🥏 Kansas City is Wide Open for the taking

Happy Friday, you’re In The Circle! Hope you spiced up your July 4th celebrations with some rounds at the disc golf course!

On today’s card:

• 👁️ Kansas City Wide Open Preview

• 🏆 Tournament Recaps

• 🗳️ PDGA Elections

Read time: 4 minutes and 10 seconds

👁️ KCWO PREVIEW

The sixth Disc Golf Pro Tour Silver event is underway in Missouri at the Kansas City Wide Open.

This will be the 41st year of the KCWO, but the first as a DGPT event. It has been on the PDGA tour since year one and 90% of the PDGA world champions have won this event.

📺 How to watch

First-round live coverage is available on the DGPT YouTube channel.

🏆 Past KCWO Champions

• 2022 - Andrew Marwede (-25) / Ellen Widboom (+7)

• 2021 - Gannon Buhr (-20) / Nova Politte (+19)

• 2020 - Peter Bures (-3) / Nova Politte (+11)

• 2019 - Paul McBeth (-32) / Missy Gannon (+14)

👀 What we’re watching

• Most of the top pros are skipping out on this event as they gear up to head over to Europe for the upcoming PCS and European Open tournaments. However, young guns Gannon Buhr and Cole Redalen will stay in the States and not make the trip to compete overseas. Gannon already has one DGPT Silver event win this year and is looking for his second. Cole has yet to get a win in 2023 but has secured multiple DGPT podiums this year.

• On the FPO side, Holyn Handley is one of the few top female athletes sticking around to compete in the Silver event. Holyn has three podiums in her last five DGPT events and is set up well to capitalize on the thin FPO field this weekend.

🏆 TOURNAMENT RECAPS

The Preserve Championship

The raptor legs were out and about at The Preserve this past weekend as Ricky Wysocki secured his first DGPT Elite Series win of the 2023 season. He led the MPO field from the start after shooting a -15, 1082-rated round one. Cole Redalen matched Ricky’s -15 under in the third round, tieing for second place with Calvin Heimburg.

Like Ricky, Catrina Allen was on top in the FPO division from start to finish. She started the tournament by setting a 1032-rated round-one course record. Picking up her first tour podium since 2021, Rebecca Cox tied Kristin Tattar for second place.

The Prodigy baskets were not playing nice with the Prodigy-sponsored players. Isaac Robinson had a couple of bad spit-outs while Gannon Buhr had a similar struggle on hole 18.

On a brighter note, there were quite a few epic highlights from the tournament including an ace from Kat Mertsch in round one. Check out highlights from the MPO field here.

Swedish Open

Paul McBeth picked up his second Euro Tour win this year. He has two more Euro Tour events before moving on to the PDGA European Open in mid-July.

Going back-to-back, Silva Saarinen now has two Euro Tour wins in a row and looks to make it three with the Skelleftea Open this weekend.

PDGA Amateur and Junior World Championships

After grinding through difficult weather conditions, the 800+ players competing in the Amateur and Junior World Championships concluded play on Sunday just in time to enjoy July 4th festivities.

Here are your 2023 PDGA Amateur and Junior World Champions:

🗳️ PDGA ELECTIONS

PDGA elections are live for all current PDGA members as of June 25th. Voting began on July 1st and continues through the whole month.

Elected candidates will assume their respective offices on September 1st and will serve a three-year term ending in August 2026.

Up for election are two open positions on the PDGA Global Board of Directors and three open positions on the PDGA Europe Board of Directors.

Check out the candidates vying for the limited spots on each board:

• PDGA Global Board Candidates

• PDGA Europe Board Candidates

What does the Board of Directors do?

Members of the board have a wide range of tasks that include setting PDGA policies, hiring and supervising staff, budgeting, and representing the membership’s vision for the sport and the association.

Interested in what qualifications you need to be a board member, check them out here.

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