The Grizzly Course at The Golf Center at Kings Island

• 🏆LPGA Tour Host (1978-1989) — LPGA
• 🏆PGA Tour Host (1973-1977) — PGA Tour
• 🏆Senior PGA Tour Host (1990-2001) — PGA Tour Champions

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.