Club: Bay Hill Club and Lodge

Location: Orlando, Fla

Date: March 19-25, 2012

Golf Betting Online: The Arnold Palmer Invitational is a PGA Golf Tour tournament played each March at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge owned by Mr. Arnold Palmer since 1976. 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.

The Arnold Palmer Invitational, also known as the Bay Hill Invitational, consistently draws the PGA Tour's top professionals. In 1966 it began as the Florida Citrus Open Invitational. In 1990, Arnold Palmer not only redesigned all 18 greens at the Bay Hill Club & Lodge, but amongst many other adjustments he made, one of the most major involved the overall distance; increasing the total course length by 93 yards, which in turn changed par from 71 to 72.

As a restricted field event on the PGA Tour, only the first 70 players on the previous year's 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.

Being compared to Arnold Palmer so often, it seems only fitting that Tiger has achieved so much success at the Arnold Palmer Invitational. Besides the four consecutive victories from 2000 to 2003, Woods became just the third player in PGA Tour history to win the same event that many times, and his record 11-stroke victory in 2003 was even more impressive considering he was battling food poisoning prior to the start of the final round.

Woods then won the 2008 and 2009 tournaments, both times with birdie putts on the final hole.

Arnold Palmer, the legendary golfer and course designer, is closely connected to the Bay Hill Club & Lodge. Palmer first played the golf course in 1965 and then bought the facility in 1976.

The Championship Course at Bay Hill is a challenging course that is still suitable for players of all abilities. The golf course is straightforward with no hidden shots. There is also extensive mounding and bunkering throughout the course.

Beautiful lakes are situated throughout the course adding some scenery and creating water hazards that come into play on a few holes.

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2012 Arnold Palmer Invitational Winner - Tiger Woods wins Arnold Palmer Invitational for first PGA Tour win since 2009

Much has changed since Tiger Woods last won an official event on the PGA Tour in September of 2009, but the former No. 1 player in the world began to restore order with a stress-free, five-stroke victory over Graeme McDowell at the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill on Sunday.

The victory, Woods's seventh at this course and the 72nd of his career, was the first since his life was blown to bits when a slew of tabloid-ready infidelities were revealed in late 2009. It's also his first win since he and swing coach Sean Foley began working together in the summer of 2010, and it should ease concerns over Woods's often brittle body. At 36, his list of ailments includes a surgically repaired left knee and tender left and right Achilles tendons.

Woods began the final round a shot ahead of McDowell, and three ahead of Ernie Els and Ian Poulter, and no contenders made a move or even broke 70. The field averaged just over 74 in the final round.

McDowell doubled-bogeyed the par-4 first hole to give Woods a three-stroke lead, draining some of the drama out of the final round almost before it started. McDowell made a few dramatic long putts, but in the end it wasn't enough to catch a steady Woods, who made four birdies and two bogeys for a 70.

2011 Arnold Palmer Invitational Winner

All that stood between Martin Laird and victory at Bay Hill were two putts from just inside 90 feet on the 18th hole, which didn't seem all that long considering what he already had been through Sunday.

First was a stunning collapse that took him from a three-shot lead to a three-shot deficit in a span of seven holes. He was three shots behind when he walked off the 14th green, two shots ahead as he headed to the 17th tee.

Laird knocked the first putt up to 3 feet, then jabbed his fist when he rolled in the par putt to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational.

2010 Arnold Palmer Invitational Winner

Ernie Els is the 2010 winner of the Arnold Palmer Invitational. He has won his second start in a row and his 18th PGA TOUR victory in a Monday finish.  He hung on with two big par putts in a Monday finish at Bay Hill. He was able to make the final hole and left him at 1-under-par 71. Mr. Molinari of Italy and Kevin Na finished two shots back. Els had made a double bogey and a bogey Sunday when the final round was halted because of rain. Mr. Els saved par on the 15th hole at the end of the game. He then got up-and-down from a bunker on the 17th.