Nearly 15 hours after it started, Round 2 of the 2025 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships delivered a thrilling day at The Monster in Tampere in Finland.

Two new leaders emerged and, just 36 holes in, it's abundantly clear that this will be a battle of survival to the finish.

Get caught up on the action below:

• Scoggins Takes the Lead in Round 2
• Ezra Aderhold Breaks Course Record in Tampere
• Lead Card Coverage from JomezPro
• Chase Card Coverage from MDG Media

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How to Tame the Monster

By Bogi Bjarnason
PDGA Europe Board of Directors

How to Dominate at Pro Worlds 101 is part of the curriculum in Finnish elementary schools. It’s not even an elective, but a mandatory course and Iida Lehtomaki is the star pupil.

Coming off the chase card she outdrives even Jen Allen on the treacherous hole 1 and keeps piling on elite level statistics throughout the round in an effective effort to celebrate an early moving day. Ultimately she brings home a 996 rated -2 round that secures her a round three lead card appearance, taking the box just behind Ohn Scoggins.

None of the four lead card players in FPO tomorrow are U.S. born, and two of them are eligible for age protected divisions. Such is the depth of the female field today. 44 year old Laos born Ohn Scoggins sits atop the leaderboard after today’s campaign. The Monster might suggest that it wants distance and lots of it, but what it really yearns is for the player to gently pet her fairways and never venture into the rough, because that’s where the bogeys grow. This is not a scoreable shooting gallery, but a lesson in survival where you need to fend of blow ups with a stick and execute scrambles like your life depended on it.

That is where forehands feast and putting proliferates, which happens to be Ohn´s entire wheelhouse. After a slow start that sees her go even through the front nine, Scoggins turns on the thrusters and slices her way through the back nine to finish five below on the day on the back of a bogey free effort and a complete conversion rate from inside the circle. That is enough to put her up by two going into round three.

On the lead card fist bumps abound, yet chatter is minimal, save for the Kat Mertsch self talk, which is both colorful and plentiful. Particularly on the grassy knoll on hole six, where Kat digs herself an early grave eight strokes deep. Meanwhile Rachel Turton keeps on keeping on until very late in the round when a disastrous green tumbles her twelve spots down the leaderboard.

The two diametrically opposed schools of play put on display by Silva Saarinen and Henna Blomroos continue to battle it out and cling on to the lead card. While Henna´s snap is loud enough to cause a lightning delay, her conversion rate in C1X keeps her from running far, far away from the field. After smashing chains from edge of circle on hole three, she gains no confidence from the feat and goes on to fluff a couple veritable tap ins on the next two holes. To make up for it she nonchalantly rips an anhyzer for 107 meters into the protected bullseye of hole nine, while the rest of the card barely sniffs a makable look.

Playing from Henna´s antipode, Silva laces straight lines and corners on anhyzer while playing “the floor is lava” across the greens. She rides caution and control to even par on the round, which moves her a stroke closer to Blomroos, while maintaining the gap to Hanna Huynh.

Further down the board players are scrambling to maintain relevance. Norwegian young gun Ida Emelia Nesse matches Scoggins´s hot round of -5 top leapfrog the leaderboard by 27 spots. Likewise, Missy Gannon scratches and claws her way up 30 spots with a -2 to find herself in 27th place, while in the B Pool, Maria Eldey Kristínardóttir propels herself to the top with a 970 rated +2 that culminates with an Eagle. 

On the menu for tomorrow is another round of survival mode at The Monster, before birdies are served again at The Beast for the final two rounds. May the odds be ever in your favor!

Ezra Shreds

Up is down, in is out and Ezra Aderhold goes fourteen down at The Monster to crush the course record by five, separate himself from the field and make an honest bid for the 1100 club.

A seven or eight down effort was said to be enough to keep you in the game and perhaps even climb a few rungs towards the summit. And it does for some, but to keeps yourself in the conversation Ezra is conducting you have to be shooting literal lightning while setting fire to every square inch of the property from tee to green and beyond.

As predicted, Niklas continued to rise through the ranks. Following his card is moot as every birdie he cashes echoes throughout the course with rapturous applause and a roar of cheering. Instead we walk with the lead card and endure another slow news day. 

Sully turns in an acceptable -6 effort that lands him in second place four short of Aderhold. Adam Hammes fares slightly worse with a -5 contribution that finds him tied with Anthony Barela, who rode a -9 performance to the top of the chase card. Meanwhile Eetu Tuominen and Pyry Joutsen performed according to expectations and descended to 10th and 20th place respectively. 

The world number one Gannon Buhr takes a sabbatical on the front nine to emerge with the same score to par he entered with. Then his all sucrose diet kicks in to propel him to a -7 on the back and a tie for 3rd with Niklas to send him up to the lead card for tomorrow. 

Round three is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma. The Monster is a ravenous beast that feasts on your hopes and preys on your dreams. Ezra may have tamed it once, but it may well buck him on his next ride. All he can do is hope his buffer survives the day so that he may live to stack birdies another day at the less ravenous Beast in Nokia. Again, nothing is set in stone.