# Rocket weighs future of Detroit’s PGA Tour stop: 'Decisions to make
There are three main entities that need to align to continue the tournament: The tournament’s title sponsor, Rocket Companies; the tournament’s host site, Detroit Golf Club; and the PGA Tour itself.
By all accounts, the club and the PGA Tour are eager to get a long-term agreement in the books to continue what is Michigan’s second-longest annual PGA Tour stop, after the old Buick Open, which was played from 1958 to 2009. But there’s a holdup on the part of Rocket Companies, whose founder, Dan Gilbert, long desired to bring the PGA Tour into the city limits of Detroit and continues to see the tournament as one of his lasting legacies.
Rocket officials believe the tournament has more than lived up to its promise of promoting a city on the rise, but are openly questioning if the PGA Tour is living up to its end of the bargain in this changing landscape of professional golf.
“Right now, we’re focused on '25. We’ve got a lot of work to do to get this golf course ready,” Bill Emerson, president of Rocket Companies, told The News earlier this month. "We’re contractually obligated through '26, and then we’ll make a decision probably sometime in the middle of next year on what comes next, right? When we think about it as a long-term commitment to the City of Detroit, you know, sometimes it’s just a matter of how it all shakes out, how the discussions with the PGA Tour go. Golf is in an uncertain place right now. What happens with the (PGA) Tour and the LIV (Golf) tour, how do they come together. A lot of moving parts.
“But we’re committed to this city, and if it’s at all possible for us to continue to move forward past '26, we’re going to find a way to do that.”