Events
Christmas Party 2025
Join us this festive season for the Cookie Jar Golf Christmas Party at Skratch Golf in Birmingham. On Thursday 11th December, from 6:30 to 8:30, we’ll take over the bays (and bar) for an evening of golf, booze, and our annual festive chinwag. Afterwards, we’ll move on to a few bars nearby for more action, if you're brave enough. It’s a relaxed way to wrap up the year - some friendly competition and great conversation, all rolled into one evening. No cost, just good vibes. Please RSVP below and share with the other golf nuts in your life. We’ll be in touch closer to the time with all the details:
Previous Events
(Optional) Retro Day at Reigate Heath – 23rd May 2025
Please note that this event is now an optional Retro Day, with prizes up for grabs for both the overall and the best score with retro clubs. Back by popular demand, our second Retro Day of the year takes us to the brilliant Reigate Heath. This superb 9-hole course, with two sets of tees for variety across 18 holes, promises an afternoon of nostalgic golf. For just £60, enjoy golf followed by a BBQ beneath the iconic windmill, accompanied by beers and some prizes. For those brave enough, dust off your Ben Sayers blades and Pringle jumpers, as pre-1999 clothing and equipment will add some unique fun to what will be a brilliant day. But if you want to keep your new Titleist sticks and FootJoy clothes in play, then you're more than welcome to do that too. For a taste of what’s in store, check out our last [...]
Afternoon Tee at Formby Ladies – 22nd August 2025
Our day at Formby Ladies was everything we hoped for and more. The course, a 5,300-yard heathland gem, was in brilliant condition. Fast greens, firm fairways, and that unmistakable Formby charm around every corner. We kicked things off in the newly refurbished clubhouse with a proper afternoon tea, which set the tone perfectly for a relaxed and friendly day out. Out on the course, there was plenty of good golf, a few heroic escapes from the heather, and a lot of laughs along the way. A reminder of exactly why Formby Ladies is one of our absolute favourites. Welcoming, beautifully kept, and full of character. A cracking day from start to finish.
Autumn Meeting at Little Aston – 24th September 2025
Our visit to Little Aston was one for the books. The Colt/Vardon layout was in superb condition and served up just the right balance of challenge and charm. After the morning round, we settled into the clubhouse for a proper jacket-and-tie lunch. The food was spot on, the conversation even better, and the atmosphere exactly what you’d hope for from a classic golf club. The day wrapped up with our much-anticipated putting knockout on Little Aston’s famous green. It was competitive, hilarious, and surprisingly tense at times. A huge thanks to everyone who joined us. Great golf, great company, and a putting finale we’ll be talking about for a while.
Afternoon at Sunningdale Heath – 3rd October 2025
Sunningdale Heath may be a par 58, but don’t be fooled – it’s a real long iron test and far from easy despite the yardage. Designed by Harry Colt, this charming course offers a quick round, typically wrapped up in just 2.5 hours, leaving plenty of time to enjoy the best bacon roll in the game and a bit of cornhole afterwards. The event was so much fun last year, we had to do it again. All this for just £50 – a perfect afternoon. For a taste of what’s in store, check out our last year’s event here. Cost: £50
An Afternoon at Sunningdale Heath
Some highlights from a wonderful afternoon at Sunningdale Heath. 36 golfers assembled for some drinks, fourball golf with rounds completed in well under 3 hours and the finest bacon sandwich in the business. Congratulations to Elaine who took the spoils and Peter Handcock as lowest gross with 58. Despite its short length, we firmly believe that Sunningdale Heath offers golfers of all abilities a test and more often than not, requires you to hit far more shots in the bag! For more on Sunningdale Heath, check out their website or Instagram page. https://youtu.be/HMzs3W1-rVY
The Addington: Cookie Jar Spring Meeting MMXXIV
Film from our first event of 2024, the much-anticipated Spring Meeting! Epic day at The Addington, not only one of Britain's most storied golf clubs but also undergoing the most bold and daring restorations under the stewardship of Ryan Noades, guided by Clayton DeVries & Pont. For more on The Addington, head to their socials @addingtongc or their website... or even better, check out the two-part Course Diaries podcast we have just released! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt5_Dt25Ocw&t=83s
#FeelTheJoy Summer Mixer: Blackwell, July 2024
Film from our wonderful day at Blackwell hosted in partnership with @FootJoy 18 holes of stableford golf, an excellent liquid lunch and some afternoon foursomes! Huge thanks to everyone who came and made it so special, to Blackwell for being the perfect venue and of course, our friends at FootJoy for providing everyone with some fresh wheels in the morning Friday's don't come much better! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7cwXACxiAE&t=88s
CJG x Sounder Golf Retro Extravaganza: West Byfleet Golf Club
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. Bernie Scotland won the nett, despite his son Zane playing with 'his irons' in the event! Thanks again to West Byfleet and Sounder Golf for helping make this event possible, as well as everyones generosity for providing clubs to Entebbe Golf Club in Uganda to help support the growth of [...]
Spring Meeting MMXXIII at Moortown & The Alwoodley Golf Club
Our 2023 Spring Meeting was held at Moortown & The Alwoodley Golf Club on the 10th & 11th May. A celebration of the early work by the great Dr Alister MacKenzie who designed and laid out the courses in Leeds. Alwoodley was his maiden attempt and nervous members - keen to find out whether their money was going to good use - appointed HS Colt to come and check the work by this physician turned architect. Not long after, MacKenzie was part of the group of founding memebrs at Moortown looking to establish a course less than a mile from Alwoodley. He built the now 10th hole 'Gibraltar' and accepted nominations from prospective members hoping to raise the funds to build 9 holes. it was so successful that funding was sufficient to build a full 18 hole course and since then, the position of these two courses in the history [...]
Masters Friday at Blackwell
Our full match report from the event can be found here. Film from our first event of 2023, Masters Friday at Blackwell Golf Club. 44 players from across the country descended on the mIdlands for a traditional club lunch, 18 holes and an evening spent watching the action unfold at Augusta National. Wonderful event, and big congratulations to our winners: 1st Mark Edwards winning a custom fit TaylorMade driver 2nd Rob Griffiths on a playoff Saunders & Long MVP winner: Mike Harris for buying 4 bottles of champagne to celebrate each of his par's on the way round - truly heroic! https://youtu.be/g4ZXJgPKMJM
