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Carnoustie’s Lindsay Mann wins World Hickory Open Golf Championship at Craigielaw Golf Club

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Former Scottish Boys Champion Lindsay Mann who plays the Tartan Tour, won the 2008 World Hickory Open Golf Championship at Craigielaw Golf Club. Mann collected a winners cheque of £1,712 with a score of 73 to finish one shot ahead of tournament professional Lloyd Saltman (pictured below).

Following the inaugural tournament in 2005, played at Musselburgh Old Links, venue for six Opens in the late 19th century the World Hickory Open 2006 moved ten miles east to Craigielaw Golf Club for this first PGA-supported hickory event to include a full field of professionals.

Craigielaw Golf Course was designed by Donald Steel in 1997 for a group of investors. It runs alongside Kilspindie, another of East Lothian’s gems and is amongst a group of ten links courses including Luffness, Gullane, Muirfield, Archerfield and North Berwick along a quite unique four mile stretch of coastline.

The golf course is part of the Wemyss and March Estates, which runs the club in an organised and energetic fashion assisted by an enthusiastic Membership Liaison Committee and, unlike so many golf clubs, offers its superb club house facilities to the general public.

As a golf course, it is scenically located on the shores of the Firth of Forth with the hills of Fife framing this magnificent backdrop. The course represents a challenge in equal measure for short and long handicap players. In true links style, many of the bunkers are revetted and the layout is such that the wind is nearly always part of the course’s natural defence.

At 6,700-yards, but reduced to around 6,000 yards for the Tournament, the course, though not the longest, still had four par fives and these are unquestionably a challenge when playing with hickory-shafted clubs. At the 2006 Open, the consensus among both pros and amateurs was that the organisers had picked a course almost perfectly suited to hickory golf.

WORLD HICKORY OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP hosted by Craigielaw Golf Club.
Par 71 6,250yd - LEADING FINAL TOTALS

73 L Mann (Carnoustie) (£1,712).
74 L Saltman (Craigielaw) (£1,370).
75 R Arnott (Bishopbriggs) (£1,027).
76 C Kelly (Cawder) , L Harper (Archerfield Links), E Cameron (Hamilton), G Fox (East Kilbride), R Buckley (Craigielaw) , A Oldcorn (King’s Acre) (£506 each).
77 Z Saltman (Craigielaw) (am)