Inverrary Country Club is a 36-hole private
golf
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible.
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club located in
Lauderhill, Florida
Lauderhill, officially the City of Lauderhill, is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census,the city's population was 74,482. It is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,01 ...
, northwest of
Fort Lauderdale
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. Founded in 1970, both 18-hole courses were designed by
Robert Trent Jones Sr.
Tour events
Inverrary East Course hosted a late winter
PGA Tour
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event for a decade beginning in
1972
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. The tour event was hosted by entertainer
Jackie Gleason
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in the 1970s, and is now
The Honda Classic
The Honda Classic is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour in south Florida. It was founded in 1972 as Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic, and prior to a schedule change in 2021 was frequently the first of the Florida events in late winter ...
.
The East Course was also the site of the
Tournament Players Championship That TPC event was won by
Jack Nicklaus
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,
and Nicklaus also won the next two Gleason events, for wins in three consecutive years at the course.
In the early 1990s on the
LPGA Tour
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, it was the site of
The Phar-Mor at Inverrary
The Phar-Mor at Inverrary was a women's professional golf tournament in Florida on the LPGA Tour, held from 1990 through 1992. The 54-hole event was played in February at the Inverrary Country Club in Lauderhill, northwest of Fort Lauderdale. It ...
.
References
External links
*{{official, http://www.inverrarygolf.com/
Golf clubs and courses in Florida
Golf clubs and courses designed by Robert Trent Jones
Buildings and structures in Broward County, Florida
1970 establishments in Florida
Sports venues completed in 1970