ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Arnold Palmer Invitational will have fewer commercials and more emphasis on data and player-caddie interactions as part of a pilot program a key sponsor has endorsed.
On Wednesday morning, Golfweek sat down with PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan at Bay Hill to discuss the state of negotiations with the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund and Donald Trump, criticism of his job performance and where he thinks golf is headed in the coming years.
Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, site of the 2025 Arnold Palmer Invitational Presented by Mastercard on the PGA Tour, opened in 1961 with a design by Dick Wilson. Arnold Palmer took over the property on lease in 1970, bought it in 1975 and made adjustments to the course multiple times over the following decades.
The future format of the Tour Championship will be debated late Tuesday at a meeting of the PGA Tour Player Advisory Council at Bay Hill Lodge & Club.
The PGA Tour said there will be fewer commercials during this week’s coverage of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge and that more player-caddie conversations will be aired. “In addition to wanting more live golf action,