Cookie Jar Golf
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A British take on current affairs in the world of golf. Some of it interesting, most of it not.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Golf architecture, playing experience and club life meet in conversations that notice both strategic detail and the stories surrounding the game.
The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast treats golf as a game shaped by courses, club culture and the stories players carry away from both. The hosts move comfortably between close discussion of Sunningdale's strategic changes, memories of specific holes at courses such as TPC Sawgrass, and…
Watford Gap gets the microphone, and your golf obsession gains an unlikely service-station annex.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded portrait of Hollins and Pasatiempo that keeps the course history vivid, even when the golf talk runs a little thick.
This episode frames Marion Hollins as more than a golf name. It follows her as a force behind Pasatiempo, with Alister MacKenzie tied into the story, and Emily Chorba helps anchor the club history so Hollins feels lived in rather than memorialized.
A warm, rambling look at Pete Dye’s early life, with a quiet pause for David Maher.
This episode opens with a quiet tribute to David Maher, then settles into Pete Dye’s early life in golf. That shape works. It feels loose without getting lost, and the best stretches come from the family tension around Dye’s temper, the childhood putter-in-a-tree story, and the…
A relaxed golf conversation that shows how the modern game has changed.
Ian Baker-Finch's conversation starts with coffee and settles into a calm case for how golf has changed: more money, more fitness, more depth, and more athletes entering the game.
A compact club history piece where the land, the archives, and the local ties all matter.
Wallasey Golf Club feels like a place with a lot more behind it than a course. The talk moves through the club's history, the land it sits on, and the local links to shipping families, a church, a hospital, a railway stop, and the boat on the logo, tied back to early shipping…
A detailed Pasatiempo conversation that treats contour, restoration, and shot value as the main story.
The piece keeps Pasatiempo at the center, but it is really about Jim Urbina's path into golf architecture. He traces that path through Pete Dye, Plum Creek in Castle Rock, and an early start that came before he had even played golf or cared much about it.
A service-station golf chat that turns the renovation into a lively debate about the old and new courses.
The service-station setup gives this golf discussion an immediate hook, but the main pull is the back-and-forth over how the old and new courses ask different things of a player.
Pete Dye is cast as a designer who treated fairness as optional and weather as part of the job.
Pete Dye comes through as someone who turned golf into a conversation about fairness, weather, and design. The episode moves from his pre-1963 life into the army, insurance work, and the trip to Scotland, then keeps circling back to the blunt idea that golf was never meant to be…
A record-breaking golf story with weather, mileage, and enough practical detail to feel lived in.
Josh Simpson's year of 652 courses makes for a sharp, unusually disciplined golf story, and the conversation keeps that scale grounded. It moves through bad weather, hard rounds, the factory setting, and the grind of keeping going once the project was already underway.
Jean van de Velde treats golf as a vehicle, not a whole identity.
Sam looks back over his year in golf and the eclectic 18 new courses he played.
This episode profiles Marion Hollins, a pioneering woman in golf who co-designed courses like Cypress Point and Pasatiempo with Alistair Mackenzie.
Host Sam interviews golf course architects Jim Urbina and Brett about the restoration of Pasatiempo Golf Club in California.
James Bledge says BTME in Harrogate is the industry's main education week, with Royal Liverpool sending eight of its 12 staff while four remain turfing back home.
Host Sam interviews James Woods about the historical connections between golf and cricket, exploring figures like WG Grace, Garfield Sobers, and Ted Dexter who excelled in both sports.
The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast episode “353 - Kington Course Diaries” centers on Kington in Herefordshire, which the hosts say sits at 1,284 feet above sea level and may be the highest course in England.
Ian Baker-Finch joins the podcast for a loose, friendly conversation that starts with coffee and settles in quickly.
The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast episode on Golden Gate Park Par 3 centers on Dan Burke, CEO of First Tee of San Francisco, and golf course designer Jay Blasi, who led the renovation.
Josh Simpson joins the show after finishing a world record 652 courses in a year.
Richard Pennell traces the history of West Byfleet, New Zealand, and Bleak Down, starting with Lock King, Muir Ferguson, and the opening drive at New Zealand in 1895.
Tom Mills and Sam William reopen the episode in person after a rushed virtual recording, then move through a Star Wars burlesque show in Birmingham and a recent run of ski trips and golf travel.
They head to Conwy Golf Club for a club-championship round and spend most of the day wrestling with the wind.
The pair begin with a tribute to David Maher.
The show starts with a bit of back-and-forth about the intro, a sponsor shout, and a long day at Kington.
The hosts are recording from the upper deck of a Starbucks at Beaconsfield Service Station.
The conversation opens with soaked gloves, rain, and a small detour into kit that can take a beating.
Tom McKenzie makes his first appearance on the show.
The conversation stays at Wallasey Golf Club and begins with the course's recent progress.
The show settles at Watford Gap Services Southbound and makes a case for motorway stops as part of golf travel.
The hosts discuss recent golf events, including Cam Young's style and a humorous anecdote about watching the Masters.
The hosts discuss a new Footjoy video, banter about shoe sizes, and introduce themselves in a lighthearted golf podcast episode.