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Prestwick and Old
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.
The town was the first home of the Open Golf Championship, which was played on the Prestwick Old Course from 1860 to 1872.
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 ).
Prestwick remained in the Open's rotation until 1925, hosting the championship 24 times in all, which is second only to the Old Course.
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.
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 Course
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!

Prestwick and hosted
* – Prestwick Golf Club: The founder club was dropped from the rotation in 1925, by which time it had hosted twenty-four Opens.
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 and first
* 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.
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 ).
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.
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.
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 Open has been administered since 1860 by Prestwick Golf Club but controversy arises in 1871 which prevents the tournament being held.
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.
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.

Prestwick and Golf
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 '.
* 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

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

Prestwick and .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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