* 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.

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

The Prestwick Golf Club is founded.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Scottish Aviation built a factory using the original terminal building and hangars at Prestwick, which produced such aircraft as the Prestwick Pioneers, and later the Jetstream and Bulldog.

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.

* 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.

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.

British Caledonian Boeing 707 # 707-320C | Boeing 707-320C, registration G-AXRS, seen at Glasgow Prestwick Airport | Prestwick Airport circa | ca.

Her political achievements include securing an amendment to the Government legislation on National Air Traffic Control Services which secured the building of the new Scottish Air Traffic Control Centre at Prestwick and playing a lead role in persuading the Government to set up the Financial Assistance Scheme and the Pension Protection Fund for those at risk of losing their occupational pensions if their employers go bankrupt.

Jack McConnell welcomes President of the United States George W. Bush and Laura Bush to Scotland for the 31st G8 summit on 6 July 2005 at 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.

* December 25 – BOAC Boeing 377 Stratocruiser G-ALSA crashes on landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, killing 28 of the 36 passengers and crew on board.

Ryanair also has maintenance facilities at Prestwick.

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 '.