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Prestwick and is
* October 17 – The Open Championship, also known as the British Open, is played for the first time at Prestwick Golf Club in Ayrshire, Scotland.
Glasgow Prestwick International Airport, serving Glasgow, is located in Ayrshire.
Vandalia is a sister city to Lichtenfels, Germany and Prestwick, Scotland.
* The inaugural British Open is won by Willie Park senior at Prestwick Golf Club.
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 physical terms, Prestwick is Scotland's largest commercial airfield, although in passenger traffic terms it sits in fourth place after Edinburgh Airport, Glasgow International, and Aberdeen Airport all of which are operated by BAA.
It is telling however, that many years since those proposals were made, Glasgow Prestwick Airport does have its own railway station, something that even Glasgow International Airport does not have.
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.
For this reason, it is often used as a diversionary airport when weather conditions close aviation hubs elsewhere in the United Kingdom-heavy snowfall in the recent severe winters of 2009 and 2010-2011 resulted in large numbers of intercontinental flights bound for London Heathrow and elsewhere to be temporarily diverted to Prestwick.
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.
Irvine is also well served by several arterial roads, namely the A78 ( Greenock to Prestwick ), A71 ( Irvine to Kilmarnock and beyond to Edinburgh ), A737 ( through the Garnock Valley to Glasgow via the M8 ) and the A736 to Glasgow
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.
* 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 Airport ( used by RyanAir and several other airlines ) is connected directly to Wemyss Bay by FASTBUS 585, which runs twice an hour.
It is situated on the west coast of Scotland, about eight miles north of Ayr and three miles northwest of Glasgow Prestwick International Airport.
The nearest station is just over 2 miles away, at Glengarnock which provides direct rail links to Glasgow Central station and services to the Clyde coast and Glasgow Prestwick airport.
Beith is approximately 13 miles south of Glasgow International Airport, 21 miles north of Glasgow Prestwick airport and 60 miles west of Edinburgh airport.
Prestwick (, ) is a town in South Ayrshire on the south-west coast of Scotland, about south-west of Glasgow.
The town is served by Glasgow Prestwick Airport, which serves many European destinations as well as transatlantic and other international cargo flights.
To the north of Prestwick is the small village of Monkton.
Prestwick is also a major air traffic control centre, with both the Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre ( controlling 70 % of UK airspace ) and Prestwick Oceanic Area Control Centre ( Shanwick Oceanic Control-responsible for air traffic over the eastern half of the North Atlantic ) located at the NATS owned ' Scottish and Oceanic Area Control Centre '.

Prestwick and Open
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.
Prestwick administered The Open from 1860 to 1870.
From 1860 to 1870 the Open Championship was organised by and played 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.
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.
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.

Prestwick and Golf
* – Prestwick Golf Club: The founder club was dropped from the rotation in 1925, by which time it had hosted twenty-four Opens.
Andrew Strath, " Keeper of the Green " at Prestwick Golf Club in the 1860s, is buried in the cemetery.
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
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 Golf Club, South Ayrshire, Scotland
* Prestwick St. Nicholas Golf Club, South Ayrshire, Scotland

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