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For more than 30 years, the Florida Swing on the PGA TOUR included four tournaments with two stops in south Florida, one in central Florida and one in north Florida. With the debut of the FedExCup in 2007, the Florida Swing still includes four tournaments but has a completely different look.

Here's what to look for when the PGA TOUR comes to the Sunshine State for a month, beginning this week:

A scenic shot from Bay Hill. (Cohen/WireImage)

• The Honda Classic, Feb. 26-March 4: The tournament starts the Florida Swing at a new site and with a new host organization. The tournament will be played in Palm Beach Gardens at the PGA National Resort & Spa's Champions Course, which was the site of the 1983 Ryder Cup Matches and the 1987 PGA Championship, won by Larry Nelson in a playoff with Lanny Wadkins. Barbara Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus' wife, is the chairperson of the newly created Children's Healthcare Charity, Inc., which operates The Honda Classic, with The Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation the primary beneficiary.

• PODS Championship, March 5-11: PODS Enterprises, Inc., an international provider of mobile storage and moving solutions, is the recently named title sponsor for this event, which moves into spring for the first time. The Copperhead Course at the Innisbrook Resort near Tampa will be the site of a PGA TOUR tournament for the second time in five months. K.J. Choi won the tournament there last October. The Tampa area had been the site of a fall TOUR event since a team event began there in 1977.

• Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard, March 12-18: After having host course Bay Hill in its name since 1979, the tournament this year honored host Arnold Palmer by naming the tournament for him. In addition, the decision was made to play Bay Hill at par 70, with the fourth and 16th holes converted to par 4s.

• World Golf Championships-CA Championship, March 19-25: Tiger Woods will be the double defending champion in this spot on the schedule previously occupied by THE PLAYERS Championship, which moves to a May date this year. Woods won on the Blue Course at the Doral Resort and Spa last March and then captured the World Golf Championships-American Express Championship in England last fall. CA, founded in 1976 as Computer Associates, became the title sponsor of the World Golf Championships event that moved to Miami this year. This date is three weeks later for Doral than in previous years.