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2023 PDGA Elite Series

2023 PDGA Elite Series

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Ricky Wysocki and Missy Gannon battled until the end of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

This is it, the final round of the 2023 Elite season. After a season of chase card comebacks, logjam leaderboards, first-time PDGA Major winners and a grand slam season, the top tour points leaders fought through the semifinals to make it to the last round of the finals of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol.

As we’ve seen all year, both the FPO and MPO competitions came down to the hole 18 to crown the 2023 DGPT Champions.

Ricky Wysocki lines up a shot on Saturday at Nevin Park in North Carolina. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

Nevin Park was broken.

Ricky Wysocki torched the woods in Charlotte, North Carolina on Saturday to open the sprint-to-the-finish finals of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol.

Wysocki set the course record with a 10-under round after the cut was made and the scores were reset heading into the weekend at the final Elite Series event of the year.

Stacie Rawnsley lines up a shot on Friday at the 2023 DGPT Championship presented by Barbasol. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

Twenty players are left standing in the 2023 Elite season.

A wild and down-to-the-wire day wrapped up the semifinal rounds of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol on Friday.

Now, just 36 holes remain before champions are crowned to wrap up the a wild and down-to-the-wire year.

Calvin Heimburg got off to a hot start on Thursday in Charlotte, North Carolina. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

Calvin Heimburg entered the new format at the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol with a stroke advantage based on his performance this season.

He added a few more strokes of his own on Thursday at Nevin Park in Charlotte, North Carolina.

After 15 Elite Series, nine Silver Series, and four Majors, the Disc Golf Pro Tour has reached its final stop of the season with the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The DGPT Championship has been held at the end of the season each year since the DGPT’s inception in 2016, showcasing the players who performed the best in each given year.

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Matt Orum celebrates his win at the 2023 MVP Open. Photo: PDGA Media

Maple Hill delivered once again.

Staying on script for the wild 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour season, the final DGPT Playoff event of the year wrapped up with a wild finish on Sunday at the 2023 MVP Open at Maple Hill.

One win was decades in the making and the other set the stage for the on-deck PDGA Major.

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Orum lines up a shot on Sunday at Maple Hill. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT

Defending champ Simon Lizotte has a share of the lead heading into Sunday at Maple Hill. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

The wind was howling in Round 3 of the 2023 DGPT Playoff - MVP Open at Maple Hill.

Both fields played in high sustained wins and even higher gusts and the MPO field faced a wind delay as the lead card was about to tee off. At the end of the day, both the FPO and MPO divisions ended with a tie for first that coincidentally includes the winner in each field from the most recent DGPT playoff event.

Calvin Heimburg has the solo lead at the MVP Open heading into the weekend. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

Welcome to the weekend at Maple Hill.

There were shakeups at the top of both leaderboards after Round 2 of the 2023 DGPT Playoff – MVP Open on Friday, setting up yet another dramatic finish on the 2023 Elite Series.

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The skies were clear over Maple Hill as the FPO division played the opening round of the 2023 DGPT Playoff — MVP Open.

Even though the course played tough with all but three holes averaging over par and every player taking at least one bogey, the top four players managed to stay under par for the day in the final DGPT Playoff presented by Barbasol event.

Simon Lizotte is the defending MPO champion at Maple Hill. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT

With just a short break after the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships, the Disc Golf Pro Tour has landed in Leicester, Massachusetts for the 2023 MVP Open presented by OTB.

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Photos by Kevin Huver / DGPT

The 2023 DGPT — Discraft Great Lakes Open saw two dramatic finishes as Ohn Scoggins fought to maintain her lead while Simon Lizotte and Eagle McMahon battled for the win on the slopes of the Toboggan course.

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Calvin Heimburg took down the 2022 title in a playoff. Photo: Disc Golf Pro Tour

The Disc Golf Pro Tour has arrived in Milford, MI for the 2023 Discraft Great Lakes Open Presented by GRIP6.

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While day two saw weather a delay for the FPO division and a late finish for the MPO field, skies were clear for Championship Sunday at the 2023 LWS Open at Idlewild Presented by Dynamic Discs and The Nati. The FPO field finished with a triumphant return to the top for Valerie Mandujano and yet another win for Gannon Buhr in the MPO field.

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The Disc Golf Pro Tour once again returns to Burlington, Kentucky for the 2023 LWS Open at Idlewild Presented by Dynamic Discs and The Nati. As one of the last two Elite Series events before the 2023 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships presented by L.L.Bean at the end of the month, players will be looking to pick up some late-season momentum.

Unstoppable.

Cole Redalen and Missy Gannon would not be denied on Sunday to capture wins at the 2023 DGPT — Discraft Ledgestone Open presented by Merrell.

Taking on Northwood Black with a four-stroke lead on Championship Sunday, Gannon slammed the door after things got interesting early on the heavily-wood track for the wire-to-wire win to complete her title defense.

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Missy Gannon and Cole Redalen both head into Championship Sunday at the 2023 DGPT — Discraft Ledgestone Open with four-stroke leads.

But a slugfest and a shootout are real possibilities on Sunday in central Illinois.

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Cole Redalen was cool, calm, collected, and shredding on Friday at the 2023 DGPT — Discraft Ledgestone Open.

After starting one over par through the first four holes, Redalen took off in a major way, collecting birdies on 10 holes at the daunting Northwood Black. His 9-under round tied the course record and put him atop the leaderboard at the midway point of the second Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite+ stop of the year.

Redalan was dialed in off the tee after his only bogey of the day, hitting 86% of the fairways and scrambling for birdie in one miss. He leads the tournament in strokes gained tee-to-green by 1.5 strokes, according to UDisc, as well as Circle 1 and Circle 2 in regulation.

Missy Gannon started her title defense strong at the Ledgestone Open. Photo: Gage Hamilton / DGPT

Missy Gannon started her title defense at the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour — Discraft Ledgestone Open with a throw that no other FPO player has done in the history of Northwood Black. Meanwhile, a calm day at Lake Eureka opened the floodgates for birdies in MPO.

One day down, three to go at the second DGPT Elite+ event of the year.

Ricky Wysocki is looking for the four-peat at Ledgestone. Photo: DGPT

After the European swing, the Elite Series is back in the United States to kick off the second half of 2023 at the DGPT — Discraft Ledgestone Open Presented by Merrell in Peoria, IL.

The best of the best — and the strongest field in the history of the prestigious tournament — has landed in Nokia, Finland for the 2023 European Open presented by Discmania. Many of the top players from the United States traveled to Norway to join the Euro Tour for the PCS Open last week and will now have a chance at a PDGA Major title. The European Open was established in 2006 and has become the premier professional disc golf event in Europe.

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As if we needed more excitement, Kristin Tattar's three-shot lead over Missy Gannon vanished at the 10th hole to offer us an even more exciting final round!

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We arrive again at the demanding 12th hole, and two almost identical shots have a very different destiny: the World Champion has a small cut-roll at the end that brings her back to inbounds, while the American has a higher skip and stays OB, and this two-stroke swing seems to end the excitement.

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Silver Lätt told us on the course that Kristin Tattar felt confident on the green after taking up her broken-in putters, and an 88% in C1X putting proves that it is so! If we add to this a 76% success rate in fairway hits, we get the best card of the day, a 4-under that leads the provisional leadership after the second day of this PDGA Euro Tour - DGPT Elite — PCS Open presented by Innova.

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The PDGA EuroTour and Disc Golf Pro Tour makes its way out to Vestnes, Norway for the 2023 PCS Open presented by Innova. The PCS Open is the sixth stop of the Euro Tour and takes place just one week before the European Open, so many of the best MPO and FPO players that had been competing on tour in the US are making their way to Norway.

Both the FPO and MPO fields saw familiar faces holding down the lead during the final round of the 2023 DGPT — Preserve Championship Powered by Prodigy. Catrina Allen came out on top after battling back and forth with Kristin Tattar and Ricky Wysocki kept charging to maintain a comfortable cushion over the rest of the MPO field.

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Catrina Allen held off a final-round push from Kristin Tattar. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT

The hot rounds kept coming on day two of the 2023 DGPT — Preserve Championship powered by Prodigy with a battle for the top of the FPO leaderboard and one MPO player taking a solid lead over the field.

Battle for the Lead

After shooting the course record in the opening round, Catrina Allen started Moving Day with a four-stroke lead over the field. Allen had a bit of a rocky start, taking a stretch of pars after a bogey on Hole 2.

“I felt not the most comfortable to start the round, I felt a little nervy,” Allen said after the round, “It took me until I would say about Hole 6 to get in the mindset I was in all day yesterday.”

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