Ayrshire & Arran

Prestwick Golf Club hosted its 24th and last Open Championship in 1925. Only has hosted more Open Championships than Prestwick. In 1851, a 12-hole course was founded at Prestwick Golf Club with Old Tom Morris as “Keeper of the Green”. Nine years later in 1860, the British Open Championship was born and didn’t move away from Prestwick until it went to in 1873. The Open has been hosted here no fewer than 24 times, although the most recent championship was…

Royal Troon was founded in 1878 (without the Royal Title) as a five-hole golf course following a meeting in the local pub by a group of golf enthusiasts. It was Charlie Hunter, Keeper of the Green at , who laid out the original course and a few of his greens are still in play today. George Strath, Royal Troon's first professional, later extended the course to twelve holes and then to eighteen by 1884. Willie Fernie improved the eighteen-hole layout…

Western Gailes Golf Club is wedged between Irvine Bay and the railway tracks on one of Ayrshire’s narrowest strips of links land. Western and its next-door neighbour, Glasgow Gailes, are the northernmost of the exceptional links courses located on this prodigious stretch of Ayrshire coastline. Four Glaswegians who were fed up with playing on muddy parkland founded the club in 1897. They recruited the first keeper of the greens, Mr. F. Morris, to lay out…