Part 1 of Richard Pennell's guide to joining a golf club covered the membership interview. If you've made it this far, you're ready for Part 2 - the play-in round...
Sounder co-founder James Day has spent his whole career fighting for a more accessible, sustainable and enjoyable version of golf. So why is he so cynical about the frat-party crowds who flocked to...
Richard Pennell has been around golf for 35 years - as a player, greenkeeper, secretary and humble club member - and most recently, as the the author of the Stymied blog. In his first piece writin...
Meet Eric - a golfer, a caddie, a musician and a gentleman. When we visited the west coast of Scotland back in the summer, he was there to guide us around the magical links of Machrihanish, Machrih...
Our resident club-maker and equipment nerd James Day does not want to unwrap a new driver on Christmas morning
In the second part of our ‘interview’ with Horace Hutchinson, the English pioneer who played, wrote and travelled widely in golf’s early years, we hear tales of Old Tom Morris, John Ball and JH Tay...
The story of Sounder begins with the brand of clubs that Seve played back in the 1970s. We've been picking up vintage Sounder gear on eBay since we decided on the name - which got us thinking about...
Our new luggage range is handmade by the team at Montrose Rope & Sail, a 230-year-old firm located just a few solid iron shots away from the town’s even more historic golf course. Here, Managin...
Golf is a sport that forces us to look in the mirror, even if we don't always like what we see staring back at us. In his first piece for Sounder, Jack Fairey takes a trip into his golfing subconsc...
As the eyes of the sporting world turn to the Ryder Cup, Charlie Lemay went in search of the man who created the biggest event in golf
When a football injury forced Josh Coles into golfing exile, he realised that the game meant more to him than he ever knew.
An exclusive introduction to Patchrihanish – the toughest five-hole par-15 golf course in Scotland
Every golfer remembers their first set of clubs. For Charlie Lemay, his lifelong love of golf began when he set eyes on a junior half-set in the Army Exchange Service…
In the days leading up to the Open Championship at Royal Portrush, the Wild Thing took part in a special Q&A at Urban Golf in London, in which he discussed his childhood, his majors, the Ryder ...
The two public courses in London’s Richmond Park were once the busiest in Europe, possibly the world. As a boy, Dan Davies all but lived there, which made his return so many years later all the mor...
As a successful businessman and pillar of the community, Jas Athwal is exactly the kind of man who gets elected captain of his golf club. But 20 years later, he still feels like an outsider becaus...
Playing golf is hungry work. Jon Davie gets the lowdown on the best dining experiences from across the golfing world.
The inexorable march of technology is creating a generation of golfers who lack imagination and resilience, argues Sounder partner James Day.
From lapping up freebies to talking about feelings – "social media influencer" turned mental health campaigner Ryan Curtis shares the story of The Club and The Club Talks.
When the writer Anne-Celine Jaeger had her first experience of golf last year, her eyes were opened to the joy of a game she describes as 'a modern day meditation'. Here, she picks five books that ...
As courses in England finally open up again, Anne-Celine Jaeger contemplates the connection between golf and mental health with renowned acupuncturist Ross J Barr and Gordon Smart, broadcaster and...