PGA Tour Highlights: Rocket Classic 2026, Round One | Golf Channel
Watch the best shots and moments from the first round of the 2026 Rocket Classic.
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From Detroit, Michigan, it's live first round coverage of the Rocket Classic.
Pretty aggressive line right here.
Good.
Come on, Cam.
Pretty good.
Good shot, Cam.
Is it the number?
Yeah.
What a shot.
Over to 15, Ben Coles, he has been on a heater for the past five weeks.
Has a chance for birdie here at the par three.
Ben Coles won on the Korn Ferry Tour.
Makes a birdie here.
Qualified for the US Open the next day.
Front portion of the ninth green.
Knapp.
Yeah, this putt's gonna go right.
He has to come over that shoulder on the left-hand side of the green as it works its way downhill.
Oh, pours it in.
Center cut there for Knapp.
Having a great year with that club.
Griffin to pay off the approach.
Yeah, nice bounce back after the bogey at seven when he birdied eight.
See if he can do it here.
Oh.
Fill it up.
To the 11th we go.
Hideki Matsuyama.
We saw Ryo Hisatsune earlier, now Hideki.
Out of the bunker.
Such a good short game.
Clear.
Oh.
Oh, my goodness.
How does that not go in?
Robbed.
How about this on the 14th?
Two big ones to get here in two.
William Jennings for eagle.
Oh.
You bet.
Austin Eckroat at three under.
He's about to cross to the front nine, but first this for par to that back left hole location.
Oh, yeah.
What a par.
My goodness.
Yeah, starts it left, heading back toward that left portion of the green.
Yeah, it's well done right there.
Four consecutive cuts made.
Thorbjorn Olesen at 13 from the bunker.
Oh, beautiful shots.
Yeah.
Getting better.
Wow.
12th, Jong.
And from 134, that hole location, all the way back.
Will he get aggressive with it?
Oh, good shot there.
Great control of the spin.
And now Taylor Pendrith at the 11th, playing with Michael Brennan.
This is a long putt for birdie with the flagstick in.
Oh.
Yes.
Pars for J.J. Spaun.
Let's go back to the 12th.
Different story for Brennan.
He's got- Se- He's got the power to get through that thick rough.
Wow.
Seven birdies in a row, and that to make it eight straight.
From just outside seven feet, Brennan, to extend the birdie streak to eight.
That can't miss.
This is fun.
This is a lot of fun to watch.
Up to 15, a short par three, playing 148 yards today.
Ryo Hisatsune trying to get to five under.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the whole golf course aesthetically is just beautiful.
Yeah, it's I just love the way it looks.
It- it's, you know, it gives you some definition and it, it definitely changes the hole.
Spaun has been around the hole on so many of these putts.
But that one finds the bottom of the cup.
Oh, this is a low bullet on a really good line.
Ooh.
Just needs to dig in, and it does.
Excellent shot.
Back at the 14th.
This will be the third for Spieth.
He's forced to lay up there, just in the fescue, and that is just beautiful.
Up one, Griffin.
Well, how about it?
Filling it for birdie.
Cantlay at five under.
Just trying to piece it in between the bunkers down the right and left, and there's helping wind here.
Boy, that ball's chasing out nicely.
Here's Billy Horschel.
Let's see if he can make one and get the compliments flowing.
Okay, now someone's gotta say good putt to Billy.
Cantlay now on the tee.
Six under, tied for the best round on the course.
And that bunker you referenced, it's 278 to that bunker.
Definitely can get there, even though it's playing back in the breeze.
But that's not gonna matter here today.
Yeah, that is really good.
Can't even see the ball for Matsuyama from the rough, 18.
Powers it onto the green.
Nice job just to find the surface from that lie.
Trying to crawl up on top.
Jordan Spieth in the bunker at 17 for his third.
Got plenty of green to work with for Jordan here.
Very predictable, Justin.
So good.
Jake Knapp, a putt for birdie at 17.
You gotta move a little right to left here for Knapp.
Oh.
Oh, what a big birdie at 17.
Looks challenging for Cantlay.
Yeah, awkward lie here.
Ball well below his feet.
He's gotta keep his weight always on the left side here.
He's gonna break at the club up quickly here.
That's why he's a paid professional.
Yeah, that was really well done
