The Wickerman Festival adds Secret Golf

Lovers of music and golf can combine their passions at The Wickerman Festival held at East Kirkcarswell Farm, nr Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway in the South West of Scotland on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th July.

The Secret Golf Society will be hosting a golf tournament at the Scottish festival. 'The Wickerman Challenge' will feature a nine-hole golf course with participants having to negotiate some unique hazards such as fairways the length of normal rough, tractors, sheep hurdles, silage bales and other assorted agricultural paraphernalia.

for the winner of the Wickerman Challenge there's a unique chance to compete in a major celebrity challenge in 2009 and the chance to win an all expenses paid trip to golf's most prestigious tournament, The Masters in Augusta, USA.

Described as 'Golf for people who love golf but hate all the crap that goes with it', Secret Golf is the latest quirky activity on offer at the Wickerman Festival.

Scheduled to take place on the 25th & 26th July the family friendly weekender also boasts a mohican world record attempt, make a silent movie in a day, a water powered bovine and a mountain bike skills course.

Festival Director James Gilroy said in a statement, "Secret Golf appears to be golf but not as we know it, leave behind the dress codes and ridiculous club rules and take part in the surreal spectacle of golf at a music festival."

He also added, "I understand that the bands are being invited to play in the challenge so people may get the opportunity to thrash their favourite musician during the challenge."

Over 100 acts and two of the headliners - Gary Numan (Fri), and KT Tunstall (Sat) are already confirmed, including Dub Pistols featuring Terry Hall, Hugh Cornwell, Dodgy, x-Press 2, Digitalis, The Cuban Brothers, Sham 69, Damien Dempsey, Red Hot Chilli Pipers, De Rosa, Fangs, Zoey Van Goey, Broken Records, Beatnic Prestige, Alabama 3, Sonic Boom Six, Tim Sheridan, The Ads, Action Group, Jesus H. Foxx, Twisted Nerve, The Eddies, and Neville Staple, with Dream Machine playing a post midnight closing slot. For the line-up details to date please see here.

Tickets are on sale here, priced at £75 for the two days, or £50 for just the Saturday, and campervans costing an extra £20. Children aged 12 years and under are free.

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