(Image credit: Future)
Prestwick Golf Club Key Information
| Header Cell – Column 0 | Header Cell – Column 1 |
|---|---|
| Address | 2-4 Links Road, Prestwick, Ayrshire, KA9 1QH. |
| Phone Number | +44 (0)1292 477404 |
| Website | prestwickgc.co.uk (opens in new tab) |
| bookings@prestwickgc.co.uk (opens in new tab) | |
| Green Fees | £240-£270 per round high season; £195-£245 April & October; £85 additional round the same week or KA postcodes |
| Visitor Times | Weekday mornings and afternoons: play between 8am and 9am is limited to twoballs. Not before 10.15am on Thursdays. Limited Sunday times available. |
| Par | Men: 71 black, white, blue; Ladies: 71 blue, 74 green |
| Slope Rating | Men: 139 black, 133 white, 122 blue (seniors); Ladies: 141 blue, 132 green |
| Opened | 1851 |
| Designed by | Old Tom Morris |
Golf Monthly Verdict
(Image credit: Kevin Murray)
Much has changed since Prestwick hosted the first ever Open Championship over its then 12-hole course in 1860. But the wonderfully natural, rumpled terrain still provides a tangible link with the challenge that those early Open competitors faced. Six original greens remain along with three original holes.
Prestwick is still an utterly beguiling place to play and still more than capable of fully testing your game. It may be historically significant, but it is also still hugely relevant.
REASONS TO PLAY PRESTWICK
– The chance to enjoy and savour where the earliest Open Championships were played
– You’ll face the kind of challenge you rarely face in the modern era in the form of blind shots and vast bunkers
– There are plenty of chances to score interspersed with some tougher tests
RANKINGS
UK & Ireland Top 100 Golf Courses 2023/24 – 43
It can sometimes be easy to forget that St Andrews Old Course is not the true home of The Open. No, the first 12 Opens were played on an Ayrshire links that was less than a decade old when eight players teed it up for the inaugural Challenge Belt in October 1860.
Much has changed at Prestwick in the last 160 years, but the wonderfully natural, rumpled terrain still provides a tangible link with the challenge that those early Open competitors faced.
Six original greens remain along with three original holes and last year Prestwick laid the original 12-hole course back out to mark the 150th staging of The Open Championship.
Willie Park Senior won in 1860 over that same 12-hole course, and Prestwick would go on to host 24 Opens up to 1925. Old Tom Morris oversaw the extension to 18 holes in 1882, and although The Open essentially outgrew…
..
Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at Golf Monthly RSS Feed…