Kristin Tattar has not finished outside the top-3 in a Major or Elite Series event in her career. Photo: Justin Anderson / PDGA Media
Coming into a Pro Worlds as the favorite without ever having won one; the pressure could be crushing.
Coming in as the heavy favorite as Kristin Tattar did this week – she was given a greater than 50% chance of taking down the event according to the new win probability stat from UDisc – and the pressure mounts even further.
A marathon turned into a sprint on Tuesday as 286 of the top players in the world hit the courses in Emporia, Kansas to kick off the 40th edition of the PDGA World Championships and the action, as it's been throughout the 2022 season, was fast and furious.
Moments have defined the history of the Pro Worlds.
We'll all remember the one from 2021, a clip that we've see time and time again and will likely see replayed for the foreseeable future, but that one is just the latest in a 40-year history of Pro Worlds.
The quest for No. 6 for Paige Pierce and Paul McBeth continues. Catrina Allen and James Conrad — who both had throws that defined the 2021 Worlds — are the defending champions.
The PDGA, along with the Host Team in Emporia and Disc Golf Network, have created a tee time plan that will see both the MPO and FPO divisions split into two equal pools for the upcoming 2022 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships. With the FPO field growing larger every year, this model is expected to be utilized in future iterations of Pro Worlds to accommodate the significant number of players, spectators, and media initiatives involved with the sport’s paramount event.
Eveliina Salonen found herself in her first tight spot of the day mere seconds after taking the tee as the final round leader of the first PDGA Major outside North America in three years.
Eagle McMahon is in position to win his first European Open. Photo: Matthew Rothstein / PDGA Media
Paige Charges Back Through Rain
Heavy storm clouds loomed over Nokia on Moving Day morning, yet all was quiet on the first tee at Nokia DiscGolfPark as the FPO lead card launched their drives down the trachea of hole 1, straight into the belly of “The Beast.”
Paige Pierce set the tone right off the bat with a fierce Circle 2 putt that echoed across all corners of the park. Unfazed by Paige´s power move, Eveliina also smashed the chains with malicious intent from her own slightly compromised lie 8 meters down the hill by the edge of the shrubbery.
Paul McBeth is looking for his sixth European Open title as the PDGA Major returns to Finland. Photo: Kevin Huver
It’s time.
After three long years in which the world has battled a pandemic and disc golf has experienced massive growth, a PDGA Major finally returns to the international stage for the 2022 European Open presented by Discmania.
The long-awaited return to Finland and the beloved and revered Beast course at Nokia DiscGolfPark in Nokia begins Thursday and runs through Sunday, when two PDGA Major champions will be crowned.
It’s the 10th running of the European Open, which began as a PDGA Major in 2006.
Ohn Scoggins is the reigning FP40 PDGA World Champion. Photo: Kevin Huver / PDGA
Legends of the sport and the future meet this week in Illinois.
Masters Worlds has long been a reunion, a gathering of friends and competitors with relationships and rivalries that go back maybe decades. Juniors Worlds, in its own way, is becoming very similar.
“When I woke up this morning, I could not get the thought of me winning out of my head and I was trying so hard to calm my mind,” King said. “I just had a feeling when I woke up that I was going to take it down.”
The 2022 United States Women's Disc Golf Championship was full of numbers.
Hailey King took down her first PDGA Major title. Jennifer Allen won her second Major and 150th career win. In her 400th event, Barrett White won her 10th Major and sixth USWDGC crown. Pam Reineke and Sandy Gast, the 1992 Co-PDGA Rookies of the Year, won their combined 13th Majors. Two sisters — Therese Cuevas and Athena Cuevas — are now Major champions.
But the most impressive number is 318, the total number of women who competed and came together over the past week in Madison, Wisconsin for the largest women's disc golf tournament in history.
2022 United States Women's Disc Golf Championship 2022 PDGA Major #2 Chase Card Final Round - F9 - FPO FEATURE Vallarta-Ast DGC DeForest, Wisconsin Commentary Team Erika Stinchcomb & Madison Walker Players Sai Ananda Henna Blomroos Catrina Allen Valerie Mandujano
