History was already made when the first disc was thrown on Wednesday in Finland at the 2025 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championship.

The finale just put the ultimate bow on a record-setting and history-writing World Championship.

As is has since its inception, The Beast in Nokia, complimented by The Monster in Tampere, delivered a thrilling finish that went down to the wire.

Ohn Scoggins, the five-time and reigning PDGA Masters World Champion, became the oldest FPO World Champion in history in a playoff against the Finnish phenom, Iida Lehtomäki, who introduced herself to the disc golf world in the biggest way and was aiming to become the youngest FPO World Champion in history, in a playoff.

Later in the afternoon, Gannon Buhr, the No. 1 player in the world, didn't blink as he completed his quest to be on top of the World.

Get caught up on the action below:

• Gannon Buhr, the new MPO World Champion
• Ohn Scoggins is the FPO World Champion
• Lead Card Coverage from JomezPro
• Chase Card Coverage from MDG Media

By: Bogi Bjarnason
PDGA Europe Board of Directors

FPO

Coming from four strokes behind the lead, Ohn Scoggins steals back a couple on the first two holes, only to hand them back to Blomroos and Lehtomaki on hole three, where distance is at a premium. On the tee of four, nothing has changed between the three frontrunners. From there Henna starts gaining steam as she starts creating a gap with three unreciprocated birdies on a five hole stretch. Evellina Salonen, meanwhile, sprints out the gate on tee of hole one with a -3 start through five holes, before blowing up her chances with a three putt on the green of six.

Lehtomaki starts the back nine with a bogey, and after she taps out her third consecutive one on hole thirteen, we start scanning the scoreboard for a new shiny thing.

With a turkey on the stretch Iiida just bogeyed, a challenger emerges in Ella Hansen who is riding a nearly non-stop birdie train to a -10 through 12 holes. With Ella’s arm, there are three Eagles available out there on the final stretch.four After a quiet couple par holes, she picks up probably the trickiest one on hole 15 with a stellar drive down the gut and a risky Eagle putt from edge of circle into an elevated basket with out of bounds behind.

Starting from hole 14, Iida picks up a Turkey to offset the bogey run and bring herself back into the conversation. On hole 16 the tables turn from the previous day’s storyline. As Henna skips OB off of the drive, both the 44 year old Laotian and the Finnish teenager lay up to the kidney shaped part across the skinniest OB gap, while Henna goes green hunting. Her upshot looks nearly perfect until it barely skips into the OB gravel deep of the basket. Her second attempt finds the bullseye, limiting the damage to two strokes ceded to her closest competitors.

At this point you’ve got to assume that everyone on lead card is aware of the barn burner that Ella is conducting from the chase card. The slanted green of hole seventeen leaves no room for error and it does none of the first three players to tee any favors as all three birdie runs roll into the OB pin high. Last to tee is Henna Blomroos and she selects for safety. Her lay up is good enough and as the whole card converts on their par putts from inside five meters, Henna is left with a four meter routine tap in. Unfortunately no putt is routine for a player converting on 25% of C1X putts on the day and Blomroos proceeds to shank the putt high and right. At this point she has coughed up her whole cushion and needs to birdie hole 18 to stand a fighting chance, but when her upshot leaks OB left, her goose is fully cooked.

Moments earlier Ella’s unstoppable force had just run into an unmovable OB, which she compounded into a bogey with a two putt from inside 20 feet, putting an end to her fairy tale run.

From the stands around the tee of 18 the initial fairway of this FPO par 5 is not visible, so when an upshot emerges from around the corner and finds safety in the middle of the slope, the audience assumes it’s her second shot. From there she pitches up under the basket and taps in. The gallery drops a collective sigh of relief before victorious cheers erupt. Ohn then proceeds to drop in for a birdie and confusion ensues when Jussi Meresmaa announces through the PA that we’re going to a play-off. Ohn wins the coin flip and leaks her forehand OB by a scotch. Iida, meanwhile gets way up the hill in two throws. Scoggins has put herself four meters from the pin with a towering hyzer for an automatic par make. Her percentages on the day are 105% from Circle 1X and she has cashed in on 6 out of 9 looks from outside the circle, including three straight on holes six through seven.

For the chip up of her lifetime, Iida opts not to spike it wide around the line nor juice it a bit extra for good measure, but to fluff it short across the out of bounds area, where it comes to rest with a heartbreaking thud. She only gets to move up to just with in jump putt range and after a short discussion with her caddy, she lays it up under the pin, forcing Scoggins to putt for the win.

MPO

Nervy drives abound from the lead card on hole one, and save for Sullivan Tipton’s heroic downhill make from the middle of Circle 2, everyone walks away with a par. But with a two stroke swing, Buhr already doubles the gap between him and Barela. Anthony then launches a ten hole birdie tirade which threatens to repeat the outburst on the previous day. As for Sullivan Tipton, he opens with four consecutive birdie conversions before hitting cage from 19 feet. Unfazed he resumes the assault on the next hole and wraps up the front nine at six under par. Buhr isn´t quite as antsy as his card mates and closes out the same stretch at five under par after a brutal spit back courtesy of basket number seven robbed him of a stroke. Ezra Aderhold comes out with a -6 to round out the card. On holes 10 and 11 Sully commits a series of unforced errors to the tune of a bogey and a double to take himself out of the title conversation. The only other gentlemen with a chance to contest are Sir Anttila and Mister Gossage and the reside at the top of the chase card. The Worlds

Whisperer is starting a streak to chase down Josh Anthon’s record for most second place finishes at Worlds, and today’s 1091rated -13 effort takes him halfway to that goal. Anttila opens with four straight, takes a two hole breather, before exploding for another eight birdie makes in a row. An OB drive on hole 15 stops him dead in the tracks, necessitating a Turkey to close out in order to stand a chance.

A double bogey on hole 12 closes the door on Aderholds dream, and then there is only a two horse race left on the lead card failing some fireworks from Niklas and Aaron. As Gannon puts his second shot on the island for a birdie he is basically dormie for a Worlds title. As Niklas brings in a bogey on hole 18, The Goose cashes a birdie that puts him at a -42, two strokes behind the -44 Buhr has accrued through hole 16.

An OB drive on hole 17 and a failure to convert on the bogey putt slightly hampers Buhr, as mistakes on the final hole have become unacceptable. Not to fret as two shots take him to the edge of his jump putt upshot range and he deliberates at length before electing for a throw underneath the pin for his first and well deserved World title.