Rickie Fowler 12/1 © Franck Biton
It’s all change for the PGA Tour this week with a new tournament and a new golf course being added to the tour schedule. This will be the first time that the Donald Ross designed Detroit Golf Club has hosted a professional tournament. The new event is the Rocket Mortgage Classic the same sponsors of the Quicken Loans National who are a Detroit based company and were looking to bring a tournament to the city.
Located on the North side of Detroit, near Palmer Park and the University of Detroit Mercy, the course shares a border with 7 Mile on the North and started life as a 6-hole course designed by Bert Way then grow to a 9-hole and in 1913 additional property was purchased.
