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 [...]

Sam meets with Richard Fisher - club archivist and author of the St David’s history book - to discuss the history of the club, the area and its members. As a professional historian, it should come as no surprise that Richard is a cracking guest and talks brilliantly about the [...]

Bruce, Sam & Tom discuss the major news of the weekend Sam following the Lytham trophy on the final day - coupled with some big news coming out of Blackwell! 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 [...]

Part II of our podcast from Moortown card room with golf psychologist to some of the worlds best players, Duncan McCarthy.  Duncan has an interesting story in the game, which involved p[laying Euro Pro golf, and more recently working with the likes of Mel Reid, Marcus Armitage, Erik van Rooyen [...]

Tom & Sam are joined by Ryan Noades, the managing director of the Addington to talk through their recent trip the USA - part 2. We cover all things from Ohoopee to Tree Farm, travel to America and stories that follow us around. If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave [...]

1st up from our travels in America is a course diaries episode with the man behind The Tree Farm - Zac Blair. How Zac finds time to develop a course and club with Kye Goalby & Tom Doak around a busy schedule playing on thePGA Tour is a mystery, but [...]

Sam & Tom catch up after yet another week on holiday for Tom. We cover all the main pieces of news from the world of golf including the remarkable win by Nick Dunlap in the American Express, as well as the ongoing fit out of the new Cookie Jar offices.  [...]

Sam, Tom & Bruce catch up briefly to talk through the latest happenings. Sam & Tom - severely jet lagged and operating on 30% after their whirlwind trip of Georgia & South Carolina, and Bruce back to the grind with work and coming off the back of the presidents putter.  [...]

Sam sits down with owner of National club Golfer - Tom Irwin - to talk about the history of Alwoodley Golf Club.   The first design by Dr Alister Mackenzie who was part of a group of members that founded the club, how it came into being is one of [...]