The Rocket Classic will be played one final time in late July 2026, ending an eight-year run in Detroit after Rocket Mortgage declined its option to host the event in 2027. Tournament director Mark Hollis said the 2026 event will be the last, closing a PGA Tour stop that had become a familiar summer date on the city’s golf calendar.
Hollis said the tournament has raised more than $10 million for local organizations, a total that underscores how much the event had come to mean beyond the scorecard. He said the tournament was proud of what it did for Detroit, from giving fans memorable moments to directing money toward community groups that benefited from the event’s run at Detroit Golf Club.
The decision lands at a moment when the PGA Tour is preparing broader changes under Brian Rolapp, who is expected to speak in the coming weeks about a new schedule built around two distinct buckets of tournaments. That backdrop matters because the Rocket Classic’s departure removes one of the Tour’s established Detroit stops just as the circuit is being reworked.
There is also a harder edge to the ending. The event is being shut down after years of weaker fields, even after it built a reputation as a steady local fund-raiser and brought PGA Tour golf to Detroit for nearly 13 years under the Rocket title sponsorship. The tournament’s earlier identity as the Rocket Mortgage Classic is part of that history, but the future of a replacement Detroit event after 2026 is still unclear.
For Detroit golf fans, the final Rocket Classic will be the last chance to see the event that has anchored the summer schedule for eight years. For the Tour, the unanswered question is whether the city will keep a PGA Tour stop after Rocket Mortgage walks away from 2027 and the long-running run comes to an end.
