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May 2024

2024 Spring Meeting at The Addington

2024-05-02T09:31:54+00:00May 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

The Addington Golf Club - Friday 31st May Limited Places Available For the last two years, The Spring Meeting has been the jewel in the CJ-crown, held at some truly exceptional venues, and this years instalment promises to be no different. In 2022 Pippa Bonsall left the field in her wake as she put together a great final round at Royal St George's with her partner Sam Clapham, and last year after a strong opening round at Moortown, Matthew Reid played lights-out golf down the stretch to win at Alwoodley. A taster from last years event can be found [...]

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November 2023

Criss-Crosland Heath

2023-11-24T10:52:55+00:00November 23rd, 2023|Blog|

'Criss-Crosland Heath', words by Sam One of the most rewarding parts of Cookie Jar is in finding really good, affordable golf and a recent scheduled visit to Meltham (West Yorkshire) to see a lifelong friend for an evening of drinks and a few holes the following morning created that possibility. When coming up with recommendations for golf on the Sunday morning I was staggered to see that Crosland Heath was only an 8 minute drive away (28 minutes factoring in the round trip to retrieve Jim’s car from the evening before which was left in nearby Holmfirth - the filming [...]

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June 2023

The Addington: Right where it needs to be, to become world class again

2023-07-02T09:09:15+00:00June 30th, 2023|Uncategorized|

  In September 2020, we recorded a podcast with Jasper Miners & Sam Cooper from @evalu18golf. The pandemic was raging and a certain character - Ryan Noades - had been sending out dossiers to the wider golfing community about a restoration to his course at somewhere called ‘The Addington’ in Croydon, only 10 miles outside of central London.   This promised to be one of the most daring and radical restorations Britain had ever seen, reverentially bringing back the great layout that Abercromby & Colt had left behind before the onset of WWII. On that podcast Jasper uttered the immortal words; [...]

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The Muddyman Torpedo: A Mid-Amateur Scratch Event (28th July)

2023-06-01T14:32:50+00:00June 1st, 2023|Blog|

'The Muddyman Torpedo ' Blackwell Golf Club Friday 28 July 2023 36 holes scratch medal  Mid Amateur event (aged 25 or over on 1.1.23) Those of you who follow our content know how passionate we are about the amateur game - particularly those great anecdotes and characters who sadly seem to be less common in today’s more professionalised, sanitised world of golf.  Well, in fighting for the true spirit of amateurism, we’re delighted to resurrect a famous event of the Blackwell calendar - The Muddyman Torpedo.  ‘The Torpedo’ was an annual contest hosted at Blackwell by one of the legendary [...]

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May 2023

Match Report: Spring Meeting MMXXIII

2023-05-18T08:42:45+00:00May 16th, 2023|Blog|

in partnership with   The second Cookie Jar Spring Meeting was held on the 10th & 11th May at Moortown and The Alwoodley Golf Club. A two day handicap Stableford competition for 33 supporters, friends, and golf obsessives.  Moortown & Alwoodley both hold a special place in the history of golf course architecture: Alwoodley being the first design by the great Dr Alister MacKenzie who would go on to work at Royal Melbourne, Cypress Point and Augusta National but not before Moortown which was his second creation and our first stop of the tour.  The story is well documented in [...]

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182 – Player Profile: Moe Norman w/ Lorne Rubenstein

2023-05-09T07:47:57+00:00May 9th, 2023|Golf History, Podcasts|

We sat down with decorated golf journalist and writer - Lorne Rubenstein - for our second Player Profile episode, chronicling the career of the legendary, enigmatic character: Moe Norman. Murray Irwin ‘’Moe’’ Norman was a professional golfer from Kitchener, Ontario. Self-taught, with a unique swing, demeanour and personality, as well as a god given skill for flushing the golf ball. He won nearly everything in his home country, was admired by his peers for the control he had over the ball and was once desired by Tiger Woods as being one of only two people to ever ’truly [...]

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181 – Golf history fails with Simon Haines

2023-05-09T07:41:37+00:00May 3rd, 2023|Golf History, Podcasts|

Show Notes from Podcast w/ Simon Haines on some of the great golf history fails  The genesis for this episode came on the 17th January. We had just released our first film from our series in The Netherlands, a homage to work of H.S Colt and his influence on the golfing landscape of Holland. Only 20 minutes after the film was published, Simon Haines - esteemed British golf course history expert - was in the WhatsApp’s suggesting the image we had used of Colt was indeed Vardon. Despite the immediate panic he assured us that this was a [...]

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April 2023

Masters Friday at Blackwell

2023-04-16T18:26:25+00:00April 16th, 2023|Video|

Our full match report from the event can be found here. Film from our first event of 2023, Masters Friday at Blackwell Golf Club. 44 players from across the country descended on the mIdlands for a traditional club lunch, 18 holes and an evening spent watching the action unfold at Augusta National. Wonderful event, and big congratulations to our winners: 1st Mark Edwards winning a custom fit TaylorMade driver 2nd Rob Griffiths on a playoff Saunders & Long MVP winner: Mike Harris for buying 4 bottles of champagne to celebrate each of his par's on the way round - truly [...]

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Match Report: Cookie Jar Masters Friday at Blackwell

2023-04-09T10:29:02+00:00April 9th, 2023|Blog|

The ‘Cookie Jar Masters Friday’ not only coincided with the Bank Holiday Good Friday, but also the best day of weather Britain had seen so far this year. Our 6th event and 4th ‘Mixer’, Masters Friday event saw 44 golfers from all over the country make a pilgrimage to Blackwell Golf Club for a traditional jacket & tie club lunch, 18 holes of golf and an evening of watching trees fall down at Augusta National.  Everyone congregated outside the clubhouse to take in their first healthy dose of Vitamin D, mingle and enjoy some drinks. The course was looking sharp [...]

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March 2023

Goswick Golf Club

2023-03-16T21:55:49+00:00March 16th, 2023|Video|

Back in October we visited Goswick Golf Club, lying on a remote strip of ground 30 miles north of Newcastle and 6 miles south of Berwick upon Tweed. We're delighted with how this film came out - a break from tradition from our usual films! Goswick is a club with a rich history dating back to 1890. The initial course has evolved over time, steadily stretching northwards with the involvement of James Braid, Willie Park Jnr and more recently Mackenzie & Ebert. Because its slightly off the beaten path, not enough spotlight goes to clubs like Goswick, Seaton Carew or [...]

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