Replacing the
Air Canada Championship in
British Columbia on the tour schedule, the tournament made its debut in
2003 as the Deutsche Bank Championship. It was held at the
Tournament Players Club of Boston in
Norton, Massachusetts, south-southwest of
Boston. Unlike most PGA Tour events which are played Thursday through Sunday, this tournament was played Friday through Monday, with the final round on Labor Day. It became part of the first-year
FedEx Cup playoffs in
2007, with its purse increased to $7 million. The purse in
2018 was $9.0 million, with a winner's share of $1.62 million. As the second of the four playoff events, its field was limited to the top 100 players on the FedEx Cup points list. Points were amassed during the PGA Tour's regular season and the first playoff event,
The Northern Trust, which took place the previous week in the
New York City area.
Deutsche Bank sponsored the first 14 editions of the tournament, through 2016. In 2017,
Dell Technologies, which had a new subsidiary
Dell EMC headquartered in Massachusetts, took over as the title sponsor of the tournament. The event was managed by the
Tiger Woods Foundation from 2013 to 2016, after which it was managed by the PGA Tour. ==Television==