The tournament was founded in 2000 as the Tampa Bay Classic while it was originally an alternate event played the same week as the Presidents Cup in 2000. This year the competition will be taking place at the Innisbrook Resort and Golf Club located at Tampa Bay Florida.

In terms of money, this tournament is more attractive for the players. The total purse is $5.4 million with a winner share of $972,000.

Also, in addition to that huge prize the winner gets 500 FedEx Cup points that are really useful for the playoffs competition. From the last three editions of this tournament we can recall that the United States was in the first place a total of two times.

We can remember that Retief Goosen (South Africa) won the competition in 2008 with 276 (-8to par), while Sean O'Hair (USA) won on 2008 with a score of 280 (-4 to par) and Mark Calcavecchia (USA) won the competition on 2007 also with a score of 274 (-10 to par).