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140 – Live from St. Andrews: The greatest shots every played in The Open
Dan Davies pops by St. Andrews Jar HQ aka The Scores Hotel to discuss an article he helped pen about the greatest shot ever played at The Open with a little help from the data gurus over at Clippd. Check out the article and enjoy - https://www.clippd.com/post/the-greatest-open-shot Latest Products
139 – Live from St. Andrews: The Atmosphere
Tom & Bruce discuss the atmosphere here at St. Andrews on Tuesday of Open week. The whole town is buzzing, and we’re getting caught up in the excitement! Latest Products
138 – Live from St. Andrews: Wallasey Course Manager – John Mcloughlin
In a series of micro pods we are going to run live from St. Andrews at the 150th Open, we are here on the Monday and bumped into Wallasey Course Manager John Mcloughlin. John and Tom got talking about the condition of the course and there are not many people that would know more about course conditioning than John. Latest Products
137 – Stephen Proctor: The Long Golden Afternoon
Historian, writer and Herbert Warren-Wind shortlisted author Stephen Proctor joins the podcast this week to talk about the release of his second book - The Long Golden Afternoon. Charting the events around golfs ultimate boom period following the death of Young Tommy Morris right through to the advent of WWI, the book is a fascinating read to really understand one of the most significant (and often much less talked about) periods in history. Starting with John Ball jr of Hoylake becoming the first Englishman and Amateur to win The Open in 1890, right through to the Great Triumverate and the success of many others, it's a cracking book. I firm recommendation from The Jar to add this to your golf library - the link can be found below. Stephen is a fabulous guest, incredibly knowledgeable and articulates history in such a captivating way! AMAZON: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Golden-Afternoon-Golfs-1864-1914/dp/1913759040 Latest [...]
136 – Eclectic 18 – Richard Pennell
Another special guest joins the pod for his Eclectic 18... this week it's the turn of Richard Pennell. Someone who has grown up around the game and spent much of his career working at them - often at some of the mopst storied and historuc clubs in Surrey. Richard left his role at Woking last year to give himself more time to writer about the game he loves and his blog 'Stymied' can be found here: https://richardpennell.substack.com/ Richard's writings are wonderfully nostalgic and remind us how much beauty there is to golf and the wonderful variety it offers! His scorecard isn't bad either; Hole 1: Royal North Devon (Westward Ho!) Hole 2: Tandridge Hole 3: Wenvoe Castle Hole 4: Rye Hole 5 : Painswick Hole 6: Royal Cinque Ports Hole 7: Hankley Common Hole 8: Hayling Hole 9: West Byfleet Hole 10: Woking (the 10th Simpson designed which [...]
135 – Course Diaries: RNGC w/ Dan Davies
Amateur course architect, career golf writer and full time racontuer Dan Davies joined the podcast to talk about the founding of RNGC. England's latest and hotly anticipated new build course. Measuring just 510 yards, this 9 hole short course is shrinking the game! We caught up with Dan to chat about his career and what drove him to spend 11 months building a course in his back garden!For more on Dan, check out McKellar journals where he has written some fabulous pieces and of course The Sounder journal: https://soundergolf.com/blogs/journal/shrinking-the-game Latest Products
134 – LIV at Centurion – Day 2 from the Ground
Sam & Tom dissect day 2 from Centurion from the ground. We talk fan experience, shotgun start, team dynamics and absolutely do not talk politics. Latest Products
133 – General Catch Up & LIV Golf Series
The boys are back together rounding out a hectic month. Too much time on the golf course and not enough time behind the mic’s! We celebrate Bruce’s 27th birthday, and reflect on a magical few days on the Kent coast for the Spring Meeting a few weeks back. More importantly though we look ahead to the 150th Open at St Andrew’s as well as the inaugural event from the LIV golf series this weekend at Centurion. Whatever your views are on the emerging new series, it’s certainly going to be an interesting week! Latest Products
132 – Course Diaries: Dunbar
Course Diaries from Dunbar recorded in the hotel lobby of the Marine at North Berwick! That explains some of the subtle chill out music in the background or the occasional jangling of cutlery! We had a wonderful morning at a Renaissance with Jason & 2013 Scottish amateur champion Zander Culverwell, and felt compelled to talk about it! so welcome back to the cookie jar golf podcasting um we're in the marine and Lawn Hotel it's embarrassing we're in the lobby because everyone's on the golf course aren't they so this is embarrassing why are we doing this this hello and welcome back to the cookie jar golf podcast I am Tom Mills and today I'm joined by my friend Sam Williams Thomas it's a pleasure to be here where are we sat well I think we're gonna leave that stupid intro and yeah we are sat in the [...]
131 – Eclectic 18: Rob McGuirk – Prince’s Golf Club
We sat down with Rob McGuirk - general manager at Prince’s golf club while we were in Kent for our Spring Meeting to talk about his career in the game, the evolution of Prince’s and of course his rather spicy Eclectic 18! Rob has a fascinating history with the game, growing up playing to a high standard, turning professional and competing for a living, and more recently running Prince's! his scorecard is a mouthwatering one;#1 Brora#2 Pine Valley#3 Royal County Down #4 Swinley Forest#5 Royal Portrush#6 Royal St. George's#7 Sunningdale (old)#8 Las Brisas#9 Golspie#10 Valderrama#11 TPC Sawgrass#12 St George's Hill#13 Merion (east)#14 Royal Dornoch#15 Prince's (Shore & Dunes)#16 Bayonne#17 National Golf Links fo American#18 The Old CoursePar - 72 / Yardage - 6,631 Latest Products
