2025 Rocket Classic PGA Tour Betting Odds
Collin Morikawa is favoured on the golf odds in a fairly watered-down field with just four of the world’s Top 20 set to play at this week’s Rocket Classic from Detroit.
No doubt the Rocket Classic – no longer known as the Rocket Mortgage Classic – is in a very tough spot on the schedule following the U.S. Open and then last week’s Travelers Championship, a Signature Event with a big-money field. Many guys already have turned their focus to heading overseas and preparing for the British Open, which tees off July 17 from Royal Portrush in Northern Ireland. We probably won’t see most top Tour guys until the week before that at the Scottish Open.
This tournament has only been around since 2019 but has already featured two playoffs. In 2021, Cam Davis defeated Tony Merritt and Joaquín Niemann to claim his first title. In 2023, Rickie Fowler birdied the first hole of the playoff to hold off Collin Morikawa and Canadian Adam Hadwin. All prior champions of the tournament, with the exception of LIV golfer Bryson DeChambeau, are set to play this week.
Davis is the defending champion as well and only two-time winner of the tournament. The Aussie finished at 18-under 270 in 2021 when he won in a playoff and then won by a shot with that score last year over Akshay Bhatia, Min Woo Lee, Aaron Rai and Davis Thompson. Bhatia should have forced another playoff but three-putted from 32 feet on the final hole.
Davis had pulled into a tie with Bhatia with a birdie on the par-5 17th hole and that proved to be enough after Bhatia’s 4-foot par attempt on the 18th missed low and left for his first three-putt of the week. I liked Swede Alex Noren last year, but that was a bust as he shot 71-75 to miss the cut.
Detroit Golf Club’s tree-lined North Course is largely the host, a very flat par 72 at around 7,370 yards with small putting surfaces. The tournament also uses the South Course’s first hole as the third hole for the event. Detroit Golf Club will undergo a $16 million renovation, including new greens, afterward.
The future of this tournament is in a bit of question with the Rocket Classic’s contract ending after 2026, though Rocket can exercise an option for 2027. Non-Signature Events like this one on Tour tend to struggle to put together a strong field and thus good tickets sales. Last year’s field was not good at all, and Detroit’s lone stop has an undesirable place on the Tour calendar.
Rocket Classic Golf Odds
American Collin Morikawa is the highest-ranked player in the world in the field at No. 4 and the +1200 favourite. He was good early this year but not very much since with his last Top 10 at the Players Championship and off a T42 at last week’s Travelers Championship. His lone time playing this event resulted in that playoff loss to Rickie Fowler in 2023.
Patrick Cantlay is +1400 with Keegan Bradley at +1600 and Ben Griffin +2000. Cantlay last played the event in 2022 and was among the runners-up. He’s off a T12 at the Travelers. Bradley, this year’s USA Ryder Cup captain, won the Travelers on Sunday for his eight career PGA Tour title. With four holes to play Sunday, Bradley trailed leader Tommy Fleetwood by three shots.
There were eight Signature Events this year and eight different guys won them. Bradley has a best finish of 14th in Detroit. Griffin’s best result is 31st, but he’s playing great in 2025 with a fifth straight Top 15 on Sunday not to mention two wins on the year. Two-time and defending champion Cam Davis is +8000. He’s having a rough year with just a single Top 10 and eight missed cuts.
Michael La Sasso (+75000), a senior at Ole Miss, will make his PGA Tour debut. He won the 2025 NCAA Division I national championship as an individual and helped lead the Rebs to a No. 1 ranking.
No Canadian has won here but a couple have finished runner-up. Ben Silverman was the top finisher last year at T17, while Roger Sloan was T31 and Taylor Pendrith T72. Adam Svensson and Angelo Giantsopoulos missed the cut. Adam Hadwin is +15000 this week, Adam Svensson +20000, Ben Silverman +20000 and Ashton McCulloch +10000.
Rocket Classic Golf Predictions
We recommend an American to win as they have four of the six years. For individual value, we like Taylor Moore at +6600. He has been 10th, fourth and sixth the past three years in Detroit.