After an enormous career first for Richard Bland at The Belfry last week, Sam & Bruce went on a field trip to play it in tournament condition. We give our honest take on the course, as well as talking about the much anticipated PGA this weekend at Kiawah Island.  If [...]

Today the lads get together to review the Castle Course at St. Andrews, chat through the Scottish open and preview the upcoming 149th Open at Royal St. George’s.  If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-cookie-jar-golf-podcast/id1493651992) or Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/2RhNTEu1xA3I4QpUlHBt8H) ! You can follow us [...]

Bruce gives us insight from the ground, Tom offers some love for Louis and Spieth, & Sam brings some conjecture. We couldn’t let the anticipated Open Championship  go by without a quick recap pod. A great week, with lots of sub plots, gaffe’s and some incredibly strong golf around Royal [...]

Short & sharp round up of the weekends events at Torrey Pines and Rahm's first Major victory! Podding 'live' from Cruden Bay on our latest Scotland leg in partnership with Where Golf Began! Make sure you hit the subscribe button, and stay up to date with some awesome podcasts in [...]

Bruce & Tom had the opportunity to sit down with World renowned architect Martin Ebert from MacKenzie & Ebert. We talk through his route into golf course architecture, history of the great architects and courses that Martin has been working on. Having learnt his craft with Donald Steel, Martin and [...]

In this episode of Course Diaries, Tom & Sam visit Sunningdale Heath Golf Club in Surrey. It will take you only five minutes of this podcast to realise how taken we were with this place. Fantastic feel to a fantastic golf club.  If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us [...]

A guest we’ve been excited to have on for ages, Geoff needs little introduction. We wanted to hear about Geoff’s route in to golf, how his passion has evolved and where his views may stem from, as well as talking about the crossroads the game is currently at with pace [...]

Episode 100 is a course diaries feature from Bruce & Sam's time down at Burnham & Berrow, playing foursomes golf in the Brent Knoll Bowl. Incredible fun out on the links in arguably the purest form of the game... We talk about the course, the influence of the early greats [...]

A round up from our time at Worcester Golf & Country Club. Originally laid out by Alister MacKenzie in the 1920’s, it’s exactly the sort of Golden Age wonder you can easily skip past when you focus on the trophy links courses around the UK. Was really cool getting off [...]

Babe Zaharias is a figure in the game with a career that is quite simply incredible. Her story is one of enormous achievement, not just in the game of golf but as a multi-discipline athlete. She overcame sexism and prejudice, she challenged stereotypes, she influenced the women's game in a [...]