The Grizzly Course at The Golf Center at Kings Island

Jack Nicklaus and Desmond Muirhead opened The Grizzly at Kings Island on July 1, 1972 as the third course of the Nicklaus / Muirhead design partnership. The course gets its name from Nicklaus's 'Golden Bear' nickname, and Jack himself won the inaugural 1973 Ohio Kings Island Open here, making him the first PGA Tour player to win a Tour event on a course of his own design. The Grizzly hosted the PGA Tour from 1973 through 1977, the LPGA from 1978 through 1989, and the Senior PGA Tour from 1990 through 2001, a 28-year continuous Tour-host run across three professional circuits. Daily-fee public access today at the renamed The Grizzly Golf & Social Lodge keeps it in the $-to-$$ band. For Cincinnati groups, this is the historic round, a Nicklaus-design property where Jack himself collected a PGA Tour victory.