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2024 Spring Meeting at The Addington
The Addington Golf Club - Friday 31st May Limited Places Available For the last two years, The Spring Meeting has been the jewel in the CJ-crown, held at some truly exceptional venues, and this years instalment promises to be no different. In 2022 Pippa Bonsall left the field in her wake as she put together a great final round at Royal St George's with her partner Sam Clapham, and last year after a strong opening round at Moortown, Matthew Reid played lights-out golf down the stretch to win at Alwoodley. A taster from last years event can be found here The Addington began in 1913, and is somewhat unique in that it has always been a proprietarily owned club, as well as being the only Abercromby & Colt design in existence. The syndicate share ownership in the early days meant architect J.F. Abercromby was the resident 'benevolent dictator' where [...]
219 – Course Diaries Sunningdale Heath w/ Kristian Baker
Tom recently sat down with Kristian Baker, co-owner of Sunningdale Heath Golf Club. Sunningdale Heath is making great waves in short form golf. A par 58 measuring 3,700 yards, Sunningdale Heath really tests your iron game. VRSD, who have recently launched their own Kummel, have been working on their British concoction for over a year to bring some choice back to the Kummel market. For more on VRSD to head to their website where listeners of the podcast will receive a 25% discount on their order, simply use the code ‘COOKIEJAR” are checkout. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify! You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website Latest Products
218 – Year End Appraisals
Final episode of 2023 brings an exciting announcement. We are thrilled that FootJoy are officially partnering with us! An iconic brand, incredible products and a team that just really love golf! We all get together to talk about the highlights from the year. From the Netherlands series, to the series of get togethers and events throughout the year, the Walker Cup, The Open and AIG Women's and much much more. A bit of a 'back-slap' heavy episode with some appraisals at the end, but the biggest thanks go to our listeners and supporters who have encouraged us and helped us grow throughout 2023! We wish you all a very happy new year and we can't wait to bring you some even better stuff in 2024! VRSD, who have recently launched their own Kummel, have been working on their British concoction for over a year to bring some choice [...]
217 – Mik Wells
Golf course construction guru Mik Wells joins us this week to talk about his career in golf course construction, how that work has evolved in recent years as well as the influence he draws from the great golden age architects of yesteryear. Mik is such a fun person, we stayed wiht him up at the lodges in Cabot Highlands earlier this year and when we learnt he was over at Hinkley Golf Club doing some work to their bunkers during the off-season we couldn't resist going over for a bit of dinner and podcast! The work of Mik and the shapers are sometimes the most underrrated, the ability tio spoil any great concept or design, or equally bring to life something fairly mundane into some extraordinary. His latest project is building the new course at Cabot Highlands with architect Tom Doak and Clye Johnson, quite the task! In [...]
Cookie Crumbs #9 – Tom Coyne from Episode 012
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216 – Rollback Announcement
Sam, Tom & Bruce get together to recap the days major announcement from the USGA and the R&A related to the 'ODS' changes affecting golf ball performance. The latest rules will be implemented in 2028 (for elite players / tournament play only) giving manufacturers a healthy R&D window to perfect the ball which will now be tested at 125mph speeds, rather than the current 120mph level, with the same distance tolerance of 317 yards in place. In 2030 this will be implemented across all levels of the game and represents the biggest shift in equipment rules since the CoR changes which outlawed a number of drivers in 2005. The announcement follows the news in March that the USGA and the R&A were looking at a model local rule for specific tournaments where they could limit the distance the ball travels, and following a lot of pushback from various [...]
