Detroit — The Rocket Classic has officially been replaced.
The PGA Tour announced Tuesday the addition of a new tournament, with a new title sponsor, that will join the schedule for the 2027 season.
The tournament will be sponsored by insurance company Sompo, and take place in Napa, California, at Silverado Resort’s North Course. The 2027 tournament will take place from July 29-Aug. 1 in 2027.
The PGA Tour continues to say it remains interested in returning to Detroit or Metro Detroit in the future, after Rocket Companies pulled out as a title sponsor after the 2026 Rocket Classic, which is Thursday through Sunday at Detroit Golf Club. This year’s Rocket Classic is the eighth and last one.
But Tuesday’s announcement of a new tournament means the PGA Tour certainly won’t hold a tournament in Michigan in 2027. The earliest the PGA Tour is likely to return would be 2028, but it would need to secure a venue and title sponsor willing to pay upward of $30 million if hosting one of the new top-flight Championship Series tournaments.
The last time the PGA Tour left Michigan, after the final Buick Open in 2009, the state was without a PGA Tour stop until Dan Gilbert brought the Rocket to the city of Detroit in 2019.
The PGA Tour again remains fully sponsored for a full slate of tournaments as it prepares a shift in its scheduling model starting in 2028, when there will be two series of events — a Championship Series and a Challenger Series.
The Championship Series of 23 to 24 events will feature the best golfers on the PGA Tour, while the Challenger Series will feature the next tier, with opportunities for moving up as well as relegation based on performance.
Sompo will continue to sponsor the newest tournament as the PGA Tour moves into the Championship Series era starting in 2028, though the tournament then will move to a different and still-unannounced location after the 2027 event in Napa. Silverado hosted PGA Tour events from 1968 through 1980 and from 2014 through 2025. Scottie Scheffler won the Procore Championship there last season, and Max Homa won there in 2021 and 2022.
tpaul@detroitnews.com
@tonypaul1984
This article originally appeared on The Detroit News: PGA Tour announces Rocket Classic’s replacement on 2027 schedule
Reporting by Tony Paul, The Detroit News / The Detroit News
USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect
By Tony Paul, The Detroit News | USA TODAY Network
