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Rocket Mortgage Classic

Where is the Rocket Mortgage Classic?

Detroit Golf Club is the host of this week’s event on the PGA Tour – the Rocket Mortgage Classic!

 

For the first time in four weeks, the PGA Tour holds a ‘normal’ event, and it is the Rocket Mortgage Classic!

The Rocket Mortgage Classic is one of the youngest events on the PGA Tour schedule, with this being just the sixth edition of the competition.

The event dates back to just 2019, with Nate Lashley, Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Davis, Tony Finau and most recently, Rickie Fowler (below), being victorious.

The Rocket Mortgage Classic made history with its inception, as it became the first ever PGA Tour event to be hosted within the city limits of Detroit.

It remains so to this day. The Detroit Golf Club will once again play host to the 2024 edition of the competition, a 36-hole venue in the state capital of Michigan.

Donald Ross was the man behind the design of both the North and South Courses at Detroit GC, and it is the South Course in which the tournament is played over.

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Rocket Mortgage Classic: The Details

  • Dates: June 27-30, 2024
  • Course: Detroit GC, Detroit, Michigan, United States
  • Par: 72
  • Length: 7,370 yards
  • Prize purse: $9.2 million
  • Defending champion: Rickie Fowler (-24)

Everything you need to know about the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic

Check out our coverage of the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic – from frequently asked questions, to the competition’s unique heritage, and how the course is shaping up – by reading and clicking on some of the links below.

Frequently Asked Questions about the Rocket Mortgage Classic

When and where will the Rocket Mortgage Classic take place?

The 2024 edition of the Rocket Mortgage Classic will take place between June 27-30. As always, the event will be held at the Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan.

Who won last season’s tournament?

Rickie Fowler was the victor last year in Detroit, ending a four-year drought without a win on the PGA Tour. He was victorious in a playoff, beating Adam Hadwin and Collin Morikawa to lift the trophy.

What is the history around the Rocket Mortgage Classic?

The event is one of the newest on the PGA Tour, dating back only to 2019, and it replaced the Quicken Loans National on the PGA Tour’s schedule.

The Rocket Mortgage Classic has always been hosted at the Detroit Golf Club, and the tournament became the first PGA Tour event to ever be held within the city limits of Detroit.

Due to its short history, there are no multiple winners of the Rocket Mortgage Classic. Nate Lashley was the first victor of the tournament in 2019.

Bryson DeChambeau, Cameron Davis, Tony Finau and defending champion Fowler are the other four men to have won the tournament, with Davis being the only non-American to have been victorious in Detroit.

How do golfers qualify to play in Detroit?

The RBC Canadian Open is one of the full-field tournaments on the PGA Tour. The tour has a standardised system which it uses to determine who makes the field based on the Priority Ranking, along with other categories.

Here are the categories of entries for the 2024 edition:

  • Winners of the PGA Championship, Open Championship and Players Championship in the last five years
  • Winners of a PGA Tour event in the last two years
  • Past champions of the Rocket Mortgage Classic
  • Top 30 on the FedEx Cup Points List for the current season
  • Top 70 on last year’s FedEx Cup Points List through the FedEx Cup Playoffs
  • Top 125 on last year’s FedEx Cup Points List through the FedEx Cup Fall
  • Top 10 and ties from previous event
  • Top 10 from last year’s DP World Tour rankings
  • Top 30 from last year’s Korn Ferry Tour Points List
  • Top 5 and ties from PGA Tour Q-School presented by Korn Ferry
  • Top player on the PGA Tour University list
  • Tournament, sponsors and other exemptions

What are the odds for the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic?

Betting for the 2024 tournament is live via bet365.

You can check out our betting preview for the week’s action, which also includes the US Senior Open, when it goes live. We will include a link here when it does.

Is there a cut at the Rocket Mortgage Classic?

There will be a cut at the halfway stage in Detroit. Those that are within the top 65 and ties will make it through to the weekend to have a shot at winning the tournament on Sunday evening.

Can LIV Golf players feature in the event?

No, they cannot. With it being an official PGA Tour event, we won’t be seeing any LIV Golf players teeing it up in Texas.

The 2020 winner of the Rocket Mortgage Classic – Bryson DeChambeau – now plies his trade in the LIV Golf League.

How can I watch the Rocket Mortgage Classic?

The event will be broadcast around the world by various broadcast partners. In the United Kingdom, action from all four days of the tournament will be shown live on Sky Sports – with the following schedule:

  • Thursday 27th – Sky Sports Golf from 5pm
  • Friday 28th – Sky Sports Golf from 5pm
  • Saturday 29th – Sky Sports Golf from 5pm
  • Sunday 30th – Sky Sports Golf from 4:30pm

Comprehensive coverage, including live scoring, shot-by-shot data, and player highlights, will be available on the PGA Tour’s website and app.

How much will the winner take home from Detroit?

The winner of the the tournament will pocket $1,656,000 from the total prize purse of $9,200,000.

Are you excited to see who will win the Rocket Mortgage Classic once again? Who do you think will take the title? Let us know with a post on X, formerly Twitter!

Matt Coles

Matt Coles

Mention a European country, and Matt will tell you which resorts make the National Club Golfer Top 100s: European Resorts list. He might even throw in who designed the golf course and how many rooms the hotel has got at each one…

Matt got into the game of golf from a young age, following his old man to the local golf club. He fell for the sport, and now can’t seem to go a day without thinking about how to improve his game (Thanks Dad!). Matt has been a member of Howley Hall GC in Leeds since 2020, and is just about managing to maintain a single-figure handicap. He likes to remind people that he once broke 75, but won’t tell people that it was on a shortened course during the winter.

He moved to Leeds after graduating from the University of Central Lancashire with a First Class Honours degree in Sports Journalism. Matt joined NCG after almost five years travelling the world with the Professional Squash Association, working on events in all four corners of the globe.

Matt currently plays a Cobra King LTDx driver and RadSpeed 3-wood. TaylorMade monopolise the rest of his bag, with a SIM UDI, M5 irons and both Milled Grind and HI-TOE wedges, along with a Monza Redline putter. He uses a Vice Pro Plus golf ball, because he’s a bit different…

Away from golf, Matt is a Manchester United fan, and a keen runner, having ran the Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon (his first and possibly last), in May 2023.

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