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The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast314 - Iain Forrester on Hickory GolfSam sits down with Iain Forrester to talk about his lifelong fascination with the history of the game, and in particular hickory golf. Iain is the 5th generation of a golfing family, who having learnt the game and becoming a professional in the UK, moved to The Netherlands at Hoenshuis Golf & Country Club where he is the resident professional. Iain has a staggering collection of golf books and hickory clubs, a frequent contributor to British golf collectors society journal 'Through The Green', and the official archivist the PGA of Holland. He is also a masterful hickory player, a...2025-06-1956 min
The Cookie Jar Golf Podcast314 - Iain Forrester on Hickory GolfSam speaks to Iain Forrester about his lifelong passion for the history of the game, specifically the equipment. Born and bred in Scotland, Iain is the 5th generation of a golfing family. In 1983 he turned professional, and along with his normal work as head professional at Hoenshuis Golf & Country Club in The Netherlabnds, he spends his spare time researching and studying the history of the game. Iain has one of the largest collections of golf books and hickory golf clubs in Europe, and a unique collection of antique woods and irons that came from the ol...2025-06-1753 min
The Firm & Fast Golf PodcastThe Ancient Arts of Golf with Iain ForresterScotsman Iain Forrester has been a golf professional since 1983, moving to The Netherlands to become the Head Professional at Hoenshuis Golf & Country Club in Limburg.
Iain believes that
“……a PGA Professional needs to have a diverse skillset – a jack of all trades and a master of one or two. That’s what I’ve tried to do with my career, to be as flexible as possible, learn as many skills as possible and then have a niche that separates you from others.”
Iain’s particular niche of choice focusses on maintaining and preserving the history of golf...2025-01-091h 33
The Firm & Fast Golf PodcastTrailer for The Ancient Arts of Golf with Iain ForresterIain Forrester is a Scottish Golf Professional who has been based in The Netherlands since 1988. He joined me recently for an extensive chat about Hickory Golf, Golf in the Netherlands and his life in golf. This is a story he forgot to tell us, thankfully I managed to press record again before we ended our time together. The preceding conversation was most enjoyable and will be released over the coming days... keep an eye out for it!
If you're enoying the pod, I would be very grateful if you could submit a review on your podcast hosting...2025-01-0803 min
CLD TalksCommunity Work Theory into practice with Kirsty ForresterIn this weeks episode Iain and Conor chat with Kirsty Forrester about the the launch of her new, co-authored book “Community Work: Theory into Practice”. To demonstrate how some of the research was conducted this episode features an exciting role reversal which sees Kirsty take the reigns and interview our regular hosts. Listen in for more information on the book and how you can get a discounted copy by attending the upcoming launch event!
0 - 28:23 Insight into Kirsty Forrester
28:23 - 01:23:36 Kirsty begins to interview Conor and Iain
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Telco in 20Ep 82 – Beam me up, BT (Josie Smith)BT Group started its journey to the public cloud years ago, which has put the company in a strong position to take advantage of the strategic capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI). For this episode, I talk with Josie Smith, chief architect, digital, at BT Group, about the company's efforts to reduce its applications from thousands to hundreds, bring AI into the organization, and drive monumental change across its employee base. Listen now to hear:How BT Group’s transformation program, Simplify, is poised save the company £3 billion by 2025 [02:53]; The details of its massive effort to slash technical debt and...2024-01-0920 min
Top 100 Clubhouse - Golf PodcastEpisode 5: Iain Forrester - Dutch Golf & the European hickory sceneIn this episode Iain Forrester, Head Pro at Hoenshuis Country Club in the Netherlands, talks us through the golf scene in the low country and tells us about the growth of the hickory golf scene around Europe. We discuss the greatest courses in Holland, and whether The Netherlands has a legitimate claim to being the true home of golf. Top 100 Clubhouse is brought to you by Eden Mill, St Andrews. 2023-08-0936 min
Presidents, Prime Ministers, Monarchs & DictatorsJohn AdamsIain Dale talks to American author and strategist Daniel Forrester about the life and presidency of one of the Founding Fathers, John Adams, who served as America’s second president from 1797-18012022-03-2839 min
ASM ConnectedS02 EP6 Gill Holloway, Operations Director EMEA at InsightIn this episode of ASM Connected, Sales Director Iain Tomkinson is joined by Gill Holloway, Operations Director EMEA at Insight. Gill and Iain discuss all things agility, digital innovation, and emerging technologies within the sector, the future of the working environment, and the sheer amount of unicorn companies coming out of the US.Topics discussed in this episode: 2.14 - Adjusting to remote working.10.40 - Should agility be driven by strategy or through the culture of the business?13.06 - What does innovation mean to Insight?16.54 - How...2021-11-2936 minASM ConnectedS02 EP1 Jay McBain, Principal Analyst - Channels, Partnerships & Ecosystems at ForresterTopics discussed in this episode: 1.29 - Have channel roles changed forever after the pandemic?4.14 - How the take up of emerging and innovative technology will impact the channel moving forward.10.53 - The need to be agile today in the channel and who's getting it right and who's getting it wrong?15.36 - Change of buying/ payment model to subscription based.19.32 - Ecosystems, platforms, and marketplaces.28.02 - The difference between the US channel and the European channel.Resources:3.32 - https://www.forrester...2021-10-1535 min
Wireless WestrayEp 17 - Burns Night 2021Welcome to our 2021 virtual Burn's Night. We hope you have your haggis, neeps and tatties prepared to enjoy some poetry, songs, and speeches. Thank you to all our lovely speakers, singers, musicians, and volunteers!Speakers/Singers: Isobel Thompson, Graham Garson, Iain MacDonald, Steven Drever, Ailsa Seatter, Edith Costie, Callum Penn, and Allan Forrester. Muscians: Kathleen Drever (accordion) Ailsa Seatter (accordion), Jake Hutchison (accordion), and Graham Garson (fiddle) with his family Doreen (piano), Vela & Josie (fiddles), and Elsa (bass).2021-01-2947 min
Iain Dale All TalkDaniel ForresterDaniel Forrester is an American entrepreneur and political commentator. He also happens to be Iain Dale’s best friend. They talk about the power of friendship, meeting your heroes, their relationships with their fathers and how they’ve stayed friends despite rarely seeing each other. It’s the kind of emotional and personal conversation that only best friends can have. Expect a few revelations, a lot of laughs and also a few tears (from both of them) along the way.2020-08-121h 17
The Kindle ChroniclesTKC 500 Kevin KeithGeneral Manager Fire Tablets & Kindle and Amazon Echo & Alexa Product Marketing Interview starts at 15:16 and ends at 39:43 “I loved what I had heard about the leadership principles, particularly the customer obsession and innovation which I was seeing externally. As I came through the hiring process and since my first day that has been the reality. And so I just really love how the company obsesses about customers and looks to invent every day. That’s what really attracted me here.” News “Alexa briefly lost its voice amid widespread Amazon Web Services outage”...2018-03-0344 min