Michael Thorbjornsen wins first PGA Tour title at Rocket Classic

Thorbjornsen, who joined the Tour arsenic a rookie successful 2025, is wide considered 1 of the rising stars of US golf.

Michael Thorbjornsen had travel adjacent to winning ‌on the PGA Tour before, and helium learned from those experiences.

That showed connected Sunday erstwhile Thorbjornsen changeable a flawless ⁠7-under 63 to triumph ⁠the Rocket Classic and seizure his archetypal triumph connected the PGA Tour astatine Detroit Golf Club.

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“I’ve been successful that presumption a fewer times this twelvemonth and didn’t person the result I wanted,” Thorbjornsen said. “I ⁠knew however to grip it.”

Thorbjornsen finished astatine 18-under 262 for the tourney by draining a 25 1/2-foot birdie putt connected the last hole.

Thorbjornsen, 24, had the champion circular of the time for a two-stroke winning borderline connected Xander ⁠Schauffele (65 connected Sunday).

“The feeling’s unbelievable,” Thorbjornsen said. “I don’t truly cognize however to feel. I’m feeling a batch of things, I can’t truly enactment the words to it. Just extremely, highly grateful to beryllium sitting present close now.”

Third-round person Davis Riley (70) placed 3rd astatine 15 nether and Denmark’s Rasmus Hojgaard (68) was 4th astatine 14 under.

Thorbjornsen clinched a spot successful the FedEx Cup ‌playoffs, but helium had to hold for the last 2 threesomes to decorativeness earlier afloat celebrating the triumph successful his 65th commencement connected the tour. He had 2 top-10 finishes this twelvemonth anterior to this tournament.

“Just to beryllium successful the playoffs, archetypal time, is precise exciting,” helium said. “Always large to beryllium playing against the champion players successful the world.”

Thorbjornsen plays his changeable from the fairway connected the 18th spread during the last circular of the Rocket Classic play tourney [Aaron Doster/Imagn Images via Reuters]

On Sunday, Thorbjornsen played the last 9 holes, including chipping successful for birdie connected the 12th hole, astatine 5 under.

Schauffele remains without a triumph this year, but this marked his sixth top-10 decorativeness and his 3rd ⁠top-four finish.

“I wanted to travel present and get a fewer feels, I ⁠guess, successful play and benignant of conscionable freewheel it with benignant of a nothing-to-lose mentality,” Schauffele said.

Riley, who hasn’t won since 2024, started the circular with a birdie connected the archetypal spread earlier hitting a five-hole agelong with 3 bogeys.

“Just the commencement to contiguous got the ⁠best of maine and benignant of enactment maine down the 8-ball aboriginal unfortunately,” Riley said of the archetypal fewer holes. “Tried to claw my mode backmost the champion I could but ⁠unfortunately came up a small spot short. But a batch to physique ⁠on.”

Hojgaard had an eagle connected the par-5 4th spread and reached 4 nether for the circular done 10 holes earlier a bogey connected No. 11 and different connected No. 18.

Before the last groups were halfway done the past round, astatine slightest 7 golfers had ascended to astatine slightest ‌a stock of the apical spot.

“It was specified a battle,” Thorbjornsen said. “Everyone was successful the premix aft 9 holes.”

Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama (64) had the day’s second-best circular and finished tied for 5th spot astatine 13 under. He began connected ‌the ‌back 9 and was bogey-free.

Norway’s Kristoffer Ventura (68) and England’s Matt Wallace (67) joined Matsuyama astatine 13 under.

Because of weather-related concerns, the commencement of the circular was pushed back, and golfers were grouped successful threesomes with players starting from the archetypal and 10th tees.