Paige Pierce tees off during the 2021 DGPT Championship. Photo: DGPT
Disc golf is returning to the Worldwide Leader in Sports this weekend.
At 3 p.m. ET on Sunday, November 14, the 2021 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Guaranteed Rate is set to air on ESPN2.
Both fans of the sport, as well as casual viewers, will see the exciting conclusion to the 2021 DGPT season in this two-hour event, which will be the second time that disc golf will be featured on the ESPN family of networks in 2021 and third time in the past two years.
Nathan Queen celebrates after winning the 2021 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship. Photo: DGPT
Every time Nathan Queen was announced on the first tee, the cheers were a little louder. Every time the North Carolina native laced a drive or nailed a big putt, the roar from the gallery grew.
Queen, the North Carolina native, made a lot of noise this week.
Drew Gibson came up clutch in back-to-back-to-back shots to end the semifinal round. Nathan Queen, the Cinderalla story of these championships, let all of the Queen City know he was still in contention on hole 18.
Meanwhile, Adam Hammes torched the course from the top card, as did Paul McBeth.
“It’s going to be a battle at the end,” Gannon told Jamie Thomas of the Disc Golf Network. “Making that 55-footer might actually mean something. That’s why I gave it a run, to make sure I had a practice putt in there.”
Juliana Korver laughs at the 2021 Music City Open in Nashville. Photo: Kevin Huver / PDGA
She’s still got it.
Juliana Korver stepped away from her desk earlier this season and back onto the disc golf course this year looking to see if she could still compete at the professional level.
The results and the embracement of the community speak for themselves.
Gannon Buhr, a two-time PDGA Junior World Champion, is rising the MPO ranks. Photo: Alyssa Van Lanen / DGPT
Gannon Buhr’s first PDGA win came just over six years ago.
He was 10.
Since then, Buhr has continued growing, literally, on the disc golf course, racking up wins at the amateur level, including two PDGA Junior World Championships, and over the past year, turning in a breakout year in the professional ranks.
