2009 Arnold Palmer Invitational

Location: Orlando, Florida, USA
Course: Bay Hill Club and Lodge
Date: Mar 26-29, 2009
Sanctioned by: US PGA Tour
Official Money Tournament
Total Purse: US $ 5,800,000
Winner's Share: US $ 1,044,000 (18% of total purse)

The Arnold Palmer Invitational is always a local sports treat. This is one of the Orlando area’s best sporting events and it is coming up March 23rd - 29th at the 7,267 yard Bay Hill Country Club course

The Arnold Palmer Invitational was founded in 1979 to replace Florida Citrus Open Invitational. The Invitational has gone through many different names over the years, most of them including " Bay Hill," the name of the club and lodge which hosts the tournament. Arnold Palmer has owned Bay Hill since 1976.

The 18-hole "Championship" course a features 7,205 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. The course rating is 75.1 and it has a slope rating of 139 on Bermuda grass. Designed by Dick Wilson/Arnold Palmer.

Tiger Woods has historically done very well at this PGA event, winning a stunning five times.

Tiger woods will play as a tune-up for the Master’s which starts two weeks after Bay Hill. Tiger would be competing for his sixth Bay Hill victory. Other Floridians who will most likely compete include Zach Johnson, formerly a native of Iowa, but now maintains a home in the area. Zach is currently in the Top 5 for the race for the FedEx Cup points in 2009.

Past champions of the event reads like a who's who of golf - Ernie Els (1998), Phil Mickelson (1997), Ben Crenshaw ('93), Fred Couples ('92), Tom Kite ('89), Payne Stewart ('87) and Fuzzy Zoeller ('85) to name a few. These great men of golf are pictured on a wall of fame near the pro shop, which is considered one of the top 100 in the country, according to Golf Shop Operations.

The PGA golf event dates of play are actually Thursday, March 26th through Sunday, March 29th. Purse for the event is $5.8 million with $1.04 million to the winning player.

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Tiger Woods stalked his 15-foot, 11-inch putt to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Sunday evening, after the ball dropped into the hole and the gallery exploded into a disbelieving frenzy, after a hug from the esteemed tournament host and several slaps on the back from other well-wishers, the six-time champion at Bay Hill was asked about his 275th and final stroke of the week.

Woods analytically explained his strategy, discussing how it was an uphill left-to-right putt that, if anything, he wanted to leave on the high side, but hoped the green would snag it and bring it back to the hole. And then, finally, he spoke the magic words.

"I hit it right where I was looking," he said, "and it somehow went in."

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