Rocket Classic Power Rankings

The Signature Events are behind us and with just one major left in the season, the race to the FedEx Cup and Ryder Cup is hotting up.

Captain Keegan Bradley broke Tommy Fleetwood’s heart at the Travelers Championship, denying the Englishman a first PGA Tour title with a two-shot swing on the final hole, entering the Ryder Cup conversation himself.

While around half of Team USA is likely locked in place, there are still plenty of places up for grabs with players also hoping to climb the FedEx Cup standings.

The PGA Tour heads to Detroit Golf Club for the Rocket Classic. Held at the Donald Ross-designed venue since 2019, the average winning score has been better than 22-under-par, so prepare yourself for a birdie fest.

Although it’s not the longest of courses, it’s also not a particularly strategic course; players will be encouraged to pull driver out of the bag on most holes and swing away without too much penalty for inaccuracy off the tee, though the four-inch rough means players won’t want to be too wild.

On approach, most clubs in the bag will be used, though nearly half of approach shots will come from inside 150 yards, so players will need a strong wedge game.

But with such a straightforward tee-to-green test, it will ultimately come down to who holes the most putts.

Sandwiched in between majors, Signature Events and trips across the Atlantic means it’s not the strongest field lining up in Detroit this week, with neither Rory McIlroy nor Scottie Scheffler teeing it up for the first time since the Valero Texas Open.

With that in mind, who tops our Rocket Classic Power Rankings? Find out below.

5 – Cameron Young

Cameron Young has steadily been falling down the world rankings from his high of 13th a year ago to a low of 67th after the PGA Championship, but his form has turned a corner.

Young was seventh at the Signature Truist Championship, T25 at the Signature Memorial Tournament, T4 at the RBC Canadian Open and T4 at the US Open. These are strong finishes in big tournaments and he’s largely got the flat stick to thank.

Young’s always been a streaky putter but of late he’s been red-hot, ranking third at the US Open for strokes gained: putting.

He’s not quite bombing it like he did a couple of years ago but can certainly get the ball out there.

Young lost in a play-off in 2022 and was well place going into the final round last year. 2025 could be the year he picks up his first PGA Tour win.

4 – Ben Griffin

It may only be a purple patch, but Ben Griffin is currently one of the best players in the world. He’s picked up speed off the tee which won’t do him any harm at Detroit while the rest of his game is currently razor-sharp.

In his last five outings, Griffin has gained strokes in 19 out of the 20 strokes gained categories, and that’s come at the PGA Championship, the Charles Schwab Challenge (which he won), the Memorial Tournament, the US Open and the Travelers Championship. In that time, his worse finish is 14 and these are in stacked fields.

Although Griffin doesn’t have much form in Detroit (T33-T31), he has two top-10s at the Donald Ross-designed Sedgefield Country Club, and a T2 at the Ross-inspired Country Club of Jackson.

Griffin has also been selected as a player to back in our Rocket Classic tips.

3 – Keegan Bradley

Keegan Bradley is given himself the mother of all selection headaches as we approach the Ryder Cup. Unlikely to qualify automatically, does he pick himself? If anyone else were captain (aside from Zach Johnson perhaps, though even he might be persuaded this time), they’d have Bradley in a heartbeat, but picking yourself comes with baggage.

Bradley has gained strokes on the field in 14 of his 15 events this season. Of those 15, eight were Signature Events, three were majors and one was the Players Championship.

Bradley is driving the ball well, striking his irons nicely and putted the lights out en route to a second Travelers win last week.

Bradley has a respectable record in Detroit – T45-T14-T44-T21, but can improve on that significantly this week.

2 – Collin Morikawa

By Collin Morikawa’s lofty standards, he’s mired in something of a lull at the moment with no top-15s in his last seven outings, some of which have come at courses that really should have fit his eye.

Detroit is another – players will need to give themselves plenty of birdie looks, which Morikawa’s iron play usually facilitates, and from there it’s about converting.

He did that on his only Rocket Classic appearance in 2023, losing in a play-off to Rickie Fowler.

Morikawa doesn’t need a huge turnaround in form to contend here, and nobody would be surprised to see him high on the leaderboard on Sunday.

1 – Patrick Cantlay

It’s been a rather inconsistent 2025 for Patrick Cantlay after a strong end to 2024, struggling to put back-to-back tournaments together. In recent weeks Cantlay has finished T4-MC-T12-MC-T12, with those two missed cuts coming at majors – where, in his defence, Cantlay never seems to have his best stuff for whatever reason.

But Cantlay is often at his best on the easier tests. Of his eight PGA Tour wins, six have come with a winning score of 19-under-par or better.

Despite his west coast background, Cantlay thrives further afield, with wins in Ohio (twice), Maryland, and Delaware and plenty of other good showings the further away he gets from the sunnier climbs of Texas and California.

Cantlay was excellent on his Rocket Classic debut in 2022, finishing T2 but five shots back of runaway winner Tony Finau.

It’s nearly three years since Cantlay was in the winners’ circle; that run could come to an end this week.