Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge is the winter home of one of golf’s greatest champions. It is the spring home of one of the PGA TOUR’s most prestigious events. And, for the fourth year, it is the summer home of one of the most widely recognized events in junior golf.

The distinguished venue is set to host the 21st-annual HP Boys Junior Championship.

“I can’t imagine a better setting than Bay Hill to host what has become one of the longest-running and most prominent events in our history,” said Jeremy Freyman, HP Boys Junior Championship tournament director. “With its history, prestige and quality, it is the perfect venue for the HP Boys Junior Championship.”

Bay Hill is a course that “has everything Arnold Palmer admires in a golf course: wide open fairways that provide plenty of room to swing the driver, risk/reward options that will tempt the go-for-broker in you and multiple rows of bunkers protecting spacious and well-defined greens.”

Built in 1961, Bay Hill first welcomed Palmer in 1965 when he played in a golf exhibition at the facility. After shooting a 66, he fell in love with the course and decided to make it his winter home.

It was in 1970 when he and a group of partners purchased the Club & Lodge. Today, he serves as the primary owner along with two other business associates and is president of “The Bay Hill Club.” To this day, he still maintains a high profile at the club.

“He’s very active at the club,” said Brian Dorn, director of golf at Bay Hill. “He keeps his home here (in the winter months) and it’s not uncommon to see him six to seven times a week around the club and the golf course.”

The home of one of golf’s greatest champions is now home to one of junior golf’s most prestigious events. And with the annual presence of today’s best professionals when the PGA TOUR makes its swing through Florida, Bay Hill can proudly lay claim to hosting the past, present and future of golf.

“It’s pretty neat to have the best players in the world and the best junior players at our facility in the same year,” Dorn said. “We’re very excited. Anytime we can get the best future golfers at our facility, that’s a great feather in our cap.”