The PGA Tour’s Arnold Palmer Invitational has been at Bay Hill Club in Orlando since 1979, drawing great fields and a long list of top winners.
The par-72 layout plays 7,454 yards for the pros, and the scores tend to depend largely on the spring breezes in Florida. A strong north wind can make the course particularly difficult, and that is a very possible condition as late-season cold fronts push into Central Florida. Players can have their hands full if such winds dry out the course.
Arnold Palmer bought Bay Hill in 1974 and maintained a home there until his death in 2016. A statue of the King still stands near the clubhouse, marking the territory that has Palmer’s fingerprints all over it.
Designed by Palmer and Dick Wilson, Bay Hill ranks No. 8 in Florida on Golfweek’s Best Courses You Can Play list, and it is No. 70 on Golfweek’s Best list for top resort courses in the United States.
Thanks to fairway maps provided by Puttview – the maker of detailed yardage books for more than 30,000 courses around the world – we can see exactly the challenges that players face this week. Check out each hole below.