The 2010 World Hickory Festival of Golf including the 6th World Hickory Open Championship, the first hickory tournament to receive full PGA recognition, will be held at Musselburgh Links, Craigielaw and Gullane Golf Club on 19th – 24th September 2010.

Please click here for the Chairman Lionel Freedman's updated message.

News: Details are now available for the Willie Park Sr. Anniversary event to be held at Musselburgh Old Links. The 150th Anniversary is being staged so that the local community and others from far and wide can celebrate Willie Park Sr.’s historic achievement of winning the first Open Championship at Prestwick in 1860.

The date of the competition has been set for Saturday 27th March on the Old Musselburgh Links and will be open to all-comers as a scratch and handicap tournament for ladies and gentlemen. It will include a hickory division for those who want to celebrate the anniversary in true style. Please click here for full details. Please click here for an entry form.

Click here for Sky News video coverage of the 2009 Championship.

Click here for further coverage of the 2009 event from Sky Sports Golf Night including interviews with the winner and with the chairman Lionel Freedman.

The Willie Park Anniversary Competition is open to all golfers who may play with their modern clubs and just to catch the spirit of the occasion there is a Hickory division for hickory club lovers.

Click here for the full results from the 2009 tournament

2009 Championship Report: Mark Is King Of The Hickory Shafts:
Joint sixth overnight, Mark King forged to the front with the best second round of two-over-par 73 to win the world professional hickory championship by two shots with a two-round total of six-over 148 over the Gullane No 2 course today. Click here for full details (PDF)