Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard March 25 - 28

[Alan Shore]

PGA. Bay Hill Club & Lodge, Orlando, Florida.

The Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard is a PGA Tour golf tournament. It is played each March at the 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.

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.

Past Winners

Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard

. 2009 Zach Johnson
. 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