197 - Course Diaries: West Byfleet w/ Richard Pennell

Special anouncements:

Sounder x Cookie Jar Retro Day @ West Byfleet 19th October:
https://cookiejargolf.com/cookie-jar-retro-day-west-byfleet/

Richard's new book now on sale: 'Grass Routes' available here: https://pitchmarks.bigcartel.com/product/grass-routes-by-richard-pennell

Richard returns to the podcast to guide us through this wonderful Course Diaries episode about West Byfleet. A course which had not been on our radars until he started work there in recent years, and spent hours waxing lyrical about its architectural merits and fascinating history that it shares with New Zealand golf club. 

In this episode we talk about the inception of Bleakdown Golf Club as it was known for its first years when Locke-King handed the parcel of estate land over to the locals for the use of golf, Muir Ferguson who ran this little slither of Surrey with an iron fist, Cuthbert Butchart, Braid and of course JF Abercromby.

It's a wonderful course, and hopefully this episode will show you why you shouldn't overlook West Byfleet the ext time you're visiting somewhere new in Surrey.

For more on Richard, his substack page is a constant stream of great musings on the game and can be accessed free of charge on the link here

If you've enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify!

You can follow us along below @cookiejargolf
Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Website