Playoffs preview: Quick look at '09 Deutsche Bank Champ.

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TPC Boston will host the Deutsche Bank Championship for the seventh season, but it will be a different course from years past.

Preview: 2009 Playoffs

The Barclays Deutsche Bank Championship BMW Championship THE TOUR Championship

FIELD SIZE: Top 100 in the PGA TOUR Playoff standings

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LOOKING FORWARD: Only the top 70 in the standings advance to the following week's BMW Championship.

TV: GOLF CHANNEL/NBC

LAST YEAR: Vijay Singh made three, long birdie putts en route to a final-round 63 to win by five strokes for his second consecutive Playoff win and third victory in five weeks.

COURSE: TPC Boston, Norton, Mass.

SUMMARY: This is the third consecutive year that this Labor Day weekend event, which finishes on Monday, has been played at a revamped TPC Boston.

PGA TOUR member Brad Faxon and course architects Gil Hanse and Jim Wagner were brought in following the 2006 tournament to rework the Arnold Palmer-designed course and give it more of a New England feel, along the lines of Massachusetts' legendary courses such as Myopia Hunt Club, The Country Club and Kittansett Golf Club.

A couple of holes to keep an eye on are the drivable par-4 fourth, which measures 298 yards, and the 161-yard, par-3 16th, which has a pond guarding the front of the green. Features include stack-sodded bunkers, chocolate-drop mounds, wispy fescue and rock walls.

LOCAL KNOWLEDGE: "The course really doesn't favor one style of player, and it can be played conservatively or aggressively. We made lots of holes with choices and a chance to make some birdies on the last few holes.

"The course really has changed to have a New England-style look to it and is fun to play." -- Brad Faxon