The 2025 Rocket Classic just got a jolt of star power.
The PGA Tour’s annual stop in Detroit announced more player commitments Monday, June 2, for the tournament June 26-29 at Detroit Golf Club, with the headliners including U.S. Ryder Cup captain Keegan Bradley, Patrick Cantlay, Max Homa, Min Woo Lee, a fan favorite last year, Tom Kim and Aaron Rai.
Cantlay, No. 16 in the Official World Golf Ranking, and Bradley, No. 17, join Collin Morikawa, No. 4 in the world and a two-time major winner, to form a more robust 2025 field.
Last year’s tournament field did not have a player ranked among the world’s top 20 for the first time in its six-year history, with Cameron Young the top player at No. 23. (Dustin Johnson at the 2019 Rocket was ranked No. 2 in the world, the highest-ranked golfer to ever play the tournament. He missed the cut.)
Morikawa, the top-ranked player in this year’s field, lost in heartbreaking fashion in his only appearance in Detroit in 2023 to Rickie Fowler in a three-man playoff.
Cantlay finished tied for second in 2022, his lone appearance in Detroit, five strokes behind winner Tony Finau. Bradley tied for 21st in 2023 and tied for 14th in 2021. Lee and Rai finished tied for second last year.
Australia’s Cam Davis is the defending champion, rallying to win last year on Akshay Bhatia’s shocking three-putt. Davis is the only two-time Rocket winner in Detroit.
Others in the field include past Rocket champions Davis (2024, 2021), Fowler (2023), Finau (2022) and Nate Lashley (2019), along with veterans Zach Johnson and Brandt Snedeker.
Bryson DeChambeau, the tournament’s 2020 winner, remains barred from playing on the PGA Tour after defecting to rival LIV Golf in 2022.
Also in this year’s field is NCAA Division 1 individual champion Michael La Sasso, an Ole Miss junior.
More commitments will take place up until a week before the tournament, when the 150-plus-man field begins to finalize, including the winner of The John Shippen on June 21-22 at Detroit Golf Club. Sixteen Black golfers will compete over 36 holes for one spot into the Rocket Classic.
The Tour’s seventh playing of the tournament at the Donald Ross-designed Detroit Golf Club has a $9.6 million purse.
Right after this year’s tournament, Detroit Golf Club will undergo a $16 million renovation under the direction of architect Tyler Rae. More than 100 trees will be removed, native grasses and ditches will be added, greens will be moved and enlarged and bunkers will be added. The changes, the first major transformation of the club’s North Course since it opened more than a century ago, will be revealed at the 2026 Rocket Classic.
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