Inverrary Country Club was a 36-hole private

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club located in

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, northwest of

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. Founded in 1970, both 18-hole courses were designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. The course has been shut down since 2020.

Tour events

Inverrary East Course hosted a late winter

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event for a decade beginning in

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. The tour event was hosted by entertainer

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in the 1970s, and is now The Honda Classic. The East Course was also the site of the Tournament Players Championship That TPC event was won by

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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

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, it was the site of The Phar-Mor at Inverrary.

References

{{reflist Golf clubs and courses in Florida Golf clubs and courses designed by Robert Trent Jones Sports venues in Broward County, Florida 1970 establishments in Florida Sports venues completed in 1970