Guests of the Pod
151st Open Championship: Royal Liverpool (Hoylake) – ‘Mighty Winds, Mighty Champions’
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
188 – Evolution of Hoylake with Joe McDonnell
Tom sits down with good friend of the podcast Joe McDonnell to chat through the evolution of Hoylake, through its ground breaking origins, Harry Colt changes and the new changes. Many mins ago, we stated the Royal Liverpool are progressive traditionalists, let’s dive deeper and find out why. Latest Products
Cookie Crumbs #4 – Mike Clayton talks through the brief history of GCA from episode 022
Mike talks through the transformation of golf course architecture from the earliest professionals to the renaissance in golf course architecture. Latest Products
187 – Course Diaries: Traigh Golf Club w/ David Shaw-Stewart
Sam & Tom sat down with David Shaw-Stewart, the owner of Traigh golf club to chat through all things 9-holer. It’s safe to say, this little place stole our hearts. A lovely, quirky 9 hole layout that you can whip round in no time, endlessly loop and never get bored. Latest Products
186 – Tour Diaries – The Outer Hebrides
Sam and Tom chronicle their journey across the Outer Hebrides in a van. Five days , eight courses and a product shoot. Very busy indeed. The courses we visited were: Southerness Carradale Machrahanish Dunaverty Traigh Askernish Stornoway Isle of Harris Latest Products
The Addington: Right where it needs to be, to become world class again
In September 2020, we recorded a podcast with Jasper Miners & Sam Cooper from @evalu18golf. The pandemic was raging and a certain character - Ryan Noades - had been sending out dossiers to the wider golfing community about a restoration to his course at somewhere called ‘The Addington’ in Croydon, only 10 miles outside of central London. This promised to be one of the most daring and radical restorations Britain had ever seen, reverentially bringing back the great layout that Abercromby & Colt had left behind before the onset of WWII. On that podcast Jasper uttered the immortal words; ‘’If you don’t know about The Addington now, you will know about it in 5 years time because it will be world class. It’s a sensational golf course, but because they haven't touched it or messed with it, it’s actually right where it needs to be to become world class [...]
