Bobby Jones celebrates making his final putt at the 2024 Tim Selinske U.S. Masters Championships, a putt he needed to win the MP65 division. He is the Global Masters Series MP65 Champion for 2024.

Featuring action every weekend all around the globe, the standings for the 2024 PDGA Global Master Series — the second year of the year-long, world-wide competition — have been finalized. Bracket winners were determined by the average of the players’ best eight round ratings throughout the year in any division that they were eligible to compete in.

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There were constant changes on the leaderboard and stellar rounds throughout the 32 age-based divisions offered by the PDGA.

In 2024, Ohn Scoggins broke the record for the highest event rating of any FPO player ever with a 1029 event rating at the Open in Austin. She won two elite series events in 2024. In between, she won the FP40 division at the 2024 Masters World Championships for the fourth year in a row. Scoggins had a 1032 top-eight round average in the FP40-49 division, beating out Jennifer Allen, who was in second place by an average of 30 rating points. 

🏆 2024 Global Masters Series Champions - Professional

• 🇺🇸 Ohn Scoggins (Pro Women 40-49)*
• 🇺🇸 Cale Leiviska (Pro Men 40-49)
• 🇺🇸 Juliana Korver (Pro Women 50-54)*
• 🇺🇸 Brian Schweberger (Pro Men 50-54)
• 🇺🇸 Barrett White (Pro Women 55-59)*
• 🇺🇸 Hank Kirwan (Pro Men 55-59)
• Su Mei Yang (Pro Women 60-64)
• 🇺🇸 Tim Keith (Pro Men 60-64)*
• 🇺🇸 Sandy Gast (Pro Women 65-69)*
• 🇺🇸 Bobby Jones (Pro Men 65-69)
• 🇯🇵 Shigeko Sekiguchi (Pro Women 70-74)
• 🇺🇸 Randy Beers (Pro Men 70-74)
• 🇺🇸 Janny Darling (Pro Women 75-79)
• 🇯🇵 Kazuo Shirai (Pro Men 75-79)**
• 🇺🇸 Sylvia Voakes (Pro Women 80+)*
• 🇺🇸 Barry Fischer (Pro Men 80+)*

🏆 2024 Global Masters Series Champions - Amateur

• 🇺🇸 Andrea Parsons (Am Women 40-49)
• 🇫🇮 Touko Hänninen (Am Men 40-49)
• 🇫🇮 Heidi Bergroth (Am Women 50-54)
• 🇺🇸 Erik Tribelhorn (Am Men 50-54)*
• 🇺🇸 Allie Lawler (Am Women 55-59)
• 🇺🇸 James Huestis (Am Men 55-59)*
• 🇺🇸 Janet Cranshaw (Am Women 60-64)
• 🇺🇸 Jay Sauls (Am Men 60-64)
• 🇺🇸 Donna Stanley (Am Women 65-69)*
• 🇺🇸 Danny McDonnell (Am Men 65-69)
• 🇺🇸 Patti Adams (Am Women 70-74)*
• 🇺🇸 Mark Hauser (Am Men 70-74)
• 🇺🇸 Lynne Gerber (Am Women 75-79)
• 🇺🇸 Gene Kouba (Am Men 75-79)
• 🇺🇸 Judith Gipson (Am Women 80+)*
• 🇺🇸 Robert Burton (Am Men 80+)*

* designates multiple-year winners in the same division
** designates multiple-year winners in different divisions

A Look Around the Leaderboard

Amateur Divisions

Danny McDonnell won the MA65-69 GMS division with a 967 top-eight average rating. Danny played in 68 tournaments across 4 divisions in 2024, with his last round going towards his GMS top-eight being a 958 rated round at the 2024 Chess.com Amateur Invitational on December 28th.

First time Major winner at the 2024 Tim Selinske U.S. Masters Championships, Janet Cranshaw, averaged a top-eight 900 rating to win the FA60-64 division.

Janet Cranshaw, accepting her trophy at the 2024 Tim Selinske U.S. Championships

Five of the 32 Global Masters Series winners were from outside of the U.S. The two from Finland were Touko Hänninen in MA40-44 with a 1013 top-eight average rating (beating out fellow Finnish player Petri Valkeinen by just an average of 2 rating points) and Heidi Bergroth in the FA50-54 division with a 921 top-eight average rating.

Andrea Parsons of Florida, U.S.A was the FA40-44 GMS champion with a 919 top-eight average rating, beating out JJ Geist of Indiana, U.S.A by an average of 3 rating points.

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Erik Tribelhorn won the MA50-54 division with a top-eight average rating of 996. Two of Erik's top-eight ratings were at the 2024 PDGA Masters Disc Golf World Championships (1020 and 1011). He placed third at the world championships.

James Huestis of Washington U.S.A. won the MA55-59 division with a 999 top-eight average rating. Allie Lawler of Massachusetts, U.S.A won the FA55-59 division with an 898 top-eight average. Her top two ratings of the year were during a Women's Global Event (920 and 905). 

Jay Sauls, winner of the MA60-64 division with a 987 top-eight average, played only 16 events in 2024, but one of those events was the 35th Earlewood Classic, where he took first place and got his highest rating of the year with a 12-under 1022 rated round.

Donna Stanley, the six-time masters Major champion from North Carolina, U.S.A won the FA65-69 division with an 897 top-eight average. 14-time masters Major champion Mark Hauser, also won in his division, MA70-74 with a 946 top-eight average.

Lynne Gerber, who won the 2024 United States Women's Disc Golf Championships in the FP75 division and declined cash to maintain her amateur status, won the FA75-79 division. Gene Kouba took MA75-79 down with a 922 top-eight average. He became a world champion in 2024 by winning the MA75 division at the 2024 PDGA Masters Worlds Championships.

Judith Gipson (FA80+) won her division as the only 80+ amateur woman to play more than two rounds. The Florida resident played 11 events in 2024. Gipson's counterpart in the MA80+ division, Robert Burton won with an 888 top-eight average. His highest rated round of the year was a 914 round at the 2024 PDGA Masters Worlds Championships. Gipson and Burton were also the winners of the 80+ divisions for 2023.

In FA70-74, undefeated in the FA70 division at all tournaments, including six majors (four at USWDGC, two at Worlds), Patti Adams won with an 870 top-eight average, becoming also undefeated in the PDGA Global Masters Series.

Patti Adams being given her trophy at the 2024 United States Women's Disc Golf Championships

Professional Divisions

Su Mei Yang of Chinese Taipei edged out the legendary FP60-64 division which includes Elaine King, Pam(ouflage) Reineke, and Chris O'Cleary with a top-eight average rating of 952. Despite being over 60, Yang has played in FPO in all 15 PDGA tournaments she's played in, except for one in 2021 when she played MP50 in the Taiwan National Championship. Yang is signed up to play the 2025 PDGA Professional World Championships, her first PDGA tournament in the U.S.

The professional side of the leaderboard is unsurprisingly full of recognizable names like Cale Leiviska (MP40-49), Ohn Scoggins (FP40-49), Brian Schweberger (MP50-54), Juliana Korver (FP50-54), Barrett White (FP55-59), Sandy Gast (FP65-69), Randy Beers (MP70-74), and Sylvia Voakes (FP80+)

Brian Schweberger, the second (after Elaine King) PDGA player to make it to 300 sanctioned wins (now at 436), added to his collection of wins in 2024 with 6 in MPO, 24 in MP40, and 5 in MP50. He won the MP50-54 division of the 2024 Global Masters Series with a 1052 top-eight average rating, just beating out JohnE McCray who beat him in 2023, with 27 points or three average rating points. In an interview in 2021, Schwebby said he hoped to make it to over 400 wins, "I plan on playing until my arm falls off."

When Randy Beers, the 2024 MP70-74 Global Masters champion, started playing sanctioned events in 1999, his very first event was a masters level event. He was classified as amateur that first year and in 2000, he registered for a professional membership. Beers has 4 major titles, three of them at the Tim Selinske U.S. Masters Championships, and one at the PDGA Masters Worlds Championships in 2023. In 2024, Beers played just 12 tournaments (36 rounds) to get his top-eight average rating of 978.

Bobby Jones of New York, U.S.A, beat out Atsuhito Kawasaki of Japan in the MP65-69 division by just 3 rating points. They both had a 1008 average for their top-eight. Hank Kirwan and Kevin Babbit had another close race to the finish in MP55-59, with Hank winning by an average of just 4 rating points. Four of Babbit's top-eight rated rounds were during the 2024 PDGA Professional Masters Disc Golf World Championships, where he won first place and had a 1020 event rating. Tim Keith edged out Ron Convers by just one average rating point, and 8 total points in the MP60-64 division, beating out hall of famer and four-time masters world champion Jim Oates.

Five-time world champion (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003) and hall of famer Juliana Korver won the FP50-54 division of the GMS with a 986 top-eight average rating. In 2024, she played 31 events, 4 in the elite series and one at the FPO Major level (Champions Cup). Korver went undefeated as expected in FP50 all year long. In FP40, she was only bested once out of nine tournaments, at the 2024 Tim Selinske Masters Championship. Behind her on the FP50-54 leaderboard was three-time world champion (2002, 2005, 2006) and also hall of famer Des Reading. Reading had a top-eight average of 951. Just behind Reading was Mari Watanobe of Japan with a 948 top-eight average.

Shigeko Sekiguchi of Japan won the FP70-74 division with a top-eight average round rating of 925, beating out legends Michele Marini #303, Sue Horn #68, and Sheryl Newland #76. Kazuo Shirai of Japan won the global masters series for the second year in a row, this time moving up to the MP75-79 division with a 1003 top-eight average rating. Janny Darling won FP75-79. Rounding out the professional champions with repeat wins, Barry Fischer with MP80+, and hall of famer Sylvia Voakes won FP80+ as the only woman in that division.

The FP75 division at the 2024 USWDGC: Nancy Wright, Lynne Gerber (FA75-79 winner), Janny Darling (FP75-79 winner).

2025 Leaderboard Launched

Now that the 2024 winners have been finalized and announced, the 2025 edition is officially underway around the globe!

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