The PGA Tour Program Change Will Have a Major Impact on the Boston Event

The PGA Tour is changing its schedule from next season, which means a significant change for the annual Boston Professional Golf Event. Boston from 2019. It will remain as the first step of the FedExCup Playoffs, which will end in August starting next year.

The Northern Trust will be held at the Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, NJ, from August 5. The Dell Technologies Championship, formerly the Deutsche Bank Championship, will end after the 2018 tournament.

The Boston TPC competed in the 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship It became the second FedExCup Playoff event during the inaugural season of the format in 2007 before undergoing a sponsorship change last year to become the championship of Dell Technologies.

With the cha Due to the timing of 2018-2019 to complete the playoffs in August and avoid the overlap with the NFL, the FedExCup playoffs were reduced from four to three and the Dell Technologies championship has been removed from the 2019 calendar to accommodate the changes. The Northern Trust will remain the first FedExCup Playoffs event.

"The Greater Boston Area is an incredibly important market for the PGA Tour, and we are excited to have a solution that will bring the PGA Tour back to Boston in 2020," said Rich Brady, Executive Director. of the Dell Technologies Championship.

"We are incredibly fortunate that our partner Northern Trust has agreed to host their event in New York in 2019 and in Boston in 2020, which allows us to continue to bring playoff golf The loyal fans of this tournament who have the habit of seeing the biggest names in the PGA Tour at TPC Boston will continue to attend one of the best professional golf courses in a FedExCup event. Significant importance. "

Last summer, news emerged that the PGA Tour wanted to move the PGA Championship in May as part of a program review. Boston from per The PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan has many connections with the Boston area. He was born in Belmont and was the first director of the Deutsche Bank Championship. He was a senior executive at Fenway Sports Group before joining the PGA Tour in 2010 as Senior Vice President for Business Development.

Professional players like Rory McIlroy and Keegan Bradley in New England have already expressed interest in TPC Boston. . Last year, McIlroy called the Dell Technologies Championship "one of the best-attended and best-supported events of the year."

Bradley said the Boston TPC is a place where members are eager to come

. TPC Boston was designed by Arnold Palmer before being transformed in 2007, under the direction of renowned golf architect Gil Hanse, with the advice of former PGA Tour player Brad Faxon

. Par 72, the 7,241-yard course will host the Dell Technologies Championship for the last time from August 30 to September 4.

The dates for 2020 Northern Trust have not been set. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which will include golf, will run from July 24 to August 9.

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