Detroit North Course
Detroit North Course: Donald Ross (1916), restored by Tyler Rae (2025). Par 72, 7,370 yards. Michael Thorbjornsen won the 2026 Rocket Classic here with 262 (−18).
Detroit North Course: Donald Ross (1916), restored by Tyler Rae (2025). Par 72, 7,370 yards. Michael Thorbjornsen won the 2026 Rocket Classic here with 262 (−18).
Detroit North Course: Donald Ross (1916), restored by Tyler Rae (2025). Par 72, 7,370 yards. Michael Thorbjornsen won the 2026 Rocket Classic here with 262 (−18).
Updated October 24, 2026
9 editions on the record, by event, newest first.
PGA Tour
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rocket Classic Michael Thorbjornsen | 262 (−18) | by 2 strokes |
| 2025 | Aldrich Potgieter | 266 (−22) | won in a playoff |
| 2024 | Rocket Mortgage Classic Cameron Davis | 270 (−18) | by 1 stroke |
| 2023 | Rickie Fowler | 264 (−24) | won in a playoff |
| 2022 | Tony Finau | 262 (−26) | lowest winning score in this event · by 5 strokes |
| 2021 | Cameron Davis | 270 (−18) | won in a playoff |
| 2020 | Bryson DeChambeau | 265 (−23) | by 3 strokes |
| 2019 | Nate Lashley | 263 (−25) | by 6 strokes |
| Year | Champion | Score | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Danny Yates | 1 up | USGA |
Before the 2023 tournament, vandals sprayed Roundup on the 11th and 12th greens, and both had to be resodded one month before the event.
Detroit Golf Club's clubhouse was designed by Albert Kahn in 1916, and it is one of fewer than twenty clubs in North America with two 18-hole Donald Ross courses.
Source: Detroit Golf Club home page
When Donald Ross surveyed the club's enlarged property after 1913 and found room for 36 holes, Horace Rackham paid $100,000 to have both courses built.
Source: Wikipedia: Detroit Golf Club
A tree between the 7th and 8th holes was bent as a sapling by Native Americans to mark the old Indian trail between Detroit and Pontiac.
Source: Wikipedia: Detroit Golf Club
For the tour event the members' 8th and 9th play as Nos. 1 and 2, and the 3rd is played from the North Course's No. 1 tee to the South Course's No. 1 green.
The original clubhouse stood where the North Course's 12th green is today, and its pipes can still be seen behind the green.
Source: Wikipedia: Detroit Golf Club
Detroit Golf Club is one of fewer than twenty clubs in North America with two distinct 18-hole Donald Ross courses, both now being restored.
Source: Detroit Golf Club home page
During the tour event holes 14-16 (par 5, par 3, par 4) became "Area 313", named after Detroit's area code and ringed by stadium seating and hospitality as the event's fan hub.
Source: GOLF.com: The epicenter of the Rocket Mortgage Classic will be a three-hole stretch called Area 313
Donald Ross
Renovations over the years (dates not given)
Renovation (Front 9 Master Plan restoration)
Source: GCSAA Tournament Fact Sheet: Rocket Classic 2025 · Detroit Golf Club home page
The PGA Tour and DP World Tour weeks at this course since 2017.
| Year | Event | Winner | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Rocket Classic 30 July – 2 August 2026 | Michael Thorbjornsen | PGA Tour |
| 2025 | Rocket Classic 26–29 June 2025 | Aldrich Potgieter | PGA Tour |
| 2024 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 27–30 June 2024 | Cameron Davis | PGA Tour |
| 2023 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 29 June – 2 July 2023 | Rickie Fowler | PGA Tour |
| 2022 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 28–31 July 2022 | Tony Finau | PGA Tour |
| 2021 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 1–4 July 2021 | Cameron Davis | PGA Tour |
| 2020 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 2–5 July 2020 | Bryson DeChambeau | PGA Tour |
| 2019 | Rocket Mortgage Classic 27–30 June 2019 | Nate Lashley | PGA Tour |
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's tour-course research (profiles, championship history, the tour's visits since 2017, stories, details and course changes, each with its sources). A value no source confirmed is left out; nothing is estimated. The light in the room is the sun's real position on the last day of a recorded visit.
The routing and ground are drawn from OpenStreetMap data, © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). The clubhouse is drawn by GNN from reference photographs; the photographs stay private.
Data: detroit-golf-club-north.json. Spot an error? See corrections.