be/NT45s8SqH3U

Cookie Crumbs #3 – Iona Stephen and her astonishing route into golf from episode 014

2025-05-29T19:18:41+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Sky Sports presenter Iona Stephen talks through  her astonishing ascension through the age of golf and the injury that prevented her from progressing further. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cookiejargolf/?hl=en) / Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cookiejargolf/) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/cookiejargolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) / YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMcSQBY7eIq1q9DTC50QoA) / Website (https://cookiejargolf.com/)   https://youtu.be/P1paawKuzIk

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

2025-05-29T19:18:37+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

A look back at the first chat we had with David Cannon talking about photography at the majors and getting the best photographs.  If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/cookiejargolf/?hl=en) / Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/cookiejargolf/) / Twitter (https://twitter.com/cookiejargolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) / YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTMcSQBY7eIq1q9DTC50QoA) / Website (https://cookiejargolf.com/)   https://youtu.be/_pKx60ZJRGQ

182 – Player Profile: Moe Norman w/ Lorne Rubenstein

2025-05-29T19:18:35+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

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 own their [...]

169 – Course Diaries: Utrechtse Golf Club De Pan w/ archivist Ernst van den Doel

2025-05-29T16:12:44+00:00May 29th, 2025|Video|

Our first course diaries episode from 2023 comes from the world renown Utrecht De Pan. One of the finest inland courses in continental Europe and the product of Colt's genius, we got to sit down with club archivist and neurologist Ernst van den Doel. As well as the club and course we also talk about the evolution of golf in The Netherlands / Holland, the primitive game 'Colf' which is still played in bars around The Netherlands today, and the game more generally.  Huge thanks of course go to FootJoy as our series sponsor for helping make this possible! If [...]

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