2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic field set with only 10 top 50 players

The field for the 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic is almost full, with 151 spots available on Friday evening. There’s a little bit of everything for Detroit golf fans: 10 of the top 50 in the World Golf Rankings, seven major winners, three previous Rocket Mortgage Classic winners and a few precocious youngsters.

The tournament, which returns to Detroit Golf Club for the sixth time, will be held June 25-30, with the first round beginning Thursday. Among the top-ranked golfers coming to town are Cameron Young (No. 23 in the world), Tom Kim (No. 26), Chris Kirk (No. 30) and of course Rickie Fowler, No. 49 and the defensive midfielder. Rocket Mortgage Classic champions after last year’s epic three-way playoff win. (Young on Saturday at the Travelers Championship became the 12th player all-time to score 59 or better on the PGA Tour.)

Other previous winners returning to Detroit include Cam Davis, who won the trophy in a 2021 playoff, and Nate Lashley, who won it as a third alternate in 2019 and led the wire-to-wire.

The Rocket Mortgage Classic will also feature several major winners: Stewart Cink (2009 British Open), Jason Dufner (2013 PGA Championship), Zach Johnson (2007 Masters, 2015 British Open), Francesco Molinari (2018 British Open), Webb Simpson (2012) US Open), Jimmy Walker (2016 PGA Championship) and Gary Woodland (2019 US Open).

On the other end of the experience spectrum, Detroit Golf Club welcomes 15-year-old Miles Russell with a sponsor exemption for his PGA Tour debut. The freshman from Jacksonville, Florida finished 20th at the LECOM Suncoast Classic on the Korn Ferry Tour in April.

Also making his PGA Tour debut will be Neal Shipley, who already finished as a low amateur at this year’s Masters and US Open. The runner-up of the 2023 US Amateur turned professional this week.

The final five spots will be up for grabs on Sunday and Monday, with one spot available through the John Shippen National Golf Invitational, a 36-hole tournament at Detroit Golf Club on Saturday and Sunday, and the final four settled through the qualifiers of Monday.

The 2024 Rocket Mortgage Classic field
(from Friday evening)

Albertson, Anders

Alexander, Tyson

Baddeley, Aaron

Barjon, Paul

Barnes, Erik

Berger, Daniel

Bhatia, Akshay

Blair, Zach

Bramlett, Joseph

Brehm, Ryan

Bridgeman, Jacob

Bryan, Wesley

Buckley, Hayden

Campillo, Jorge

Campos, Rafael

Cauley, Bud

Champion, Cameron

Cink, Stewart

Clanton, Luke +

Kool, Erik

Cody, Parker

Cody, Pierceson

Crowe, Trace

Dahmen, Joel

Davis, Kam

Dougherty, Kevin

Dufner, Jason +

Dumont de Chassart, Adriaan

Duncan, Tyler

Dunlap, Nick

Echavarria, Nico

Endycott, Harrison

Visbrand, Patrick

Fowler, Ricky

Fox, Ryan

Furr, Wilson

Garnett, Brice

Ghim, Doug

Gotterup, Chris

Greyserman, Max

Griffin, Ben

Griffioen, Lanto

Gutschewski, Scott

Hadley, Chesson

Hale, Jr., Blaine

Hal, Harry

Hardy, Nick

Higgo, Garrick

Highsmith, Joe

Hisatsune, Ryō

Hodges, Lee

Hooray, Rico

Hofman, Charley

Hojgaard, Nicolai

Hossler, Beau

Hubbard, Mark

Jaeger, Stephen

James, Ben+

Johnson, Zach

Kim, Chan

Kim, Michael

Kim, SH

Kim, Tom

Kirk, Chris

Kisner, Kevin

Kizzire, Patton

Nice, Jake

Knowles, Phillip

Kohles, Ben

Koivun, Jackson +

Kuchar, Matt

Laird, Martin

Lashley, Nate

Lee, K.H

Lee, Min Woo

Lindheim, Nicholas

Lipsky, David

List, Luc

Lower, Justin

MacIntyre, Robert

Malnati, Peter

Martin, Kyle #

McCormick, Ryan

McNealy, Maverick

Meissner, Mac

Merritt, Troy

Mitchell, Keith

Molinari, Francesco

Montgomery, Taylor

Moore, Ryan

Moor, Taylor

NeSmith, Matt

Noren, Alex

Norlander, Henrik

Norman, Vincent

Novak, Andreas

Olesen, Thorbjorn

Pan, C.T

Pendrith, Taylor

Pereda, Raul

Phillips, Chandler

Rai, Aaron

Ramey, Chad

Reavie, Chez

Riley, Davis

Rodgers, Patrick

Russel, Miles +

Ryder, Sam

Schenk, Adam

Schmid, Matti

Shelton, Robby

Shipley, Neal+

Sigg, Greyson

Silverman, Ben

Simpson, Webb

Skinns, David

Sloan, Roger

Smalley, Alex

Snedeker, Brandt

Spaun, JJ

Springer, Hayden

Stevens, Sam

Streelman, Kevin

Yeah, Justin

Svenson, Adam

Tarren, Callum

Taylor, Ben

Theater, Jos

Thompson, Davis

Thorbjornsen, Michael

Todd, Brendon

Toasti, Alejandro

Trainer, Martijn

Tway, Kevin

Valimaki, Sami

van Rooyen, Erik

Vegas, Johnattan

Villegas, Camilo

Walker, Jimmy +

Wallace, Matt

Whale, Vince

Whitney, Tom

Wilkinson, Tim

Forest, Gary

Wu, Brandon

Wu, Dylan

Young, Cameron

Young, Carson

Yu, Kevin

Yuan, Carl

Zalatoris, Wil

+ stands for sponsor exemption

# stands for section champion