The setup - mostly using the North - is rerouted for the Tour for a par-72 of 7,370 yards, and is the flattest course on Tour. YOUR NEXT TRIP: Ranking Michigan's top 10 golf resorts and destinations for your Up North vacationĭetroit Golf Club, opened in 1899, has two 18-hole courses, the North and South, both designed by the legendary Donald Ross. MUST-PLAY: This might be Michigan's most underrated golf course Ryder Cup captain Zach Johnson, Keegan Bradley and World Golf Hall of Famer Davis Love III. There are 11 major championship winners in the field, notably Adam Scott, Webb Simpson, Jason Day, Stewart Cink, 2023 U.S. 16 Finau, fresh off a win Sunday at the 3M Open in Minnesota, No. FedEx Cup champion Patrick Cantlay is the highest-ranked player in the field and the betting favorite at around 10-1. This might be the deepest field yet of the Rocket Mortgage Classic, with 11 of the top-50 ranked players in the world set to tee off. ![]() QUICK START: Tony Finau, other big names playing well early at Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit WATCH THIS: Mark Hubbard drops club in disgust, still makes hole-in-one in first round 2020 winner Bryson DeChambeau joined LIV Golf and is off the Tour. There are 156 players competing for the tournament's fourth annual title at the Detroit Golf Club, and two of the three previous winners are in the field: Nate Lashley (2019) and defending champion Cam Davis (2021) tee off with Tony Finau at 7:18 a.m. “Rahm is a good friend of mine, we practice quite a bit together so having Rahmbo as like a sparring partner for me has only made me better and I hope he can say the same.Welcome to the 2022 Rocket Mortgage Classic, the PGA Tour's stop in Detroit, Michigan. “Anytime you can battle with a guy like Jon Rahm who’s in the form that he was and come out on top, it makes me feel good,” Finau said. Not only did the two close friends battle a year ago as well, but they also played a practice round earlier this week with Bhatia. “It was a day where I didn’t do much wrong, but I didn’t do much right, either.” ![]() “I knew I needed a low one again today, somewhere 23, 24, 25 under was, maybe if I had a target in mind, that was it,” Rahm said. Rahm was in neutral for much of the early going and only could muster a charge late on the back nine with back-to-back birdies on 14 and 15 and one to finish on 18. On the 490-yard 10th, he took the water completely out of play by hitting two driving irons onto the green. “It’s tough, you’ve got to really hunker down and trust your swing, trust that you’ve been hitting good shots all week.”įinau’s lead was never less than three after that. “I think that 10th tee shot was maybe a few bad swings in a row,” Wu said. He was tied for second with Rahm on 18 but made a sloppy bogey to finish at 19 under. Wu bogeyed the 8th and then suffered disaster two holes later when he hit his tee ball into the pond and walked away with double. However, Finau made a birdie of his own at the drivable par-4 7th. Wu was the only player to mount a serious challenge all day, briefly tying Finau after an eagle-birdie run on 6 and 7 brought him to 21 under. ![]() News Did Tony Finau win the Netflix series? | ‘Full Swing’ Ep. He moves up to fourth in the FedEx Cup standings, after the aforementioned trio. Now Finau joins Rahm, Scottie Scheffler and Max Homa as multi-time winners on the PGA Tour this season. “To get this win was huge and hopefully propels me to do more great things as the season unfolds.” I was playing not very good golf and then I make a run on Sunday and after that, I played great golf throughout the rest of the season. “This was the first high finish that I had all season in my season last year. “This tournament propelled me I think into the season that I had last year,” Finau said. The top three on the leaderboard are identical to a year ago with Brandon Wu following his co-runner-up with a solo third this year. In a rematch of the 2022 Mexico Open, where Rahm picked up his first of seven wins in the last year, Tony Finau came out on top this time.įinau started Sunday with a two-shot lead over Rahm and Akshay Bhatia and ended it with a bogey-free 66 to finish at 24 under, good for a three-shot win at this year’s Mexico Open at Vindanta over Rahm. While Jon Rahm is still undeniably the hottest player in golf right now, the man who held him off Sunday might submit his name for consideration. Tony Finau won his sixth PGA Tour title Sunday in Mexico.
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