Beginning Friday, the team-centric event, inspired by golf's Ryder Cup, kicks off three days of disc golf featuring the top finishers from the 2023 DGPT points standings. A skills challenge is set for Friday with doubles and singles action highlighting the weekend at Olympus Disc Golf Course in Brooksville, Florida.
At the forefront of DGN's recent migration to Insys Video Technologies as the network's service provider and an enhanced partnership with Amazon Web Services is the chance for disc golf fans to choose from multiple subscription plans as well as continue their benefits as an active PDGA member. DGN will now offer three plans: DGN Basic, DGN Standard and DGN Pro.
Ricky Wysocki and Missy Gannon battled until the end of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT
This is it, the final round of the 2023 Elite season. After a season of chase card comebacks, logjam leaderboards, first-time PDGA Major winners and a grand slam season, the top tour points leaders fought through the semifinals to make it to the last round of the finals of the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol.
As we’ve seen all year, both the FPO and MPO competitions came down to the hole 18 to crown the 2023 DGPT Champions.
Wysocki set the course record with a 10-under round after the cut was made and the scores were reset heading into the weekend at the final Elite Series event of the year.
The DGPT Championship has been held at the end of the season each year since the DGPT’s inception in 2016, showcasing the players who performed the best in each given year.
The Disc Golf Pro Tour, the official pro tour of the PDGA, is excited to unveil a first look at its 2024 season schedule. The North American tour schedule, alongside the 2024 PDGA Pro Major schedule, represents a large majority of the events that will earn points toward the 2024 DGPT Championship. A separate schedule of DGPT points-earning events based in Europe will be announced at a later date.
Matt Orum celebrates his win at the 2023 MVP Open. Photo: PDGA Media
Maple Hill delivered once again.
Staying on script for the wild 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour season, the final DGPT Playoff event of the year wrapped up with a wild finish on Sunday at the 2023 MVP Open at Maple Hill.
One win was decades in the making and the other set the stage for the on-deck PDGA Major.
Orum lines up a shot on Sunday at Maple Hill. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT
Both fields played in high sustained wins and even higher gusts and the MPO field faced a wind delay as the lead card was about to tee off. At the end of the day, both the FPO and MPO divisions ended with a tie for first that coincidentally includes the winner in each field from the most recent DGPT playoff event.
Calvin Heimburg has the solo lead at the MVP Open heading into the weekend. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT
Welcome to the weekend at Maple Hill.
There were shakeups at the top of both leaderboards after Round 2 of the 2023 DGPT Playoff – MVP Open on Friday, setting up yet another dramatic finish on the 2023 Elite Series.
Even though the course played tough with all but three holes averaging over par and every player taking at least one bogey, the top four players managed to stay under par for the day in the final DGPT Playoff presented by Barbasol event.
Simon Lizotte is the defending MPO champion at Maple Hill. Photos: Kevin Huver / DGPT
With just a short break after the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships, the Disc Golf Pro Tour has landed in Leicester, Massachusetts for the 2023 MVP Open presented by OTB.
Missy Gannon started her title defense strong at the Ledgestone Open. Photo: Gage Hamilton / DGPT
Missy Gannon started her title defense at the 2023 Disc Golf Pro Tour — Discraft Ledgestone Open with a throw that no other FPO player has done in the history of Northwood Black. Meanwhile, a calm day at Lake Eureka opened the floodgates for birdies in MPO.
One day down, three to go at the second DGPT Elite+ event of the year.
As if we needed more excitement, Kristin Tattar's three-shot lead over Missy Gannon vanished at the 10th hole to offer us an even more exciting final round!
We arrive again at the demanding 12th hole, and two almost identical shots have a very different destiny: the World Champion has a small cut-roll at the end that brings her back to inbounds, while the American has a higher skip and stays OB, and this two-stroke swing seems to end the excitement.
The PDGA EuroTour and Disc Golf Pro Tour makes its way out to Vestnes, Norway for the 2023 PCS Open presented by Innova. The PCS Open is the sixth stop of the Euro Tour and takes place just one week before the European Open, so many of the best MPO and FPO players that had been competing on tour in the US are making their way to Norway.
Founded and designed by touring professional Cale Leiviska, the Airborn Disc Golf Preserve in Clearwater, Minnesota is the #1 rated course in the state according to UDisc. The Preserve Championship made its debut in 2020 and is now in its fourth year as an Elite Series event.
This marks the 33rd year of the event and its third year as a Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite Series Event. It's also the second of three-straight stops on the Elite Series.
Both had to battle to the finish to return to the winner’s circle.
Tattar struggled at times during Championship Sunday of the first Elite+ event of 2023 but her six-stroke cushion was more than enough to grab her fifth win in eight starts this season.
Adam Hammes will take a one-stroke lead into Championship Sunday in Portland. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT
A few things were under control on Saturday at Glendoveer Golf Club.
Kristin Tattar kept the lead, and Sai Ananda and Juliana Korver kept pace. Adam Hammes bounced back with a hot round on a day that, in his own words, felt easy at the 2023 DGPT — Portland Open presented by Latitude 64, an Elite+ event.
“It just felt like every shot that I stepped up to, I was in full control of it,” Hammes said. “Never really got nervous on any of them and I executed quite a few. Every time I had the disc in my hand, it felt easy today.”
Other than Tattar at the top of FPO — now with a six-stroke lead — things are moving in Oregon, including Calvin Heimburg surging to the lead card on Saturday, when action shifts to the East course at Glendoveer Golf Club.
Simon Lizotte is back in the PNW to defend his 2022 Portland Open title. Photo: Kevin Huver / DGPT
After two weekends of Silver Series Events, the Disc Golf Pro Tour heads back to Oregon for the 2023 Portland Open Presented by Latitude 64. As well as being the 13th event on the 2023 DGPT schedule, this year’s Portland Open will be the first ever Elite+ Event. This new designation is shared by the upcoming Discraft Ledgestone Open and will feature higher purses, additional media focus, and 150% points awarded, the same as PDGA Majors and DGPT playoff events.
The OTB Open started as the San Francisco Open in 2018 as part of the Disc Golf Pro Tour, then moved to Stockton, California and partnered with OTB Discs in 2021. A new course was designed at Swenson Park by Leonard Muise, who had also designed the course at Gleneagles for the SFO. Now in its third year on the Elite Series, the OTB Open is the sixth Elite Series event of the 2023 season.
The Jonesboro Open started as a PDGA B-Tier in 2017 and moved up to an Elite Series event in 2018. Now in its seventh year, the 2023 Jonesboro Open will be the fifth Elite Series event of the season.
