2025 Rocket Classic betting tips: Our expert tipster’s top picks in Detroit

2025 Rocket Classic betting tips from Today's Golfer.

Tom Jacobs picks out his top Rocket Classic betting tips ahead of the PGA Tour event from Detroit Golf Club…

The eagle-eyed among you will have noticed that, for its seventh edition, title sponsors Rocket Mortgage have dropped the debt, so to speak, in Detroit and rebranded as the Rocket Classic.

The event also marks the penultimate stateside stop before the PGA Tour heads over to the links of the British and Irish Isles for the run-in to the 2025 Open Championship at Royal Portrush.

Bryson DeChambeau, Tony Finau, and Rickie Fowler all feature on the event’s short roll-call of champions, as does Australian Cameron Davis, who has two victories to his name, defending again this year after his one-stroke win last time out.

Before revealing my Rocket Classic betting tips, here’s everything else you need to know…

Rocket Classic key details

Dates: 26-29 June 2025

Venue: Detroit Golf Club, Michigan (Par 72 – 7,370 yards)

Format: 72-hole strokeplay with 36-hole cut

Purse: $9.6 million with the winner receiving an estimated $1.65m

FedEx Cup points: 500

Favorites: Collin Morikawa 12/1

Defending champion: Cameron Davis (AUS), -18

Most wins: Cameron Davis (AUS), 2 – 2021, 2024

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How to watch the Rocket Classic

US viewers can catch all the action on the Golf Channel.

All times EDT

Thursday, June 26: The Golf Channel, TBC
Friday, June 27: The Golf Channel, TBC
Saturday, June 28: The Golf Channel, TBC
Sunday, June 29: The Golf Channel, TBC

UK viewers can catch all the action on Sky Sports Golf.

All times BST

Thursday, June 26: Sky Sports Golf, 20.00
Friday, June 27: Sky Sports Golf, 20.00
Saturday, June 28: Sky Sports Golf, 18.00
Sunday, June 29: Sky Sports Golf, 18.00

Rocket Classic tee times

Tee times and groupings can be found here.

Rocket Classic betting tips

Right, this week I’ve got three main tips and I’ve even thrown in a little bonus pick for you too!

The Longshot: Rico Hoey

100/1 e/w (SpreadEx 6 Places)

Rico Hoey has some solid Donald Ross form under his belt, having won the Knoxville Open on the Korn Ferry Tour and following that up with a 6th-place finish here on debut last year. He’s also finished 22nd at the Wyndham Championship, where he was only two shots outside the top 10.

Hoey leads the Tour in Total Driving and ranks 4th in SG Off the Tee, trailing Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, and Niklas Norgaard. He’s in elite company with the driver then, and that will stand him in good stead this week, as it did 12 months ago.

He grew into the event last year, saving his best round until last, but if he can get off to a quicker start here, something he’s proven more than capable of throughout his career, he could get in the mix at a course that plays to his strengths. His form is a bit hit and miss, but he was 9th going into the final round last time in Canada, he finished 7th at Myrtle Beach, and opened with a 63 to sit 2nd after round 1 of the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, so there have been flashes. 11th in Houston correlates quite nicely, and while he tends to save his best stuff for weaker fields than this, Hoey looks a decent price based on driving prowess and his Par 5 scoring ability (15th in P5 Scoring Average).

The Outsider: Wyndham Clark

45/1 e/w (BetMGM, Unibet 6 Places)

Wyndham Clark is just about big enough for me to chance, after he played well in spells last week at the Travelers Championship, following a tough week at the U.S. Open.

Clark has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this year, but despite plenty of backlash, he was still able to perform at River Highlands last week, where he shot 64 and 66 either side of rounds of 72.

He hasn’t been able to put four rounds together for a long time, having to go back to the Houston Open (5th) for his last top 10 finish. With that said, it doesn’t take a player of his calibre long to reverse fortunes, and his effort last week looked to be a step in the right direction.

Clark can take another here, where he has played so well twice before, finishing 17th and 8th in his two starts, both before his first of his three wins on Tour, including his U.S. Open triumph.

It’s a bit of a risk because he’s not played well at all in 2025, but he showed just enough for me last week to give him a shot in a weaker field.

The Banker: Cameron Young

33/1 e/w (BetMGM, Unibet 6 Places)

After watching Tommy Fleetwood miss out on a PGA Tour win on Sunday at the Travelers, you wouldn’t be blamed for wanting to overlook Cameron Young this week. Both players are incredibly talented and have contended multiple times in majors, but when it comes to winning on the PGA Tour, they both struggle.

Young still has some time on his hands, though, having only turned pro in 2019 and only making his way onto the PGA Tour in 2022, after a two-win season on the Korn Ferry Tour in 2021.

The Rocket Classic has been a springboard in the past, with Nate Lashley and Cam Davis both picking up their first wins here since the inaugural staging in 2019. Davis went on to double up last year, showing that it’s both a good course for maidens and somewhere where form is repeatable.

That second point is good for Cam Young, then, who has played here twice and finished 2nd and 6th in those two starts. When finishing 2nd, he did so having had to bounce back from an opening 73, whereas last year it was a 73 on Sunday that put an end to his chances of a first win.

Given how well the course marries up to his skillset (see former winners Bryson DeChambeau, Cam Davis, and Tony Finau) and how well he’s played in recent weeks, this looks like the perfect opportunity for Young. Sure he fell away after a strong start last week, and we know he struggles in contention, but the same accusation was levelled at Finau once upon a time who’s won here, and Lashley and Davis are hardly the prolific types, so this might just be the sort of test Young needs to succeed. At some point, he’s got to break through and win, and it might just come at this curse, after two 4th place finishes in his last three starts, followed by an opening 65 last week.

The Bonus Pick: Chris Kirk

80/1 e/w (Paddy Power, Sky Bet 6 Places)

For my bonus pick, it is back to an old favourite. Chris Kirk owes me nothing after winning The Sentry at a big price a couple of years ago, but now I am ready for him to pull off another shock result here at the Rocket Classic.

Kirk is playing solidly, making 4 of his last 6 cuts, with two top 18 finishes, including a 12th at the U.S. Open last time out.

The biggest obstacle for Kirk here is distance off the tee, which he lacks, but that’s hardly stopped him here so far. He is 5/5 for made cuts here with three top 17 finishes, a 21st, and a 44th place finish.

When he finished 21st on debut, he was the 36-hole leader and was still in 4th place going into Sunday. He returned a year later to sit 3rd at halfway, 6th going into Sunday, and eventually settling for 17th.

That’s twice then that Kirk has been in contention at this golf course, and that should come as no surprise given his affinity with Donald Ross layouts. Like Rico Hoey, he has won at Holston Hills and also finished 2nd there. A 4th at the Tour Championship and a T8 finish at Aronimink give a further nod to Kirk enjoying this week’s architect, and he can build on a strong major performance last time out, one that was the second-best of his career.

Kirk’s 2nd-place finish at the Sanderson Farms is also worth considering as we have seen some crossover from that event, on top of all of the Donald Ross links.

He doesn’t fit the prototypical mould of a Rocket Classic winner, but Aaron Rai, Adam Hadwin, and Collin Morikawa have all overcome the distance handicap to contend here over the past two years, which Kirk can do as well. He’s already threatened to do so twice, and now he can last the full four rounds at a good price this week.