From the Clubhouse: The good, the bad, and how we’d improve golf club catering
Is a bacon roll a crucial part of your golfing day? Do you still enjoy getting together for a post-round feast? And is the key to a player’s heart really through their stomach?
On this week’s From the Clubhouse podcast, in association with TaylorMade Golf, Tom Irwin and Steve Carroll are discussing the culinary options we have as members and visitors at golf clubs.
The pair go through their best experiences of golf club catering, talk about some of the challenges facing clubs – including a look at why it often loses money – and then try and come up with some innovative ways to make it all even better.
Steve, a vegetarian, has had quite enough of halloumi and Tom explains the incredible lengths his home club go to so as to ensure his son has something he enjoys tucking into.
It’ll probably be more pie and chips than Michelin Star, but we hope there’s something in this podcast that leave you feeling satisfied afterwards. So let’s dig in…
Listen to our views on golf club catering on the From the Clubhouse podcast
Hear what we think on the From the Clubhouse podcast, in association with TaylorMade Golf, in the player below, or on your preferred podcast platform…
What do you think? Is the food at your club great? Does your golf club catering franchise do a sterling job? Or could it all be a little bit better? Let us know with a tweet.
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Steve Carroll
A journalist for 25 years, Steve has been immersed in club golf for almost as long. A former club captain, he has passed the Level 3 Rules of Golf exam with distinction having attended the R&A's prestigious Tournament Administrators and Referees Seminar.
Steve has officiated at a host of high-profile tournaments, including Open Regional Qualifying, PGA Fourball Championship, English Men's Senior Amateur, and the North of England Amateur Championship. In 2023, he made his international debut as part of the team that refereed England vs Switzerland U16 girls.
A part of NCG's Top 100s panel, Steve has a particular love of links golf and is frantically trying to restore his single-figure handicap. He currently floats at around 11.
Steve plays at Close House, in Newcastle, and York GC, where he is a member of the club's matches and competitions committee and referees the annual 36-hole scratch York Rose Bowl.
Having studied history at Newcastle University, he became a journalist having passed his NTCJ exams at Darlington College of Technology.
What's in Steve's bag: TaylorMade Stealth 2 driver, 3-wood, and hybrids; TaylorMade Stealth 2 irons; TaylorMade Hi-Toe, Ping ChipR, Sik Putter.
