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

Prestwick and Club
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.

Prestwick and site
Scotland's aviation industry has long been based in and around Prestwick and its international airport, and although aircraft manufacture ceased at the former British Aerospace plant in 1998, a significant number of aviation companies are still based on the Prestwick site.
Today, part of the Prestwick site is occupied by the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm with RNAS Prestwick, ( officially known by the Royal Navy as HMS Gannet ), where a detachment of 3 Sea Kings provide a search and rescue role, covering one of the largest SAR areas of the UK including Ben Nevis, the Lakes, Northern Ireland and past the Irish coast.
Today BAE Systems retains a small facility at Prestwick for its BAE Systems Regional Aircraft division, with the adjoining main manufacturing site, producing components for Airbus and Boeing aircraft, having been sold to Spirit AeroSystems in January 2006.
After British Airways had ceased regular passenger operations in 1983, BA continued to intermittently use Prestwick as a site for pilot training, especially for training Concorde pilots.
The responsibilities of the site were assumed by the air traffic control centre at Prestwick, Scotland, in October 1978.
Prestwick, site of the airport, and Troon on the coast are also included.

Prestwick and first
Prestwick Airport also used to host a bi-annual airshow, the first of which was held on 30 September 1967.
The first fare-paying passengers to New York departed Prestwick on 21 December 1961.
Caledonian first applied to the ATLB for a licence to launch transatlantic scheduled services from London to New York via Prestwick in 1964.
In the first, a fashion model, Miss Prestwick ( Court ), fled to this remote hotel in order to escape a married American reporter, Michael Carter ( McDermott ).
Later that month a British Overseas Airways Corporation B-24 Liberator en route from Prestwick, Scotland, to Gander, made the first officially sanctioned landing during a weather emergency.

Prestwick and Open
Prestwick administered The Open from 1860 to 1870.
The Open Championship is reinstituted when Prestwick, St. Andrews and the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers offer a new trophy, with the Open Championship to be hosted in rotation by the three clubs.
Young Tom Morris, son of Old Tom, learned his golf from boyhood at Prestwick, and captured four consecutive Opens held there from 1868-1872 ( there was no Open in 1871 ).
Bernard Darwin, the era's leading golf writer, reported from the scene that he doubted the Open should be held ever again at Prestwick, and such has proved the case.
Musselburgh was one of the three courses which staged The Open Championship in rotation in the 1870s and 1880s, alongside Prestwick and the Old Course at St Andrews.

Prestwick and Championship
Prestwick has also staged the Amateur Championship on eleven occasions, most recently in 2001.

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