Although last week’s WGC event was help in Florida the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard is normally the official start to the Florida swing of the PGA Tour.
In 1954 Dr Phillips sold his holdings to Granada Groves, a subsidiary of the Minute Maid Corporation, and retained only the raw land. Tom Barnes, a native of Minnesota, who had always wanted to build a championship golf course, took an option out on the land with his partner, Tom Dore, a Michigan businessman who surveyed the land and saw an immediate vision of what this land could become.