A 15-year old Finnish phenom and the five-time defending PDGA Masters World Champion.

An MPO leaderboard that's incredibly tight.

Welcome to Moving Day at the 2025 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships.

Iida Lehtomäki and Ohn Scoggins enter Round 4, where action shifts back to The Beast in Nokia for the finish in Finland, tied at the top with a two-stroke lead while Ezra Aderhold clings to a one-stroke lead over Niklas Anttila and three more players within three strokes.

Buckle up, it's going to be a battle to the very end for a PDGA World Championship title.

Get caught up on the action below:

• Lehtomäki ties at the top at Pro Worlds
• Anttila Nearly Catches Aderhold – Only One Stroke Behind
• Coverage from JomezPro
• Coverage from MDG Media

By Bogi Bjarnason
PDGA Europe Board of Directors

MPO

On round 3, Ezra Aderhold picked up where he left off yesterday and ripped a pair of strokes out of the clutches of the card on the opening couple holes. But order was quickly restored with birdies out of Buhr and Anttila to an Aderhold bogey when he found the rough right out of the hand on hole 4. Sullivan Tipton, meanwhile, came out the gate flat as The Netherlands and even gave a stroke back to the field on hole 5 courtesy of a mis-released forehand upshot that immediately found the treetops in front of him. He then righted ship with consecutive birdies and stayed clear of the grey for the rest of the round to card a 1040 rated -5 that keeps him outside the lead card but looking in. He’s currently tied for 4th with the Worlds Whisperer Aaron Gossage, whose 1076 rated -11 down round would have been the course record had he shot it two days ago before Aderhold had his way with The Monster. 

After the entire card gave up a stroke to Sully on hole 5  Nicke briefly caught fire for a barrage of birdies before handing the torch over to Gannon for a birdie run of his own. Ezra Aderhold, meanwhile was busy being bucked by The Monster, who was upset by the previous day’s treatment and decided to treat him to a dose of rough lies in the cold embrace of the trees. After fighting his way out, he immediately started inflicting wounds on him self on the putting green. On hole 13 he chained out from 4 meters. But on the next hole Tipton and Buhr seemingly handed the stroke right back to with shanked tee shots, before Ezra handed it back to them again with another shoddy putt from 8 meters.

Aderhold´s round two -14 heater quickly shrank to a more pedestrian 1034 rated -4 on the day, which still managed to keep him in control of his own fate with a stroke in hand going into round 4 after the whole card save for Sully chained out their respective birdie looks on the mound of hole 18. 
While sleeping on the lead deep into the Pro World Championship is but a distant dream to most players, Ezra should sleep with one eye open because he’s got a couple certified killers breathing down his neck and Gannon will not rest until he’s got Ezra’s head skewered on a stake outside the door of his favorite Texas Steakhouse branch.
More to come.

FPO

Did we mention that Iida Lehtomaki is 15 years old yet? No? Well, Iida Lehtomaki is a mere 15 years old, and her performance (which she wasn’t happy with, btw) through rounds one and two wasn’t just a flash in the pan. No, she just built on that performance by dropping the hot round on day three while hunting down Ohn Scoggins for the shared lead.

Today she “missed every putt”, which actually amounted to two out of ten from Circle 2, and made one of six looks from outside the arc, while also leading the field in birdie rate. To put that into perspective, Henna Blomrros had to lead five different throwing statistics just to fall one stroke off of Iida’s pace. 

The wind was up a bit, which might have brought Silva Saarinen back to earth again, but her -2 effort on 77% and 20% CIX and C2 putting respectively keeps her four strokes short of the lead. This keeps her solidly within striking distance with two more rounds to play on a much more score-able venue, but more importantly, she’s added a stroke of padding to keep her four ahead of the pack going into moving day, where a solid outing should push them into complete obscurity. 

Looking down to the chase card, Ida Emilie Nesse failed to reproduce her previous hot round while turning in a +2 effort that effectively takes her out of title contention barring a barrage of choke jobs at the top. Hanna Huynh is languishing in similar territory in sole 8th place on the back of a +2 performance on the day. Jumping up to 5th through 7th place with under par outings  are Kat Mertsch, Ella Hansen and reigning World Champion Eveliina Salonen, respectively.

Anyone of them who wants to reengage with the title race in any meaningful manner will have to make tomorrow a moving day to remember.

A glut of storylines and a myriad narratives have emerged from this, the most remarkable disc golf World Championships to date. The defining moment of today’s lead card, however, came of the green of 18. Silva Saarinen, with a lie just outside the circle a pace down the slanted wall of the lower tier of the pyramid structure digs her toe in to establish solid footing, only to fall forward on her swing. She breaks her fall with her hands and, seemingly in actual pain, she resets and buries the putter in the chains while maintaining perfect balance. True grit that is. Ohh scoggins then steps up and like wise buries her edge of circle look from atop the platform. The pressure immediately transfers to Henna Blomroos who has 7 meters left for birdie and a three-way tie at the top. Anyone reading this knows what happens next.

The title will come down to a set of decisions. Whoever emerges victorious will probably be the one who makes them with their head as opposed to their heart.