DETROIT >> The PGA Tour won’t officially announce its full 2026 schedule until later this summer.

But this much we do know: The Rocket Classic is moving back.

The 2026 Rocket will be played from July 30 through Aug. 2, marking the first time in the tournament’s history that play will spill into August. Tournament officials confirmed the dates Sunday morning.

The chief reason for the pushback would seem to be the $16.1-million restoration at Detroit Golf Club that gets under way in earnest in the next two days, with a deadline of being ready for the 2026 Rocket Classic. Construction crews will be redoing all greens and bunkers throughout DGC’s Rocket course, and taking out the big pond on the par-5 14th. Detroit Golf Club also will be lengthened by about 300 yards, so it can play nearly 7,700 yards moving forward.

While most of the restoration work is scheduled to be done by the end of this fall, pushing the Rocket back in 2026 will allow the course, specifically the greens, to mature. The greens certainly will play faster and smoother if they’re allowed more time, and the PGA Tour and its players sure do like their fast greens.

A pushback of the Rocket will move it to after the British Open. That could benefit the strength of the tournament’s player field. The tournament will be late in the regular season, with players positioning to make the playoffs. Only the top 70 players in FedEx Cup points make the first playoff event, and if there are big-name players who have had a rough season and thus find themselves outside or on that bubble, Detroit could be a late add to their schedule.

The playoff push was a big reason why Justin Thomas added Detroit to his schedule in 2023 for the first time.

On the flip side, some stars who might otherwise consider Detroit could sit out the Rocket to rest for the playoffs.

The 2026 British Open is scheduled for July 16-19. This year, the 3M Open is Minnesota is played after that, and the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina is the final event before the playoffs. It wasn’t immediately clear Sunday if either or one of those tournaments would move to earlier in the season, or if the PGA Tour would simply push the playoffs back by a week to accommodate the Rocket.

The Rocket has traditionally been played at the end of June or early July. Once, it was played in late July.

Rocket tournament officials haven’t been thrilled with the tournament’s place on the PGA Tour calendar in recent years.

This year’s Rocket was played two weeks after the U.S. Open and the week after the Travelers Championship, another big-money signature event, and three weeks before the British Open.

It made for tough sledding in player recruitment, though this year’s Rocket, statistically, had one of its better fields post-COVID, with world No. 5, Collin Morikawa, who is in contention heading into Sunday’s final round, as well as world No. 7 Keegan Bradley and No. 12 Hideki Matsuyama, No. 17 Ben Griffin and No. 20 Patrick Cantlay.

The Rocket Classic is under contract through 2026, with an option for 2027 held by Rocket Companies. Negotiations on a possible extension for Detroit expected to pick up in the coming month. PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan and incoming PGA Tour CEO Brian Rolapp were in Detroit last week.