With the FedExCup Playoffs and Presidents Cup drawing ever closer, the PGA TOUR returns this week to the Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit.
Plenty of big-name stars are set to tee it up, plus some promising young players fresh out of college, still in college, or even still in high school.
And of course, who could forget the epic three-man playoff last year – which led to Rickie Fowler’s first TOUR title since 2019.
Here’s everything you need to know about the Rocket Mortgage Classic.
FIELD NOTES: Rickie Fowler returns to defend his title after breaking his win drought last year. He would be the first back-to-back winner in the tournament’s short history… Cameron Young, who shot 59 at the Travelers Championship, heads back to Detroit for the first time since 2022 when he finished runner-up… Michael Thorbjornsen will make his second start as a pro after debuting at the Travelers Championship (T39). He finished atop the PGA TOUR University ranking in May (thereby earning PGA TOUR membership for the remainder of the 2024 and 2025 season) after four celebrated seasons at Stanford… Tom Kim is back in action after falling to Scottie Scheffler in a playoff at the Travelers. Kim missed the cut last year in Detroit but was T7 the year prior. He has two top 10s in his last four starts… Will Zalatoris will play in Detroit, having made the cut in his two previous starts there. Has found some consistency after back surgery last year, having made 11 of 15 cuts this season… Min Woo Lee continues his run to the Presidents Cup team. Lee has made 11 of 12 cuts this season and comes into the week off a T21 at the U.S. Open. This is his debut at Detroit Golf Club… Other notable in-season winners to tee it up this week include Jake Knapp, Nick Dunlap, Akshay Bhatia, Stephan Jaeger and Taylor Pendrith (T14-2 in his two starts at Detroit Golf Club).
| HIGHEST-RANKED PLAYERS IN THE FIELD | |
| World Ranking | FedExCup |
| 16. Tom Kim | 15. Akshay Bhatia |
| 23. Cameron Young | 22. Chris Kirk |
| 29. Akshay Bhatia | 23. Stephan Jaeger |
| 33. Chris Kirk | 30. Taylor Pendrith |
| 36. Min Woo Lee | 34. Cameron Young |
| 41. Stephan Jaeger | 37. Robert MacIntyre |
| 42. Will Zalatoris | 38. Will Zalatoris |
| 44. Robert MacIntyre | 39. Tom Kim |
| 45. Nicolai Højgaard | 45. Jake Knapp |
| 50. Rickie Fowler | 46. Alex Noren |
SIGNATURE EVENT STORYLINES: Last week’s Travelers Championship marked the final Signature Event on the PGA TOUR schedule… This season's Signature Event winners were Chris Kirk (The Sentry), Wyndham Clark (AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am), Hideki Matsuyama (Genesis Invitational), Rory McIlroy (Wells Fargo Championship) and, of course, Scottie Scheffler, who won the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard, THE PLAYERS Championship, the RBC Heritage, the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday and the Travelers Championship.
COMCAST BUSINESS TOUR TOP 10: After his win at the Travelers – his sixth of the season – Scottie Scheffler continued his dominance in the TOUR TOP 10… The rest of the 10 remained unchanged, but Wyndham Clark and Ludvig Åberg swapped spots, as did Hideki Matsuyama and Sahith Theegala and Patrick Cantlay and Byeong Hun An… Despite withdrawing due to illness at the Travelers, An is still the only golfer all season to be inside the TOUR TOP 10 every week.
FEDEXCUP: Winner receives 500 FedExCup points.
COURSE: Detroit Golf Club (North Course), par 72, 7,370 yards (yardage subject to change). The Donald Ross design dates to 1906 and was updated for the TOUR’s initial arrival in 2019.
The South Course’s first hole is used as the third hole for the tournament. The club is set to undergo a renovation, starting with the North Course, after the completion of next year’s Rocket Mortgage Classic. Every aspect of the layout will be updated, including the drainage and irrigation system.
72-HOLE RECORD: 262, Tony Finau (2022)
18-HOLE RECORD: 63, Nate Lashley (2019, first round), J.T. Poston (2019, second round), Davis Thompson (2021, first round), Cameron Young (2022, second round), Tom Kim (2022, fourth round), Adam Hadwin (2023, third round), Stephan Jaeger (2023, fourth round), Andrew Landry (2023, second round).
LAST TIME: Rickie Fowler broke a four-year win drought, defeating Adam Hadwin and Collin Morikawa in a playoff. Morikawa fired a final-round 64 (and missed a 16-footer for birdie on the 72nd hole) while Hadwin backed up his tournament-scoring record 63 Saturday with a 5-under 67 to close. Fowler rifled his approach shot on No. 18 to just three feet to make a closing birdie from 12 feet and finish at 24 under. The playoff lasted just one hole with Fowler making birdie to end it.
How to follow:
Television:- Thursday-Friday: 3-6 p.m. ET (Golf Channel).
- Saturday-Sunday: 1-3 p.m. (Golf Channel), 3-6 p.m. (CBS)
PGA TOUR Live:
| Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
| Stream 1 | Main feed: 6:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Main feed: 6:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Main feed: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. | Main feed: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. |
| Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. | |
| Stream 2 | Marquee: 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Marquee: 7:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Marquee: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. | Marquee: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. |
| Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. | |
| Stream 3 | Featured groups: 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. | Featured groups: 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m. | Featured groups: 7:45 a.m.-1 p.m. | Featured groups: 7:45 a.m.-1 p.m. |
| Featured hole: 3-6 p.m. | Featured hole: 3-6 p.m. | Featured hole: 1-6 p.m. | Featured hole: 1-6 p.m. | |
| Spanish-language main feed | Featured holes: 6:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Featured holes: 6:45 a.m.-3 p.m. | Featured holes: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. | Featured holes: 7 a.m.-1 p.m. |
| Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 3-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. | Featured group: 1-6 p.m. |
Congratulations again to last weeks winner @FSU & Golf
With another strong week, Mrs BFT maintains an overall season lead.
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