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Rocket Classic

2025-06-26 · Detroit Golf Club

Winner
Aldrich Potgieter
Winning score
-22
Field
149
Field strength
+0.003 SG

The 2025 Rocket Classic was played at Detroit Golf Club, starting 26 June 2025. Aldrich Potgieter won at 22 under par (266). The winning card was 62, 70, 65 and 69, and the win paid $1,728,000. Chris Kirk and Max Greyserman tied for second. 149 players started the event. The field averaged +0.003 strokes gained per round against the tour baseline, with strokes-gained data covering 87% of the players. The full leaderboard below lists every player's finish position, round scores and total to par. Every figure on this page comes from the PGA Tour's published final leaderboard for the event — nothing here is estimated or modelled.

Final leaderboard

Top 20 of 149. Search finds any player in the field, including those who missed the cut.

Model score

Backtest · reconstructed

Our course-fit model re-run as it would have seen this week — using only data that existed before the first tee shot — then compared with how the 84 players actually finished. It was not published in advance, so this measures the model, not a call we made.

Cgrade
Rank correlation
+0.268
Top-20 hit rate
45%
Top-10 avg model rank
35.9

Grade is this event’s percentile (44th) against every other event we have scored — not an absolute pass mark. Rank correlation runs −1 to +1, where 0 is a coin flip and a full-field golf model landing near +0.35 is a genuine read.

Who the model liked

Its top 10, and where they finished.

PlayerModelFinish
Collin Morikawa1st8th
Patrick Cantlay2nd32nd
Hideki Matsuyama3rd13th
Akshay Bhatia4th26th
Ben Griffin5th13th
Si Woo Kim6th84th
Kurt Kitayama7th51st
Keegan Bradley8th41st
Davis Thompson9th34th
Max Greyserman10th2nd

Where it was most wrong

Largest gaps between rank and result, either direction.

PlayerModelFinish
Si Woo Kim6th84th(+78)
Jackson Suber77th6th(71)
Thriston Lawrence76th8th(68)
Aldrich Potgieter67th1st(66)
Harry Higgs83rd24th(59)
Erik van Rooyen20th78th(+58)
Matthew Riedel82nd26th(56)
Michael Thorbjornsen58th4th(54)
Jake Knapp53rd4th(49)
Zach Johnson35th82nd(+47)

One known caveat. Player stats, form and course history are all restricted to what existed before this event. The course archetype is not — it is derived from the venue’s full history, including this edition. That flatters the model slightly and equally at every venue. How the model works.

The venue

This event was played at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The venue page carries its scorecard, hosting history and every other tour event played there.

Common questions

Who won the Rocket Classic in 2025?

Aldrich Potgieter won the 2025 Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club, finishing 22 under par.

Where was the 2025 Rocket Classic played?

The 2025 Rocket Classic was played at Detroit Golf Club, starting 26 June 2025.

What was the winning score at the 2025 Rocket Classic?

The winning score was 22 under par (266 strokes), posted by Aldrich Potgieter.

How many players were in the Rocket Classic field?

149 players started the 2025 Rocket Classic. Every one of them appears on the leaderboard below.

Where these numbers come from

Finishes, round scores and to-par figures are the PGA Tour's own published final leaderboard for this event. Nothing is estimated or interpolated — where the tour published no value, this page shows a gap rather than a guess. Full sourcing notes are on the methodology page, and every stat name is defined in the glossary.