summary
The European Disc Golf Festival was a highly enjoyable event with exciting competition and a festival-like atmosphere. Missy Gannon emerged as the FPO champion after a playoff, while Ricky Wysocki dominated the MPO division with an impressive round. The event saw some players shooting well above their ratings, while others struggled to cash. The standings in the Disc Golf Pro Tour were affected by the results, with Gannon and Wysocki battling for the top spots. The event was well-covered and featured a challenge event and field games that added to the overall experience.
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European Disc Golf Festival, competition, FPO champion, playoff, Ricky Wysocki, dominant performance, ratings, Disc Golf Pro Tour standings, coverage, challenge event, field games
takeaways
- The European Disc Golf Festival was a highly enjoyable event with exciting competition and a festival-like atmosphere.
- Missy Gannon emerged as the FPO champion after a playoff, while Ricky Wysocki dominated the MPO division with an impressive round.
- The event saw some players shooting well above their ratings, while others struggled to cash.
- The standings in the Disc Golf Pro Tour were affected by the results, with Gannon and Wysocki battling for the top spots.
- The event was well-covered and featured a challenge event and field games that added to the overall experience.
(upbeat music) - Hello and welcome to Disc Golf Daily, the podcast that tries to catch you up on all things Disc Golf in about eight to 10 minutes. I'm Brian Papa-Wolf-Frawley and I've got your Sunday recap of the European Disc Golf Festival. Let me tell you, if there's an event that I would go to, if I had the millions and millions, it would be this one, every time. From the competition ahead of the event to the competition in the event, it was super fun to watch. I really enjoyed how Disc Golf Pro Tour and Disc Golf Network presented this and shout out to everyone at Tala Nenseong Festival Grounds for making that place look beautiful. And of course, shout out to all the fans that showed up to watch this. It really was a true festival, if you will. Really cool starting hole, really cool finishing hole, really brought the entire game together. And I think it showed with some amazing battles coming down throughout the weekend in a lot of excitement on both the MPO and FPO side, but on the FPO side, after round two, we saw Heidi Lene in first place with a three-stroke lead over Missiganin and Katie Asalou. Jenny Copperman rounds out your top four-year chase card has a lot of familiar names of Carrie Teku, Katie Tatte, Avelina Saladin, and Hannah Blumros. Notice we didn't say a name in there that's pretty familiar, especially in Europe, on the chase card, if you will, is Kristin Tatar going into the third and final round. That third and final round started off with a little boring stretch, if you will, for Heidi Leney or a safe stretch, depending on how you want to look at it, but through the first eight holes, she was only one down. That person chasing her Missiganin ended up being through four down, through the same eight holes, and from the chase card, we had Avelina Saladin being two down through those same four holes, but it was the back nine, that was the story. Missiganin grabs herself four birdies, two bogeys. Avelina Saladin from that chase card grabs herself, six birdies, no bogeys. Heidi Leney only grabs one stroke, meaning three birdies, two bogeys, and we ended up having a playoff. I don't know if you could do the math real quick in your head there, but yeah, Missiganin and Avelina Saladin got themselves a playoff and shooting off of that great stage on hole one on the par five for FPO. It was pretty exciting. You could hear the announcer announcing in the stadium what was about to happen, how they were gonna play one and then 18 and one and then 18. I thought the coverage was a great job of explaining what the rules were gonna be as far as who's gonna go first, and all that. None of it mattered because after one hole we had winner and Missiganin grabs herself a victory in Europe and that's gonna come in to play with those disc off pro tour standings later on, but we had some amazing people shoot pretty high over their rating on the FPO side. Elizabeth De Pecansina from Latvia, shot 52 points over her rating. Carrie Teku who took six place, shot 50 points over her rating and Birgit Weider shot 40 points over her rating. Of course there is the Yang with the Yang and we saw some familiar names, not Cash. Sarah Holcomb, Rachel Turton, who's had a great year and Olivia Kindesnet were the highest rate of players to not cash if you will. Missiganin gets the full points from this event for your disc off pro tour standings. 100 points, she got 150 last week for a third, which secures her up at the top with 1,137 and a half points, but interesting fact. She got 250 points in the last two weeks. That's more than roughly 95 players that are listed on the FPO side. So with the shakeup, if you will, Evelyna moves up to second as well. Own and Holland were idle, if you will, but back in the States and Christians, that's our rounds out your top five now heading into legstone next week and the disc golf pro tour plus event on the MPO side. Oh my goodness, did we have fun in the first round? How much fun did we have? We had a young man named Ricky Wysocky shooting a unofficial 119, oh wait, 119, oh wait, 10, 1100 and 19. Yes, that was a giant, giant amount of ratings, if you will. Highly suggest you head on over to stat Mando's Twitter or axe account, if you will. They gave a great breakdown of how many all time thousand or 1100 rated rounds there were included and not included with Memorial, which scored really well for many people back in the day, but Ricky's 110, or sorry, 119 rating was pretty crazy. One of the highest ratings ever in our sport and truly a great round to watch. So definitely check that post production coverage out. A minus 16, he only missed two holes, whole 10 and whole 14, pretty crazy in that first round. But at the end of two rounds, we had some, we had some shooters up top, all American lead card after two, we had Ricky Wysocky, Kyle Klein, Paul Macbeth and Aaron Gossage on your lead card going into the final round with Jonan Henninen, James Proctor, Rainer's Bulletis and James Conrad as your chase card. And we were entertained as fans, starting off, Ricky gets two out of the first three, Paul gets two out of the first three, Kyle gets two out of the first three, unfortunately, his non-birdie was a bogey. And those two out of the first three, Mcbeth started him on a roll. He ended up getting eight in a row, eight of the first nine. Ricky gets six of the first nine, throws a bogey in there to bring it real close. Moving on through the back nine, Ricky finds two bogeys to Paul's. No bogeys, Paul shoots a four down in the back nine. Ricky only shoots a two down in the back nine. Going into the final hole, Paul Mcbeth was down by one stroke, both of them threw it right about to circle's edge. Paul was up first and Paul's put did not stay. Ricky throws underneath. They both tap in for the three and Ricky grabs himself, the victory at the event. What a wonderful show for the fans to watch. A little nostalgia for us that have been watching the game for a while seeing Ricky and Paul battle again. Isn't that exciting for at least the super fans? I hope you got to really witness everything that you wanted to see in that battle. Also shout out to the players. Looks hurt. All the players on the lead card were battling some sort of soreness or injury. Kyle was very stiff. You could see that you saw shots of Paul rubbing his elbow a few times and then Ricky's back was tight as well. So at the end of the day, Ricky is the champion. Paul is in second and then Yeonad Heinenan takes the podium, finished in third place, Kyle Klein holds off Roland Kührer and vinyl macula and Aaron Gausage to take fourth. He, those three names, tied for fifth and Simon Lazat rounds out your eighth position. There was some players that shot really well over there. Yeonan, Yeoho, sorry. Pelkininen shot 51 points over his rating to cash. Went from a 9.97 rating and shot well into the 10.40. He took 23rd place. Tristan Tanner, a more familiar name for us as well. 46 points over his rating to a top 10 finish. Yossa Berg shot 38 points in Roland Kührer, shot 38 points over his rating to secure a top five position as well for Roland. Unfortunately, you know that we have Yang and we know that we have Yang. We got three players that are pretty well known that did not cash and have high ratings. That's Eagle McMahon, Gavin Babcock and Casey White. With Ganon Burr shooting that final hot round, I believe, final round hot round, that did help him earn 45 points in your disc golf pro-tour standings. Ricky secures 100 points for that win. Those two have been battling atop the standings. Ganon Burr is ahead right now by only 18-ish points. Give or take. Ricky Wysocki's in second. Nicholas Antila is in third. Anthony Burrella in fourth and Calvin Heimberg round out your top five. Kyle did a great job getting 69 points for fourth place today. That helps close the gap a little, but Calvin still got him by over 95 points between fifth and six. Great job on the coverage. Again, I know I said it, but I thought it was really well put together. As far as the course goes on the men's side, it looks like hole 14 ended up being the most boring hole on the course. Kind of just bluh through all four rounds. Almost three quarters par, if you will, for the MPO on hole 14. On the FPO side, pretty good spread throughout hole 16, and hole four gave the most pars, if you will, a lot less of the others. Two thirds pars for both of them. But overall, you can't say enough about how cool the event was. Wanna shout out Anna Christian Sten, her Instagram post talking about the challenge event. If you will, the field games day prior to the event. She was on Team Big Germ with Eagle McMan, and she says how to make a disc off a superstar challenge event, just as the Estonians. They obviously know how to do it. Really cool event. If you haven't seen any of the coverage of that, you really should check it out. It just adds a little bit more flavor to an otherwise great event. Stay tuned throughout the week for the United Rankings of Disc Golf. Make sure you give us a follow on Instagram, Facebook, X. Give us an email if you have any comments, questions, or concerns at discoffdaily@aol.com. Until next time, I'm Brian Poppa Wolfe-Frawley, and I ask you to tell a few more friends about this little podcast. Thank you, and have a good night. (upbeat music) Thank you so much for watching. Please like, subscribe, comment, and share. It really does help us grow. (upbeat music) (gentle music)
