Guests of the Pod
172 – Eclectic 18: Sam Cooper
During lockdown in 2020, Sam & his wife Harriet embarked on the unthinkable task of playing all links course in Britain. They created a live-in van which would serve as their tour bus, and set off in search of sandy soil on some of the most remote stretches of British coastline. Amazingly, after 3 years he completed his task and with a book on the way and his inspiration now feeding his work as a partner for Clayton DeVries & Pont as an architect, he sat own with us to record an Eclectic 18. this one however is with the courses that fly under the radar. Green fees of no more than £100 and some of the most sensational holes you have probably never heard of. Sit back and enjoy!His scorecard is below#1 - Brora#2 - Traigh#3 - Wallasey#4 - Kilspindie#5 - Isle of Purbeck#6 - Shiskine#7 - Askernish#8 [...]
171 – Netherlands Tour Pod Part 2
The second instalment of our two part tour podcast from The Netherlands. our time at Kennemer, Norrdwijkse, and Koninklijke Haagsche (just go with Royal Hague - much easier to pronounce)!Appreciate this is a beast of an episode and only Joe Rogan can really get away with 3 hour podcasts, hence why we broke it into two chunks!Big thanks to our series sponsor Footjoy for making this trip a reality, our friends in The Netherlands and of course the clubs who supported this and allowed us to bring you all this content! hello and welcome back to another episode of Jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and today we are looking at parttwo of our tour Roundup this again is part of the Netherlands series contentwhich comprises of seven films that we're going to be releasing on YouTube and a number of podcasts to go with it again a [...]
170 – Netherlands Tour Pod Part 1
First instalment of our two part tour podcast from The Netherlands. We talk about why we went to visit the Dutch courses, the adventures on getting there, the rounds and the courses themselves and a few good stories along the way. We talk about Rye, Eindhovensche Golf & Utrechtse Golfclub De Pan. Pt II will be with you on Thursday morning, so you won't have to wait long! Appreciate this is a beast of an episode and only Joe Rogan can really get away with 3 hour podcasts! Big thanks to our series sponsor Footjoy for making this trip a reality, our friends in The Netherlands and of course the clubs who supported this and allowed us to bring you all this content! hello and welcome back to the cookie jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and this is going to be the tour film Roundup [...]
Netherlands Series: Utrechtse Golfclub De Pan
https://youtu.be/2t_SiN9c1a0 Our second instalment from our Netherlands Tour in partnership with FootJoy at the end of 2022 takes us to Utrecht Golf Club - 'De Pan' - situated just 15 minutes outside of the student city of Utrecht. Utrecht Golf Club is regarded as one of the great inland layouts in continental Europe and consistently ranked inside the top 100 course in the world. Our Netherlands series will see us cover 5 courses, with a 2 part tour film, as well as 5 course films, podcasts from the clubs, photography on our social and of course some editorial over on our blog! Follow along to make sure you don't miss a beat! Details of series below; 17 JAN: Eindhoven Golf Club 24 JAN: Utrecht Golf Club De Pan 31 JAN: Netherlands Tour Film pt I 7 FEB: Kennemer Golf & Country Club 14 FEB: Noordwijkse Golf Club 21 FEB: [...]
Netherlands Tour Film pt I
https://youtu.be/Cebb913NPr8 The first instalment of our tour film from The Netherlands includes a Rye-some at Rye, Bruce driving through the night to Ghent, Eindhovensche Golf, Utrechtse Golf Club De Pan, a lost laptop, camera and a flat tyre! 48 hours of sheer adventure! Our Netherlands series will see us cover 5 courses, with a 2 part tour film, as well as 5 course films, podcasts from the clubs, photography on our social and of course some editorial over on our blog! Follow along to make sure you don't miss a beat! Details of series below; 17 JAN: Eindhoven Golf Club 24 JAN: Utrecht Golf Club De Pan 31 JAN: Netherlands Tour Film pt I 7 FEB: Kennemer Golf & Country Club 14 FEB: Noordwijkse Golf Club 21 FEB: Royal Hague 28 FEB: Netherlands Tour Film pt II A huge thank you to our series partner FootJoy for making this [...]
169 – Course Diaries: Utrechtse Golf Club De Pan w/ archivist Ernst van den Doel
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! hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and today we are bringing you the second podcast from our Netherlands series this is coupled with a film we're going to be releasing this evening the utrecht's golf club De [...]
