In the PGA Tour’s final visit to Detroit – for now, at least – is the 2026 field for the Rocket Classic its best ever?
The 145-person field for the event – scheduled to run July 30-Aug. 2 at Detroit Golf
Club – was announced on Friday, July 24.
This year’s group features four players in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Rankings – Nos. 3, 5, 7 and 9, in Cameron Young, Russell Henley, Chris Gotterup and Wyndham Clark (who won this year’s U.S. Open) – as well as eight in the top 20. The field has an additional burst of star power in Brooks Koepka, Xander Schauffele and Jordan Spieth, a trio making its Detroit debut.
The Rocket will also feature the PGA Tour’s latest buzzworthy golfer in Michael Kim; the 33-year-old carded a 59 in the second round of the 3M Open in Minnesota on Friday, becoming just the 15th Tour player to hit the magic number (or lower).
There are 10 previous major winners, plus four previous winners in Detroit: 2025’s champion, Aldrich Potgieter, is back to defend his crown, while Cam Davis (2024 and 2021), Rickie Fowler (2023) and Tony Finau (2022) will join him in the Motor City.
Davis is the only two-time winner of the event, winning the 2024 tournament on the final hole after a collapse from runner-up Akshay Bhatia (who is also returning for the final Rocket Classic).
The full list of golfers in the field so far (four more will be added via qualifying on Monday):
Rocket Classic field 2026
- Zach Bauchou
- Christiaan Bezuidenhout
- Akshay Bhatia
- Chandler Blanchet
- Keegan Bradley
- Michael Brennan
- Jacob Bridgeman
- Dan Brown
- Brian Campbell
- Rafael Campos
- Patrick Cantlay
- Ricky Castillo
- Davis Chatfield
- Luke Clanton
- Wyndham Clark
- Eric Cole
- Corey Conners
- Pierceson Coody
- Trace Crowe
- Joel Dahmen
- Brad Dalke
- Cam Davis
- Jason Day
- Zecheng Dou
- Adrien Dumont de Chassart
- Nick Dunlap
- Nico Echavarria
- Austin Eckroat
- Harris English
- A.J. Ewart
- Tony Finau
- Patrick Fishburn
- Steven Fisk
- Rickie Fowler
- Brice Garnett
- Ryan Gerard
- Doug Ghim
- Lucas Glover
- Chris Gotterup
- Max Greyserman
- Ben Griffin
- Emiliano Grillo
- Harry Hall
- Russell Henley
- Garrick Higgo
- Joe Highsmith
- Kensei Hirata
- Ryo Hisatsune
- Lee Hodges
- Rico Hoey
- Tom Hoge
- Nicolai Højgaard
- Rasmus Højgaard
- Joe Hooks
- Billy Horschel
- Beau Hossler
- Mark Hubbard
- Mackenzie Hughes
- Sungjae Im
- Ben James
- William Jennings
- Takumi Kanaya
- Jeffrey Kang
- Johnny Keefer
- Michael Kim
- Si Woo Kim
- Chris Kirk
- Patton Kizzire
- Jake Knapp
- Brooks Koepka
- Jackson Koivun
- Christo Lamprecht
- Hank Lebioda
- Haotong Li
- David Lipsky
- Peter Malnati
- Hideki Matsuyama
- Stefano Mazzoli
- Denny McCarthy
- Matt McCarty
- Max McGreevy
- Maverick McNealy
- Mac Meissner
- Keith Mitchell
- Taylor Moore
- William Mouw
- Keita Nakajima
- Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen
- Andrew Novak
- Pontus Nyholm
- Thorbjørn Olesen
- John Parry
- Matthieu Pavon
- Taylor Pendrith
- Marco Penge
- Chandler Phillips
- Aldrich Potgieter
- Seamus Power
- Andrew Putnam
- Chad Ramey
- Davis Riley
- Patrick Rodgers
- Kevin Roy
- Marcelo Rozo
- Ryan + Ruffels
- Adrien Saddier
- Gordon Sargent
- Xander Schauffele
- Adam Schenk
- Matti Schmid
- Neal Shipley
- Webb Simpson
- Jordan Smith
- Austin Smotherman
- Brandt Snedeker
- J.J. Spaun
- Jordan Spieth
- Sam Stevens
- Kevin Streelman
- Jackson Suber
- Adam Svensson
- Jesper Svensson
- Nick Taylor
- Davis Thompson
- Michael Thorbjornsen
- Brendon Todd
- Alejandro Tosti
- Erik van Rooyen
- John VanDerLaan
- Kristoffer Ventura
- Karl Vilips
- Danny Walker
- Matt Wallace
- Vince Whaley
- Patrick Wilkes-Krier
- Aaron Wise
- Dylan Wu
- Sudarshan Yellamaraju
- Cameron Young
- Kevin Yu
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Rocket Classic field 2026: 4 top-10 golfers in Detroit PGA Tour event
