Bay Hill News

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.