What Happened to Jackie Gleason's Golf Tournament?

#Americanfairways #Golf #documentary Jackie Gleason took up golf late, moved his whole TV show to Florida to play every day, and ran a PGA Tour event with the biggest purse in golf. Nine years later his name came off it. Today the course it was played on is closed. From "Hello, ball" on The Honeymooners to Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic, this is the story of the Great One's golf tournament: the 1964 train to Miami Beach, Glea Manor on the fairway at Inverrary, Nicklaus, Palmer, Trevino and Bob Hope at the pro-am, the 1976 Tournament Players Championship, the car company that took the title in 1981, the Phar-Mor twist, and the neighborhood in Lauderhill that is now voting on whether golf will ever come back. Chapters 00:00 Hello, ball 03:06 The kid from Brooklyn 07:05 The Mothership 08:13 Where the two timelines meet 09:06 1964: the train to Miami Beach 12:13 The King and the Great One 12:47 Inverrary 14:21 The course closes 15:55 Jackie Gleason's Inverrary Classic 19:33 1976: the tour takes his place 21:54 Smokey, a President and Larry Nelson 24:07 The New Inverrary 27:38 1981: a car company's name 32:05 The Phar-Mor twist 34:37 The Great One's last years 37:37 The Cognizant Classic 39:39 So, what happened?