The eighth PDGA Euro Tour stop is also the first Disc Golf Pro Tour event held outside of the US. It is also the first live Disc Golf Network broadcast outside of the US. The partnership between the PDGA and DGPT continues to enable both organizations to drive the sport’s highest level of competition further.
Heidi Laine leads the Nokia Open by three strokes. Photo: Matej Verl / PDGA Euro Tour
To tame The Beast, players must battle every single hole.
Part one of the battle is in the books at the Nokia Open, the sixth PDGA Euro Tour stop of the season, and both leaders in MPO and FPO have earned that right.
For the first 18 holes at least.
Finland’s Rasmus Saukkoriipi tamed The Beast the best on Thursday, finishing with a 5-under opening round that checks in with an unofficial 1046 rating – 53 points above his rating – and a one-stroke lead over a 114-player field.
Facing a treacherous island hole to close out the competition, Oksana Zukauskiene completed a big comeback to take down the FP40 crown in Talsi.
Martin Jenny is the MP40 Champion at the 9Hill Open. Photo: Photo: Matěj Verl
In MP40, with competitors charging and the pressure of the 83-meter closing hole waiting, Martin Jenny stuck to his plan and walked away with the title.
Action shifted to the 9Hill track, which was already set to test the Masters-only field of the fifth PDGA Euro Tour stop of the year before high winds added that much more difficulty to the more and OB-laden track.
Amanda Lennartsson carded a birdie three on the 54th hole of the weekend to grab a one stroke win to cap a wild day at Kalhyttans DiscGolfBana in Filipstad, Sweden.
It was a leaderboard shakeup in the FPO division as Sofie Bjölycke turned in the first round under par this weekend at the Kalhyttans DiscGolfBana. She jumped three spots and built a two-stroke lead heading into Championship Sunday with a 950-rated, two under par round that included six birdies, including the first of the weekend on the 114-meter, par three hole 14.
Pekka Kyvönen fired off six-straight birdies to finish and grab a share of the lead with Mathis Karlsen to open the Heatland Open sponsored by Kastaplast.
Natalie Höllokoi lines up her shot during the first round of Scottish Masters. Photo: Matěj Verl / PDGA
Euro Tour
The second stop on the PDGA Euro Tour kicked off today in Dunbar, Scotland, UK with the Scottish Masters. The Scottish Masters is the first ever separate masters-only Euro Tour event.
It is the first of seven stops in 2022 on the PDGA Euro Tour.
The conditions were tough to start the tournament, but the action heated up quickly throughout the weekend to set up a dramatic finish in the 35-player MPO field. In FPO, the battle was just as tight.
The schedule for the 2022 PDGA A-Tiers is now available, along with the 2022 PDGA Tour Standards that will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2022.
PDGA state and provincial coordinators may now start accepting requests for approval of dates for 2022 B-Tier and C-Tier events.
The 2022 PDGA Event Sanctioning Form is now enabled, so event directors for pre-approved 2022 A-Tiers and State/Provincial Coordinator-approved 2022 B & C-Tiers may now submit their sanctioning.
