For the second-straight year and third time overall, Missy Gannon hoisted the DGPT Championship trophy and the huge check that comes with it after a record-setting day in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The starting stroke advantages are gone and the race to a $35,000 check is on.
Ricky Wysocki and Kristin Tattar, both down a few strokes before play even began at the 2024 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship presented by Barbasol, erased those starting deficits and both find themselves leading by two stokes with three rounds to go in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Missy Gannon had plans to go swimming when she got to the course on Sunday morning.
James Proctor asked his caddie what the situation was in the biggest moment of the weekend and made some plans himself.
Both delivered on those plans.
A thrilling finish was brewing from the first tee on Thursday morning at the 2024 Disc Golf Pro Tour — MVP Open x OTB and it happened in a big way Sunday at Maple Hill.
The tight battles will continue all the way until the end at Maple Hill with Kristin Tattar hanging on to her three-stroke lead in FPO and the co-leaders in MPO — Ricky Wysocki and Aaron Gossage — doing just enough to keep their names atop the leaderboard in Leicester, Massachusetts.
Both divisions had three-way ties after the first run through beloved Maple Hill with the field right behind them. FPO has a little separation, which doesn't mean much in Leichester, but MPO is still a logjam behind the new two co-leaders.
Both divisions have three-way ties at the top of the leaderboard after the first 18 of the four-round event, the final DGPT stop of the season with championship implications on the line, and the field is right behind them.
Kristin Tattar and Gannon Buhr both put the pedal to the metal coming down the stretch in Vermont to take down the first DGPT Playoff event of the season — Tattar in another huge comeback and Buhr by finishing strong yet again.
Handley entered Championship Sunday of the final DGPT+ event of the season with a one-stroke lead and dropped one of the hottest rounds of the day to roll to a three-stroke victory, her third Elite Series win of the season.
Gannon Buhr woke up and took off in the afternoon after Holyn Handley came out the gate swinging in the morning as both left the Peoria, Illinois area with another DGPT title this season, both coming with seven-stroke wins.
Both leaders kept pace after another sprint around the Peoria, Illinois area on Saturday and both will have a small cushion heading into Championship Sunday of this DGPT+ event.
After wrapping up the European swing of the Major and Elite Series schedule, it was right back to action on Thursday in Illinois for Round 1 of the DGPT+ event.
Krokhol proved to be a much harder challenge as the sun gave way to the sizzling rain on the last DGPT Europe event before European Open next week.
The tough conditions meant that not a single eagle was had throughout the day, but the amount of double bogeys had increased by a considerable amount however.
To prove just how much the rain affected the field, not a single player managed to take an eagle on the final day, whereas they had treated the spectators to 12 in the previous two days – nine of which were on hole 18, including Anthony Barela’s absolute park job on Moving Day.
What a great showing we got on the second round of the DGPT Europe Elite Series Krokhol Open presented by Latitude 64!
Birdies were chased throughout the day and the leaderboards certainly look different after the second round. Across both divisions, only 7 players of the 149 players remaining have stayed in the same positions after a round that provided a lot of highlights.
And everything was in place for a perfect day of disc golf. The venue at Krokhol Disc Golf Course, the best rated course in the world on UDisc, makes for spectacular viewings, and when the best players in the world battle it out in near perfect conditions on this warm summer’s Friday, well, then something special is bound to happen.
