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
