Bay Hill Club and Lodge is a private golf club in Orlando, Fla., famous for its affiliation with Hall of Famer Arnold Palmer and the Arnold Palmer Invitational, a PGA Tour event. In 1965, Palmer played an exhibition at Bay Hill -- then with a raw course design and a tiny pro shop -- against Jack Nicklaus, which Palmer won. Palmer then decided he wanted to own the club because of its potential among the vast orange-grove land of Central Florida. He eventually bought the property in 1976. Palmer and designer Ed Seay remodeled Bay Hill to make the course tough enough for PGA Tour standards. After local Rio Pinar Golf Club stopped hosting the Florida Citrus Open, Bay Hill took over in 1979 and renamed it the Bay Hill Citrus Open. The tournament has undergone numerous name changes but has been the Arnold Palmer Invitational since 2007. Tiger Woods has won at Bay Hill five times, including in 2008 with a dramatic 24-foot putt on the 18th hole to avoid a playoff with Bart Bryant.
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