Posts about: prestwick

The old course at Prestwick was one of the original Scottish courses and hosted the very first Open Championships in 1860. A very interesting, wonderfully quirky course.

The town of Prestwick proved to be a great place to use a base as we explored the Southern Ayrshire coast of Scotland, with easy access to the Gailes courses, Troon, Turnberry and Prestwick. The old course at Prestwick has a number of great hotels right across the street including the North Beach Hotel (see [...]

A lovely club just across the road from Western Gailes, Glasgow Gailes was a challenging course with any extra generous helping of pot bunkers and heather. A great place for us to get started after an exhausting flight over earlier in the day. Glasgow Gailes was a relatively flat course but was a quick to [...]

Back in July of 2007 our editorial director Robert Thompson did a wonderful photo essay of the classic Scottish course the Prestwick Golf Club (and Home of the first Open Championship). Check it out here – Prestwick Photo Essay We’ll try and add more pictures after our visit there on June 9th. I can’t wait.

My friends and I are a little less than a month away from our trip right now. Hard to believe! With that I thought I’d give you a quick rundown of our itinerary and some of the thinking and planning that went into it. First off you’ll notice that our 9-day trip basically fell into [...]