DETROIT >> The champs are back.

Four of the five past winners of the PGA Tour’s Rocket Classic at Detroit Golf Club have committed to playing in this year’s tournament, including two-time winner and defending champion Cam Davis, 2023 winner and tournament ambassador Rickie Fowler, 2022 champ Tony Finau and inaugural winner Nate Lashley.

The only past champion who won’t be in this year’s field is 2020 winner Bryson DeChambeau, who isn’t eligible.

The four past champions are the first commitments for the 2025 Rocket Classic.

“We’re excited to welcome back four outstanding champions ? Cameron, Rickie, Tony and Nate ? to the Rocket Classic this summer,” Bill Emerson, president of Rocket Companies and the Rocket Giving Fund, said in a statement Thursday announcing the commitments. “Each of these players has left their mark on this tournament, and it’s a privilege to see them return to Detroit. From the start, Dan Gilbert’s vision was to bring a PGA Tour event here not just to showcase great golf, but to drive meaningful impact in our community.

“That mission continues, and these champions are part of the story we’re proud to keep building.”

Davis, 30, won the 2024 Rocket Classic (then called the Rocket Mortgage Classic) when he won by a stroke over Akshay Bhatia, Min Woo Lee, Aaron Rai and Davis Thompson. Davis also won the tournament in 2021, in a playoff; Davis’ only two PGA Tour victories have been in Detroit.

In 2023, Fowler, 36, broke a four-plus-year winless drought when he birdied the 18th hole in regulation and then the 18th again in the playoff to win the tournament for which he’s been an unofficial host, as a Rocket pitchman. Fowler has played in all six Rockets.

In 2022, Finau, 35, set a scoring record (26 under par) in winning the Rocket.

And in 2019, Lashley, 42, won the inaugural Rocket Classic, for his first and only PGA Tour victory.

The 2025 field will feature 156 golfers, with commitments rolling in right up until tournament time, though how big the names are remains to be seen. The Rocket’s place on the schedule isn’t perfect, two weeks after the U.S. Open (and a week after another big-money signature event, the Travelers Championship) and three weeks before the British Open.

The 2025 Rocket Classic is scheduled for June 26-29, and tickets are on sale at RocketClassic.com, starting at $65 per day for grounds tickets, and $120 per day for hospitality tickets. Children 15 and younger get in free when accompanied by a ticketed adult; active military and veterans and first responders get free tickets, while supplies last.

The Rocket Classic, which has a contract through 2027, has raised nearly $10 million for local charities since its inception, much of that toward the “Changing the Course” initiative to end Detroit’s digital divide.