Nealy 8,000 people packed The Beast in Nokia on Saturday for Round 4 of the 2025 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships, and every single person got a show.

Now it's time for the finale in Finland.

15-year-old Iida Lehtomäki will lead the FPO final card of fellow Finns Henna Blomroos and Eveliina Salonen as well as 5-time PDGA Masters World Champion Ohn Scoggins. Blomroos is one stroke back, Scoggins four and Salonen six in the anything-can-happen track in Nokia.

In MPO, it's a shootout as well. Gannon Buhr surged the lead by two strokes, Anthony Barela torched tamed The Beast on Saturday to jump to solo second and Sullivan Tipton and Ezra Aderhold round out the final card out just three strokes behind.

Get caught up on the action:

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• Coverage from JomezPro
• Coverage from MDG Media

By Bogi Bjarnason
PDGA Europe Board of Directors

FPO

Iida Lehtomaki got out of of bed this morning.and decided that the Worlds was hers, and for 15 holes of career defining dominance seldom witnessed before, it truly was. In the pouring morning rain oat Nokia Disc Golf Park, also known as The Beast, young Iida could do no wrong. Her release was crisp as an autumn day, her putter flew true for daunting distances, and nimbly like a kitten she would avoid getting sucked into the void of the implosions happening all around her. 

After a -6 front nine performance that sent shockwaves through the gallery and sew fear in the field, she went flat from holes 10 through 15, yet ceded no ground to her struggling card mates and picked 11 strokes out of Ohn´s wide open pocket. 

Then she had a date with the infamous island on hole 16, and her entire Worlds came crumbling down. After an early OB off the tee she placed a lay up deep in the pocket of the right side fairway, way farther from the island green than you’d like to be. From there her upshot came up short, which let her advance to the OB line. From there she fluffed another backhand, before hitting the bales with another one, after which she went wide and nudged the pin high bale before finally hitting cage on her umpteenth attempt.

Henna Blomroos, meanwhile, smashed two picture perfect drives for a bullseye tap in to take back ten strokes on a single hole and making it a ballgame again. With remarkable poise for someone who just blew up the round of a lifetime (a mere par on 16 would have netted her the highest rated Major round in FPO history) and possibly fumbled a World title, Iida stepped up and calmly sent a drive down the slanted fairway of 17 to then ring up a tester for birdie. After juicing a chipper deep on the approach on hole 18, she then made the incredibly mature decision to lay up for par in the face of death behind the basket on the comeback.

Somehow a octuple bogey left Lehtomaki with a +1 round, still one ahead of Blomroos, who made up just one stroke on the day.

Ohh Scoggins did not prove to be waterproof or even water-resistant, but a +5 performance still keeps her in third place, three strokes behind Henna, and three ahead of Evelina Salonen who sprinted through the back nine to record a -3 round worth 1019 points. If replicated tomorrow, that might give her an outside chance at the title defense.

With an effort identical to Ohn´s, Silva Saarinen effectively clocked herself out of the race, and while Anniken Kristiansen Steen brought the -4 hot round to climb four spots into fifth place.

MPO

Given a few rounds of churn, the cream always rises to the top. Whether it be the number one player in the world in Gannon Buhr slowly bubbling up as the rounds progress and lesser talents run out of steam, or in one big bang as Anthony Barela hits his ceiling and shoots up to second place with an 1105 rated burst of course record setting violence. 

At the same time, Sullivan Tipton re-emerges from the shadows of the chase card with a reminder of how he initially gained the lead in the first place.

Despite a three piece of bogeys on the back nine, his forehand prowess thrusts him back into the spotlight with a third place tie next to Ezra Aderhold.
Speaking of Ezra, the putting woes that first reared its head towards the end of round three, amplified during moving day and his 63% performance from inside the circle make up the difference between the lead and his current third place.

Both Aaron Gossage and the crowd favorite, Niklas Anttila, fell into the final day chase card for similar reasons; a handful of OB strokes and a complete inability to scramble out of tight spots.

Their -29 totals going into Championship Sunday are arguably the benchmark for a realistic final round push for the top, as solo seventh place Adam Hammes sits four whole strokes short of the mark at -25. Other notable performances come in the form of a -8 out of Pyry Joutsen who again proves that he is indeed a horse for this particular course, and Corey Ellis who turns in a -11 heater that comes just a little too late to make a real difference.

Through rounds 2, 3 and 4, Gannon Buhr has started with a fizzle and ended with a bang. Anthony Barela, on the other hand, plays tournaments with the dynamics of a musical arrangement. If tomorrow is in an interlude, Buhr may walk his way to victory. If it is another crescendo, Gannon may have a title fight on his hands.

Let us all hope for the latter.