* October 17 – The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.

It was the members of Prestwick Golf Club who first created the British Open Championship in 1860 with the club hosting the event twenty-four times up until 1925.

The Open Championship was first played on 17 October 1860 at Prestwick Golf Club in Scotland.

Prestwick Golf Club, site of the first Open Championship in 1860 Open Championship | 1860.

From 1860 to 1870 the Open Championship was organised by and played at Prestwick Golf Club.

* – Prestwick Golf Club: The founder club was dropped from the rotation in 1925, by which time it had hosted twenty-four Opens.

* The inaugural British Open is won by Willie Park senior at Prestwick Golf Club.

* The Open has been administered since 1860 by Prestwick Golf Club but controversy arises in 1871 which prevents the tournament being held.

The town was the first home of the Open Golf Championship, which was played on the Prestwick Old Course from 1860 to 1872.

Andrew Strath, " Keeper of the Green " at Prestwick Golf Club in the 1860s, is buried in the cemetery.

The Prestwick Old Course hosted the first Open Golf Championship in 1860.

The Prestwick Golf Club is founded.

Since he was recognized as the best player during much of his lifetime, golfers at Prestwick Golf Club formed a competition in 1860, to decide who would succeed him as the ' Champion Golfer '.

His subsequent work included Kinghorn Golf Club in 1887, Prestwick, Muirfield, the Jubilee Course at St Andrews, Balcomie ( Crail ), Moray, Askernish in South Uist, Lahinch and Rosapenna in Ireland, and Warkworth and Royal North Devon Golf Club ( Westward Ho!

* 11 Prestwick Golf Club, Muirfield

His Open Championships were at Musselburgh in 1877 ; Prestwick Golf Club in 1878 ; and St Andrews in 1879.

Prestwick Golf Club is located in the town of Prestwick, South Ayrshire, Scotland.

Golf had been played over the links at Prestwick for many years before the Club was formally organized in 1851.

Prestwick is famous as the initial originator and sponsor of The Open Golf Championship, the oldest of golf's four major championships.

This is the list of The Open Championship champions at Prestwick Golf Club.

* Prestwick St. Nicholas Golf Club, South Ayrshire, Scotland

The Prestwick Club institutes the first Championship Meeting, a foursomes competition at St. Andrews attended by eleven golf clubs.

The Prestwick Club institutes a Professional Championship played at Prestwick ; the first Championship Belt is won by Willie Park, Snr.

Scottish Aviation Limited was a Scottish aircraft manufacturer, based at Prestwick in South Ayrshire.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is Glasgow's second airport, it also serves the Greater Glasgow urban area, situated northeast of the town of Prestwick in South Ayrshire and 32 miles from the city centre of Glasgow.

In her book about Prestwick Airport, South Ayrshire councillor Ann Galbraith writes about this tough time in the airport's history, saying that " if it hadn ’ t been for Matthew Hudson the airport wouldn ’ t be here today ".

* On 28 April 1958, Vickers Viscount G-AORC crashed at Craigie, South Ayrshire on approach to Glasgow Prestwick Airport when the pilot misread the altimeter by a margin of.

Prestwick (, ) is a town in South Ayrshire on the south-west coast of Scotland, about south-west of Glasgow.

Prestwick lies within the South Ayrshire council area.

* Glasgow Prestwick International Airport ( PIK ) is located 29 miles south west of the city in South Ayrshire and caters mainly for charter flights, low-cost airlines, and freight traffic.

The constituency was created by merging the Ayr burgh and Prestwick burgh components of the Ayr District of Burghs constituency with parts of the South Ayrshire and Kilmarnock constituencies.

The Representation of the People ( Scotland ) Act 1868 provided that the new South Ayrshire constituency was to consist of the District of Kyle and Carrick, consisting of the parishes of Auchinleck, Ayr, Ballantrae, Barr, Colmonell, Coylton, Craigie, Dailly, Dalmellington, Dalrymple, Dundonald, Galston, Girvan, Kirkmichael, Kirkoswald, Mauchline, Maybole, Monkton and Prestwick, Muirkirk, New Cumnock, Newton-on-Ayr, Ochiltree, Old Cumnock, Riccarton, St Quivox, Sorn, Stair, Straiton, Symington and Tarbolton.

Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow, is located in Ayrshire.

Specifically, the Westland Sea King Mk5 aircraft of HMS Gannet, operating in the Search and Rescue role from Royal Naval Air Station Prestwick, Ayrshire, display a Saltire decal on the nose of each aircraft.

In the beginning, Prestwick was the only Scottish airport allowed to operate a transatlantic link, largely due to the very benign weather conditions on the Ayrshire coast.

* The Prestwick Centre, Ayrshire, is home to the Scottish Area Control Centre ( including, since January 2010, the former Manchester Area Control Centre ), which controls traffic over Scotland, Northern Ireland, and up to FL285 over the northern half of England, and the Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Centre which provides a procedural control service for traffic crossing the North Atlantic via the Shanwick Oceanic Control Area.

Prestwick is on the Ayrshire Coast Line between Glasgow Central and Ayr.

This change of plan from the Scottish Executive was because of the Kingston Bridge's inability to handle an increase in traffic: the thinking was that the increased traffic from the new road will not then go straight over the bridge and will enable traffic from the south east, heading west to Ayrshire, Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow Prestwick Airport, or the docks at Greenock, Hunterston and Braehead, to bypass the Glasgow city centre section of the M8.

The name is a portmanteau of two of the air traffic facilities concerned with flights operating within this area of International Airspace, these being the Ballygirreen Radio Station, North of Shannon Airport in County Clare, Ireland, and the Prestwick Centre in Ayrshire, Scotland.

As part of the Sixth Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies which begun in 2011, the Boundary Commission for Scotland has proposed changes to the Central Ayrshire constituency which would see Irvine moved to a proposed " North Ayrshire and Arran " seat, with Prestwick, Troon and the entire Kyle electoral ward moved into a reconfigured contituency called " Kyle and Cumnock ".

Peter Howson was born in London and moved with his family to Prestwick, Ayrshire, when Howson was aged four.