Rocket Classic Betting Odds, Picks, Outright Predictions: Best Bets, Props, OAD
Beginning Thursday, the PGA Tour returns to the Motor City after a high-octane stretch of majors and signature events this summer. The 2025 Rocket Classic odds board offers a different type of test from what we’ve seen in recent weeks, as the forgiving landing areas off the tee will lend themselves to more birdie-or-better opportunities.
A birdie fest awaits in one of the most defenseless courses on the tour. All signs point towards a surprise, longshot winner. That is, at least, what I’ve planned my Rocket Mortgage Classic bets around.
After winning with Keegan Bradley last week, let’s break down my Rocket Classic bets. Click the odds anywhere in this article to place Rocket Classic wagers. For a full breakdown of the tournament and course, visit my Rocket Classic preview.
Rocket Classic Betting Odds
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I expect the Rocket Classic to continue as one of the purest birdie fests on the PGA Tour. It’s sure to require a score beyond 20-under-par to win. There is no resistance from tee-to-green on this course, guarded by the trees to protect from the wind and featuring negligible rough around the fairways.
Any type of player can win here, but those with above-average and greater putting skills stand the best chance to separate.
From a unit allocation standpoint, it’s back to business as usual for my weekly stake at the 2025 Rocket Classic.
Rocket Classic Odds & Bets: Outrights (3.70 Units)
Ben Griffin
My Bet: +2200
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Looking to go back-to-back weeks with featured spotlight winners, there is much to like about Griffin this week. Understandably, his odds have shrunk to the shortest pre-tournament figure we’ve seen from Griffin this season, as he continues to sustain a dominant stretch of form.
Griffin has not looked back since getting over the hump for his first career PGA Tour win at the Zurich Classic. He’s posted top-15 finishes in each of his last five starts, including his second win of the season at the Charles Schwab Challenge. Before this sudden emergence, Griffin’s best performances had consistently come in easy, birdie-fest setups, so all signs point towards this positive momentum continuing in Detroit.
Cameron Young
My Bet: +3000
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I’ve bet on Young many times in his early, winless career, but this is one of the first instances where I find myself buying high on his stock. A cooperative putter his been the missing link in Young’s game up until this season, and some mechanical changes have helped pay serious dividends. He turned that weakness into his greatest strength this season, ranking No. 7 in the field in SG: Putting.
With top-6 finishes in each of his first two Rocket Classic appearances and top-5 finishes in two of his last three starts, Young’s combination of current form and course history is arguably the best in this field.
Rickie Fowler
My Bet: +5000
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If Bradley’s win at the Travelers was a sign of the summer of 2023 repeating itself, then Fowler is next in line to continue that trend. Fowler broke his winless drought at the 2023 Rocket Classic, paving the way for a Ryder Cup team selection later that Fall. He has much more work to do to put himself on Captain Bradley’s radar this time around, but has quietly managed a strong 2025 season with three top-16 finishes over his last six starts.
Fowler ranks No. 13 overall in my model this week and should feel the love from a supportive Detroit crowd that willed him on to victory two years ago. He’s finished in the top 30 in four of his last five appearances at this event.
Byeong Hun An
My Bet: +7000
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Given the lack of penal hazards or shorter rough surrounding these fairways, I find myself siding more in favor of the bombers over the accurate plodders this week from an outright perspective. That leads me to one of the longest hitters in this field in Hun An, who’s demonstrated that fit already at the Detroit Golf Club with a career-best T13 finish here in his 2019 debut.
An has really rounded into form as of late, with top-15 finishes in two of his last three starts. If that form continues into this week, he profiles well to capitalize on the scoring opportunities at the Detroit Golf Club.
Rico Hoey
My Bet: +9000
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Hoey proved at the 2024 Rocket Classic that form is not always a prerequisite for success on a good course fit. He ended a stretch of five consecutive missed cuts en route to a T6 finish at this event last year. Over his early career, Hoey has proven that his game is at its best on long, open, and easy course setups, with five top-10 finishes in opposite-field or fall swing events over the last two years.
Just four starts removed from a T7 showing at the Myrtle Beach Classic, Hoey stands out as one of the top drivers in this field, with high approach upside.
Lee Hodges
My Bet: +11000
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The 3M Open has proven to be the top correlating course in predicting success at the Rocket Classic. Both courses, which joined the PGA Tour in 2019, are set up to produce ample birdies and reward consistency with ball-striking.
For that reason, I’m drawn to the 2023 3M Open champion, who we know has the arsenal to score well on a layout like this. Hodges was sidelined for about two months in early Spring, but looks to have found his stride once again, coming off a T9 showing in his latest start at the RBC Canadian Open. If his putter continues to stay hot, he has the ball-striking chops to contend in Detroit this week.
Ricky Castillo
My Bet: +15000
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The 24-year-old rookie stands out to me as one of the PGA Tour’s most promising up-and-coming rookies. He has already posted four top-20 finishes in his first season on tour, with his best result (T5) coming four starts ago at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson. It’s still early in his career, but initial signs point to Castillo profiling as a consistent total driver who can routinely gain with both his distance and accuracy off the tee, and spike with his iron play.
Castillo ranked top-10 in SG: APP for the week at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson, so if he can do the same at the Detroit Golf Club, he will be a factor this week.
Antoine Rozner
My Bet: +15000
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The 32-year-old Frenchman has a polished resume on the DP World Tour, which includes three wins over his last four seasons overseas. That success is now just beginning to translate to the PGA Tour as well. In his first full season stateside, Rozner has made it through the cut in 12 consecutive starts. That includes top-35 finishes in each of his last five starts, and a career-best T13 at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
Rozner has the rare combination of elite driving distance and approach play (top-15 in each category), a highly encouraging profile to score on a course set up like the Detroit Golf Club.
Rocket Classic Odds & Bets: First-Round Leader (0.70 Units)
Cameron Young
My Bet: +5000
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This seems like a good time to continue striking while the iron is hot with Young. It remains to be seen whether he has what it takes to close out a PGA Tour win, but he’s proven time and time again that he is capable of jumping out to a hot start on venues that offer an advantage to the longest hitters.
Wyndham Clark
My Bet: +6000
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Last week, we saw some flashes of the vintage Clark from a couple of years ago at the Travelers Championship. If his T17 finish is a sign of better results to come, the Detroit Golf Club is an ideal course for Clark to stockpile birdies.
Chris Gotterup
My Bet: +7000
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Gotterup was one of the last players kept off my outright card, but I still think highly of his chances to contend on this course. He has been elite off the tee this season and has also demonstrated consistency with his irons over the last month.
Rico Hoey
My Bet: +9000
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Distance leads to more birdie opportunities at the Detroit Golf Club, so I’m loading up my FRL card on players who I know can reach the par-5s in two and stockpile birdie-or-better opportunities. Hoey is known for getting hot in birdie fests, and returns to the Detroit Golf Club in improved form since finishing T6 here last year.
Antoine Rozner
My Bet: +11000
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A bomber with trending iron play and an ability to spike on the greens, Rozner is a sneaky great fit to play well at the Detroit Golf Club despite the long odds. He is a volatile player, but fully capable of going low on Thursday.
Rocket Classic Odds & Bets: Props (2.50 Units)
Full Tournament Matchup: Hideki Matsuyama Over Harry Hall
My Bet: -115
If you were to bet on Matsuyama to outduel Hall at near coin-flip odds every week of their careers, you’d likely be able to retire by now. Matsuyama may not be in the best stretch of his career at the moment, but his game is far from lost with six top-40 finishes over his last seven starts. He’s also taken a liking to the Detroit Golf Club, as he’s set to make his fifth career appearance with two prior top-20s.
On the other hand, Hall has failed to finish inside the top-30 at the Rocket Classic, and is not nearly the pedigree of a player as Matsuyama. Hall is in the midst of a great stretch that includes five consecutive top-25 finishes. However, this stretch has been entirely carried by his short game. I’ll side with the better long-term player with better ball-striking form at the moment in Matsuyama here.
Top-20 Finish: Rickie Fowler
My Bet: +220
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Fowler continues to gain in all four strokes gained categories each week over the last several months, which is the type of high-floor form I look for when betting on placement odds. He has two top-20 finishes in his career at the Rocket Classic, including his 2023 win here, so I don’t see any reason for his positive momentum to stop now.
Top-20 Finish: Antoine Rozner
My Bet: +450
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As a three-time DP World Tour winner, I trust that Rozner’s game has a ceiling higher than those priced around him in this range. He’s played good, not great, golf in the midst of this made-cut streak of 12 in a row, but the Detroit Golf Club is one of the better course fits he’ll have seen thus far in his first full season on the PGA Tour.
One & Done
My Pick: Ben Griffin
Things are heating up, with the recent stretch of Bradley at the Travelers, Hovland at the U.S. Open, and Scheffler at the Memorial catapulting us into serious contention. I have not had a reason to roll out Griffin until now, and this seems like the perfect time to strike. We haven’t seen his outright odds priced this short all season, and I no longer have the three players priced ahead of him (Morikawa, Cantlay, Bradley) available to use.
That may make Griffin a popular selection this week, but rising this far up the leaderboard, there’s no reason to be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. If not Griffin, I would also consider playing Cantlay, Young, or Woo Lee in OAD.
Rocket Classic Odds & Best Bets: My Full Betting Card
That’ll do it for this week’s PGA Tour golf bets. Best of luck this week with your own bets on Rocket Classic odds, and see you on Sunday for my John Deere Classic betting preview.
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