Bay Hill Invitational
The Bay Hill Invitational 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. The tournament will be renamed the Arnold Palmer Invitational starting in 2007.
Tiger Woods won 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
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
- 2001 Tiger Woods
- 2000 Tiger Woods
- 1999 Tim Herron
Bay Hill Invitational presented by Office Depot
- 1998 Ernie Els
- 1997 Phil Mickelson
- 1996 Paul Goydos
The 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
- 1979 Bob Byman
Florida Citrus Open Invitational
- 1978 Mac McLendon
- 1977 Gary Koch
- 1976 Hale Irwin
- 1975 Lee Trevino
- 1974 Jerry Heard
- 1973 Brian Allin
- 1972 Jerry Heard
- 1971 Arnold Palmer
- 1970 Bob Lunn
- 1969 Ken Still
- 1968 Dan Sikes
- 1967 Julius Boros
- 1966 Lionel Hebert
