Guests of the Pod
161 – ‘The Uncorrupted Pleasure of an Old Bladed Putter’: James Ellis-Caird
‘Creating space to play more freely’, is an economical but potent way to describe this professional turned author and his approach to the game. James Ellis-Caird (aka @rewildingthegolfer) debut book after a career coaching and working as a PGA professional; ‘The Uncorrupted Pleasure of an Old Bladed Putter’ is not just beautifully put together and well illustrated, but nostalgic, thought provoking and helpful in equal measure. His series of golfing fables bring to life so many of the game’s pitfalls and help us take a refreshing look at things through the eyes of his clients….Make sure you get a copy of this book for Christmas! hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast earlier on today we managed to sit down with James Ellis cared who's a PGA professional and author of the uncorrupted pleasure of an old bladed putter a new book that's just [...]
160 – Martin Ayers
Bruce & Sam speak to Australian Tour Pro and Coach Martin Ayers. Martin has shared some fascinating stories from his junior, collegiate and professional playing career, and how his mindset has changed over the years. Martin has a refreshing take on ‘the swing’ and why the shape / motion is not as important as we all believe. Some great stories in here from his playing days with Grant Waite as well as his time coaching Steve Ellington.Make sure to follow Martin on Twitter and subscribe to his YouTube channel to learn more about his unique philosophy hello and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast Sam here just wanted to put a really quick cover note on this podcast we sat down with Martin Ayers last week Martin is a former tour pro basically in Australia um coach coaches a number of players specializes in coaching players who've been [...]
Match Report: The Crump Cup of British Indoor Golf
Our second annual Christmas Party was held at Urban Golf on the 8th December at Smithfields in London, and what a wonderful way to celebrate a great year of golf with like minded souls. A bitterly cold winters’ day, with the rail strikes planned didn’t dent peoples enthusiasm with Tom & Sam both turning up late for their own party to be met with crowds of faces, some familiar and some enjoying their first Cookie Jar event. A link to our film from the evening can be found here This was however the first time we played competitively. An excitable James Day had pitched the idea of a one-club knockout - to be billed as ‘The Crump Cup of British Indoor Golf’ - earlier in October, however after (a frankly unnecessary) number of phone calls to finesse the idea, we realised the initial format he was proposing would have taken [...]
159 – Clyde Johnson: When Shaping meets Architecture
After getting an absolute 'hosing on' at Moortown Golf Club in the morning we took refuge in the Billiard Room to dry off, play some snooker and record a podcast with Clyde Johnson. Clyde works independently in the UK helping to restore the original character of many of the famous courses in the British Isles including Moortown, Alwoodley and Denham, as well as working for Tom Doak's firm 'Renaissance Golf Design' on all sorts of other exciting projects. In here we talk about his career path, his love for the game, his work at some notable new build projects like Tara Iti, St Patrick's Links and the most recent Te Arai. Clyde is extremely knowledgable and we could have sat there all afternoon if we didn't have a long drive ahead of us! For more on Clyde head over to http://www.cunningolfdesign.com/about are you looking at Orange like you're a [...]
158 – John McLoughlin: Leadership in Greenkeeping
Course Manager at Wallasey Golf Club - John McLoughlin - joins us for a chat about his career, what has led him to working back on The Wirral and his philosophy on greenkeeping. It's a frank and refreshing take on his role with a focus on leadership, marginal gains and brilliant basics! Much of it sounds like something you would normally find in management consulting, except John is applying it to his work on the course! We had a great day at Wallasey with John, learning more about the history at the club; the creation of the Stableford system by Dr Frank Stableford, Bobby Jones and his time there in 1930, as well the course and the work that they are beginning to embark on with the help of CDP so John welcome back the podcast a repeat second one yeah how you feeling yeah uh privileged yeah [...]
157 – The Original 12 Holes at Prestwick with Ken Goodwin and Dave Edmondson
On the 162nd anniversary of the first ever Open Championship at Prestwick Golf Club, we chat through the original 12 hole course, that Tom was lucky enough to play. We talk to club Secretary Ken Goodwin and course manager Dave Edmondson about reviving the routing and the efforts that have gone into it. and welcome back to another episode of the cookie jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and today I'm joined by Sam Williams and today we're not doing a Sam plays golf Tom played golf today Tom plays golf pressed once I was absolutely gutted I would say Wednesday this week was the most gutting day ever known that you were doing that and we were going to talk about it but the one 50th open celebration obviously the 1860 open at presswick uh the the work they've done to to build that 12-hole course as [...]
