Kristin Tattar will defend her PDGA World Championship at Smugglers' Notch in 2023. Photo: PDGA Media

Bigger and better.

That’s how disc golf has operated over the past few seasons and that trend will continue in 2023 and the proof is here with the release of the 2023 PDGA Elite Series, PDGA Euro Tour and PDGA Majors schedule.

The European Open will once again be a PDGA Major in 2023. Photo: PDGA Media

It’s a global schedule that includes 11 PDGA Majors, 12 PDGA EuroTour events, and 16 total Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite Series stops, including two DGPT Playoff events and the DGPT Tour Championship.

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Over the nine months of the 2023 schedule, which kicks off with the DGPT – Las Vegas Challenge in February and wraps with the DGPT Championship in October, players will compete for Elite Series titles and PDGA Major championships.

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The 2023 schedule represents an ongoing collaboration between the PDGA and the Disc Golf Pro Tour, which enters its second season as the Official Pro Tour of the PDGA, to ensure a flow that benefits players and fans as well as the countless stakeholders involved in these incredible events around the world.

The PDGA Champions Cup will return to the IDGC in April. Photo: DGPT

Some highlights include:

• PDGA Champions Cup returns to the International Disc Golf Center in Appling, Georgia for an early-season Pro Major in April.
• European Open returns to the Beast in Nokia, Finland for the second-straight year.
• Back to Smuggs, the PDGA Professional World Championships return to Vermont for the first time since 2018 on Labor Day Weekend in 2023.

Smugglers' Notch will host the 2023 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships. Photo: DGPT

• 11 DGPT events return in 2023 but new events — The Open at Austin debuts in March in Austin, Texas and the Music City Open, which was elevated from a DGPT Silver Event in 2022, returns to the Elite Series in April in Nashville, Tennessee.
• Two events — the Portland Open and the Ledgestone Open — receive a new DGPT Elite+ status, which will feature bigger purses, additional media focus, and elevated spectator experiences.
• Discraft's Great Lakes Open and the MVP Open at Maple Hill will serve as the two DGPT Playoff events.

Hailey King will defend her USWDGC in Burlington, North Carolina in 2023. Photo: PDGA Media

• Coast-to-coast: From Smugglers’ Notch to Oregon, competitors will compete for PDGA Major titles — open and age-protected — across the United States.
• Up from seven events in 2022, there are now 12 events on the PDGA EuroTour, including a DGPT stop at the PCS Sula Open in July, a week before the European Open, as well as the EuroTour Championship as the finale in Spain.

Get ready, disc golf, once again, is bigger and better than ever.

Here's a look at the full schedule. Final, up-to-date schedules can be found on their event pages: