Prestwick

American

[prest-wik] / ˈprɛst wɪk /

noun

international airport in W Scotland.

Prestwick British

/ ˈprɛstwɪk /

noun

a town in SW Scotland, in South Ayrshire on the Firth of Clyde; international airport, golf course: tourism. Pop: 14 934 (2001)

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“You would call him up, and he would talk you off the ledge,” said Paul Kaufman, longtime course superintendent at Prestwick Country Club in Myrtle Beach.

From The Wall Street Journal

Kaufman was relatively new to his job at Prestwick when, in the early 2000s, an outbreak of bare patches, a foot in diameter, blazed across the greens.

From The Wall Street Journal

Michelle and John were married on 20 November 2021 at the Carlton Hotel in Prestwick, surrounded by family and friends - or so they thought.

From BBC

A motorcade took Vance and his family to Prestwick Airport on Sunday morning before he took off on Air Force Two just before 13:00.

From BBC

The vice-president arrived on Air Force Two at Prestwick Airport and was expected to be driven a short distance to Hulford in a motorcade.

From BBC

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