Aria Castruita is the 2021 National Amateur Disc Golf Tour Champion. Photo: Hayden Henry / PDGA
Aria Castruita took a victory lap this past weekend to add another big win to the family trophy case.
They might have to build a bigger display soon.
Castruita went wire-to-wire this weekend at the National Amateur Disc Golf Tour Championship to defend her NADGT title, one that will set next to her 2021 PDGA FJ15 World Championship.
“Super excited,” Aria told the Disc Golf Network’s Nate Perkins. “I came back and won it.”
Micah Groth is the 2021 NADGT Champion. Photo: Hayden Henry / PDGA
Micah Groth is taking notes every step of the way so far in his young disc golf career.
At the 2021 PDGA Junior World Championships, he learned about the pressure of the big moments. Back home, it’s iron-sharpens-iron on the courses in South Carolina, a place that continues to churn out disc golf talent. On the course, he adjusts and makes calculated decisions.
Groth, who recently turned 16, torched the MetCenter on Saturday to the tune of a 10-under, bogey-free round to jump from the chase card to a three-stroke lead over Pettigrew heading into Championship Sunday.
Fellow South Carolina native Brent Hannu is four strokes back of Groth in third place.
Calvin Pettigrew, of Tennessee, and Brent Hannu, of South Carolina, held on to the top spots in the MPO A Pool heading into the weekend in Austin, Texas.
Through nearly 250 events in 2021, the NADGT saw over 18,000 players compete for a chance to qualify for the championship, which runs through Sunday and visits 12 courses throughout Texas’ capital city.
The series was previously called the Next Generation Tour and it has lived up to that title.
