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Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Club and Lodge better than ever after reconstruction

March 25, 2010

By Erik Peterson, Staff Writer - OrlandoGolf.com ORLANDO, Fla. - One of Florida's best golf courses recently received a facelift, but if you ask the surgeon with the scalpel, it was about more than just cosmetics. "The opinion is that we make courses harder and harder," Arnold Palmer said of renovating Bay Hill Club & Lodge, the course he's owned and lived at for more than 40 years. "Our purpose has changed a little bit. We decided to rethink that." Some of the changes were made with the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational in mind - most notably converting Nos. 4 and 16 to true par 5s - but a few significant changes to the golf course are meant to inject more versatility into how Bay Hill plays for you, the resort golfer. Read the full story on OrlandoGolf.com

Posted: March 25, 2010 10:06 AM