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

* 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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

In 1941, BOAC was tasked with operating a ' Return Ferry Service ' from Prestwick to Montreal to reposition ferry pilots who had flown American bombers from Canada, and they were provided with RAF Liberators with a very basic passenger conversion.

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

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.

The Jetstream however lived on as a successful product, the design being purchased and produced by Scottish Aviation at Prestwick and later when Scottish Aviation was incorporated into British Aerospace from 1977.

The restrictions on Glasgow Airport were lifted and the transatlantic operators immediately moved from Prestwick, Glasgow Airport being renamed Glasgow International Airport.

Glasgow International also faces stiff competition from Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which has reinvented itself as a low-cost hub for budget airlines and which has a direct rail link to Central Glasgow.

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.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport from the air

The extension of Runway 13 / 31 caused considerable disruption to road users as the main road from Monkton into Prestwick was now crossing the tarmac of the existing runway.

Glasgow Prestwick Airport is considered to be the only piece of United Kingdom territory on which Elvis Presley ever set foot, when the United States Army transport plane carrying him home stopped to refuel in 1960, whilst en route from Germany.

Part of this was to move all transatlantic traffic departing from Scotland to Glasgow International Airport, near Paisley, and sell Prestwick off to the private sector.

Today, Ryanair now serves more than 20 destinations from Prestwick — now one of their maintenance hubs – and other budget airlines have also moved into the airport.

Destinations with direct service from Prestwick

It runs in a southwesternly direction from the city of Glasgow, past the towns of Giffnock, Newton Mearns, Kilmarnock, Prestwick, Ayr, Maybole, Girvan and Stranraer to the town of Portpatrick on the Irish Sea.

The A77 is a crucial link from Glasgow to one of its two major airports, Prestwick Airport, and to the three main ferry terminals at Stranraer, Cairnryan, and Troon for sailings to Northern Ireland.

Scottish air traffic control has been carried out from Atlantic House in Prestwick since 1978.

This situation changed with the opening of the Prestwick Centre in 2010, to which all Operational Services were transferred from the old Atlantic House.

Caledonian first applied to the ATLB for a licence to launch transatlantic scheduled services from London to New York via Prestwick in 1964.

The additional aircraft enabled Caledonian to operate an expanded European IT charter programme from Gatwick, Manchester and Prestwick.

Caledonian planned to introduce twice-weekly services from Prestwick to Barcelona and Ibiza for the 1967 summer season, making use of the licences the ATLB had awarded it the year before.

Caledonian re-applied to the ATLB for a licence to launch transatlantic scheduled services from Gatwick, Heathrow or Stansted via Prestwick to New York JFK, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto, and from Birmingham via Prestwick to New York, in 1967.

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 '.

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.

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

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

Vandalia is a sister city to Lichtenfels, Germany and Prestwick, Scotland.

Both Campbeltown Airport and Glasgow Prestwick Airport at around are the closest airports in Scotland to Stranraer.

He was created a life peer as Baron Younger of Prestwick of Ayr in the District of Kyle and Carrick on 7 July 1992, five years before succeeding to the viscountcy.

From its revival in 1872 until 1891 it was played on three courses in rotation: Prestwick, The Old Course at St Andrews, and Musselburgh Links.

On 4 April 2002, Ryanair started flights to Glasgow Prestwick Airport.

Launched with DC-8 equipment routing through Glasgow Prestwick in Scotland, frequency subsequently increased to four flights a week, while the intermediate stop was cut out.

The British Airports Authority ( BAA ) took control of the airport in 1975 and when BAA was privatised in the 1980s, Glasgow Airport began to offer flights to other places around the world, flights which previously were facilitated by Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which was subsequently relegated as the city's secondary airport catering for low cost airlines and charter operators.

The political rows over Glasgow and Prestwick airports continued, with Prestwick enjoying a monopoly over transatlantic traffic, while Glasgow Airport was only allowed to handle UK and intra-European traffic.