New event, new venue & new sponsor for Deutsche Bank C'ship

BY Bruce Young | US PGA Tour | 2003 Deutsche Bank Championship | Preview | 27 Aug 2003

The Tournament Players Club of Boston plays host to a new event on the USPGA Tour when the Deutsche Bank Championship is staged there this week. Deutsche Bank has of course been one of the great supporters of the European Tour with Tiger Woods dominating their event in Germany in recent years and they get the pleasure of his company again this week.

The Arnold Palmer designed course opened just last year and with a purse of $US5,000,000, the course and the event are off to a flying start. The TPC of Boston is located in the suburb of Norton and measures 7178 yards with a par of 72. The course winds it’s way through existing vegetation and natural wetlands to provide a stunning vista for the players on course.

The event will start on Friday as opposed to Thursday for most events on the USPGA Tour and will finish on Monday September 1st, a public holiday (Labor Day) in the USA.

Tiger Woods, Jim Furyk, Vijay Singh, Nick Price, Robert Allenby, Darren Clarke, Chad Campbell and Rich Beem are among the leading players entered.

Australasians other than Allenby are Appleby, Alker, Aaron Baddeley, Greg Chalmers, Gavin Coles, Mattie Goggin, Peter Lonard, James Mclean, Greg Norman, Geoff Ogilvy, Anthony Painter, Rod Pampling, Craig Perks, Adam Scott and John Senden with Paul Gow hoping to get a start via the alternate bench. Gow is currently eighth alternate.