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2025 PDGA Champions Cup Invitation Criteria Announced

By: Jennie Greathouse-Nance #158303
Friday, March 1, 2024 - 11:22

The PDGA Majors Committee has announced invitation criteria for the 2025 PDGA Champions Cup.

The invite criteria was designed to honor the champions from disc golf’s premier professional and amateur events. For 2025, the criteria has been updated to now include an additional two-year champions' exemption for the PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships (2022-2023), an additional six spots for DGPT event champions, and the champion of the Throw Pink Women's Disc Golf Championship

Invitations to the 2025 edition will be awarded to the MPO and FPO winners from all 18 DGPT Elite Series events, 11 DGPT Europe Events, eight PDGA Majors and a handful of National Championships including Canadian Nationals, the Australian Disc Golf Championship, the Japan National Championship and the New Zealand National Championship.

Find the list of qualifying events below.

2025 Champions Cup Qualifiers (tier) # of players
Chess.com Invitational ES 2
Waco Annual Charity Open ES 2
The Open at Austin ES 2
Texas State Disc Golf Championships ES 2
Jonesboro Open ES 2
Music City Open ES 2
Dynamic Discs Open ES 2
OTB Open ES 2
Portland Open ES 2
Beaver State Fling ES 2
The Preserve Championship ES 2
Des Moines Challenge ES 2
Ledgestone Open ES 2
Idlewild Open ES 2
DGLO ES 2
Green Mountain Championship ES 2
MVP Open ES 2
DGPT Championships ES 2
Copennhagen Open ES 2
Turku Open ES 2
Swedish Open ES 2
Krokol Open ES 2
European Disc Golf Festival ES 2
Belgian Open A 2
Norway Open A 2
Heinola Open A 2
Ale Open A 2
Jarva Open x Tyyni A 2
Baltic Disc Golf Championships A 2
USWDGC (FPO and FA1) M 2
Champions Cup (Top 5 + ties) M 10+
USADGC (MA1) M 1
Masters Worlds (MP40 and FP40) M 2
European Open M 2
Am Worlds (MA1 and FA1) M 2
Pro Worlds (3 year Champions' Exemption) M 6
USDGC M 1
Throw Pink Women's Championship A 1
Canadian Nationals A 2
Australian Disc Golf Championship A 2
Japan National Championship ? 2
New Zealand National Championship A 2
Event Type # of players
Total DGPT Qualifying Players 36
Total European Tour Qualifying Players 22
Total Other Qualifying Players 9
Total Major Qualifying Spots 28
Total Available Qualifying Spots 95
  * plus ties

The Majors Committee may, at its discretion, continue to add more qualifying events throughout the 2024 season, and may reserve invites for international players not otherwise qualified (up to five each, MPO and FPO).

Any remaining spots will be filled using a tiered registration system based on PDGA Player Ratings.

For questions or comments, contact the Majors committee.

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