March 5, 2021 BY JOHN PERRY
Grant Miller and his lovely, golf loving daughter Isabella Miller taking in the action at the Arnold Palmer Invitational during Friday’s round. Mr. Miller says Isabella is the golfer in the family. She’s 7-years-old and started playing when she was only 5. Mr. Miller was born in Metuchen, N.J., and daughter Isabella is a Florida girl, he says. She was born right here in Orlando.
The Arnold Palmer Invitational is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played each March at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, a private golf resort owned since 1974 by Arnold Palmer in Bay Hill, a suburb southwest of Orlando, Florida.
The event was founded in 1979 as a successor to the Florida Citrus Open Invitational, which debuted in 1966 and was played at Rio Pinar Country Club, east of Orlando, through 1978. Arnold Palmer won the Florida Citrus Open in 1971.
Since 1979, the tournament title has had a number of different names, most of them including “Bay Hill,” but has played under the Palmer name since 2007. On March 21, 2012, the Arnold Palmer Invitational and MasterCard Worldwide announced an extension to MasterCard’s “Presented by” sponsorship until the 2016 tournament.
Tournament details
Date: Mar 4–7, 2021
Course: Bay Hill Golf Course
Purse: $9,300,000
John Perry is a freelance writer, poet and active golfer with a passion for calling shots like he sees them and, then, telling it like it is. He resides in Orlando, Florida. Email him your comments at johnpgolf@icloud.com
