March 2023

177 – Player Profiles: George Knudson with Lorne Rubenstein

2023-03-16T21:37:31+00:00March 16th, 2023|Bruce's favourites, Players, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Decorated golf writer, journalist and friend of George's - Lorne Rubenstein - joins the podcast for the first in a new series of podcasts as we delve deeper into understanding some of the more fascinating but often less talked about players throughout history. In this special episode of our podcast, where we're going to dive into the life and career of Canadian golf legend George Knudson. In this episode, we're joined by Lorne Rubenstein, a renowned golf journalist and author who collaborated with Knudson on his classic book "Natural Golf Swing." We'll discuss Knudson's obsession with Ben Hogan, [...]

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August 2021

099 – Babe Didrikson Zaharias: The Life & Legend w/ Susan Cayleff

2021-08-31T19:03:27+00:00August 24th, 2021|Golf History, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

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 way like no one else, and set records which still stand today. Susan Cayleff is a pulitzer prize nominee who has dedicated endless time to researching and documenting Babe's career, and this podcast gives you some colour and context around the rich tapestry of her life. Sadly, babe died [...]

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March 2021

075 – H.S.Colt w/ Frank Pont & Ed Cartwright (Clayton, DeVries & Pont)

2021-03-18T13:50:39+00:00March 18th, 2021|Golf Course Architecture, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

Bruce & Sam catch up with the gang at Clayton, DeVries & Pont again, this time to talk to Frank & Ed about the life and work of Harry Colt. In many ways, Harry Colt was the first professional golf course architect and created the profession as we know it today. Debuting with his work at Rye at a young age, he would go on to be the most prolific and arguably most influential figures in golf course design in history with over 250 courses of his own. Frank is one of the worlds leading experts on Golden [...]

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February 2021

065 – Ronan Rafferty

2023-03-30T10:22:24+00:00February 4th, 2021|Bruce's favourites, Players, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

We had a blast chatting with Ronan about his career,  with all the war stories from his time on the European Tour. In this monster 2-hour podcast we also got to talk about Ronan’s time in the Ryder Cup, narrowly missing out on the Claret Jug to Nick Price, as well as all his adventures growing up around the game which saw him playing top level amateur golf from a very young age! We think all of our podcasts are good - but none more so than this one! Enjoy hello and welcome back to the cookie [...]

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December 2020

055 – Playing all Top 100 Golf Courses in the World w/ David Davis (Pt 2)

2021-02-15T08:54:09+00:00December 6th, 2020|Golf Course Architecture, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

In Part 2 we possibly have the greatest story ever told on the Cookie Jar Golf podcast.... but you'll have to wait till the end! We also get to hear about David's visits to Pine Valley, how to attack fresh golf course you've never played as well as golf in The Netherlands. From Ardfin to Bandon, Silloth to Noordwijkse - its all in here! Hope you enjoy!

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October 2020

047 – Golf Stats & Data With Lou Stagner

2021-02-13T19:20:49+00:00October 20th, 2020|Behind the Scenes, Podcasts, Sam's favourites|

We’ve been looking forward to this for some time! Lou is a self confessed golf nut and data nerd, and through his work with Scott Fawcett and DECADE he has an immense level of understanding of the stats surrounding the professional and amateur game! This is a great insight into the numbers behind the game of golf, with some shocking stuff around how to better use stats in your own game as well as the fine margins that separate the worlds best from the rest of the professional golfers. We hope you enjoy, and maybe take a few [...]

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June 2020

028 – A Brief History of Course Design

2021-02-13T19:24:33+00:00June 9th, 2020|Bruce's favourites, Golf Course Architecture, Golf History, Podcasts, Sam's favourites, Tom's favourites|

From the ban on the game by James II, all the way to the new age designs we enjoy today, we get together to try and piece together the history of golf course architecture from the beginning. As long time fans of great courses, with next to no prior knowledge we each take an era, research like mad, and try to find out why the trademarks of those era’s are so different! 

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April 2020

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