Arnold Palmer Invitational
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| Arnold Palmer Invitational | |
| Tournament information | |
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| Location | Orlando, Florida |
| Established | 1966 |
| Course(s) | Bay Hill Club and Lodge |
| Par | 70 |
| Yardage | 7,239 |
| Tour(s) | PGA Tour |
| Format | Stroke play |
| Purse | $5,800,000 |
| Month Played | March |
| Tournament record scores | |
| Aggregate | 264 Payne Stewart (1987) |
| To-par | -23 Buddy Allin (1973) |
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The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard is a PGA Tour golf tournament. It is played each March at Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge, a private golf resort in Orlando, Florida which has been owned by Arnold Palmer since 1976 and where he has his winter home. The event was founded in 1979 as a successor to the Florida Citrus Open Invitational, which was played at Rio Pinar Golf Club on the East side of Orlando. It has had a number of different names since then, most of them including "Bay Hill." The tournament was played for the first time under the Palmer name in 2007.
As a restricted field event on the PGA Tour, only the first 70 players on the previous years money-list are guaranteed invites.[1]
Tiger Woods won what was then known as the Bay Hill Invitational four years in a row from 2000 to 2003. This is one of only four occasions that a golfer has won the same event four times in a row on the Tour. In 2004 he was one shot off the lead after opening with a 67, but followed up with back to back 74s on the Friday and Saturday, and ended the final round on Sunday in a tie for 46th place.
[edit] Winners
- Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard
- 2008 Tiger Woods
- 2007 Vijay Singh
- Bay Hill Invitational presented by MasterCard
- 2006 Rod Pampling
- 2005 Kenny Perry
- 2004 Chad Campbell
- Bay Hill Invitational presented by Cooper Tires
- 2003 Tiger Woods
- 2002 Tiger Woods
- Bay Hill Invitational
- 2001 Tiger Woods
- 2000 Tiger Woods
- 1999 Tim Herron
- 1998 Ernie Els
- 1997 Phil Mickelson
- 1996 Paul Goydos
- Nestle Invitational
- 1995 Loren Roberts
- 1994 Loren Roberts
- 1993 Ben Crenshaw
- 1992 Fred Couples
- 1991 Andrew Magee
- 1990 Robert Gamez
- 1989 Tom Kite
- Hertz Bay Hill Classic
- 1988 Paul Azinger
- 1987 Payne Stewart
- 1986 Dan Forsman
- 1985 Fuzzy Zoeller
- Bay Hill Classic
- 1984 Gary Koch
- 1983 Mike Nicolette
- 1982 Tom Kite
- 1981 Andy Bean
- 1980 Dave Eichelberger
- Bay Hill Citrus Classic
- 1979 Bob Byman
- Florida Citrus Open
- 1978 Mac McLendon
- 1977 Gary Koch
- 1976 Hale Irwin
- 1975 Lee Trevino
- 1974 Jerry Heard
- 1973 Buddy Allin
- 1972 Jerry Heard
- Florida Citrus Invitational
- 1971 Arnold Palmer
- 1970 Bob Lunn
- Florida Citrus Open Invitational
- 1969 Ken Still
- 1968 Dan Sikes
- 1967 Julius Boros
- 1966 Lionel Hebert
[edit] References
- ^ What's at stake for 2008, pgatour.com, November 1, 2007
