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The PDGA Disc Golf World Championships is one of four major championships in the sport of disc golf, along with the United States Disc Golf Championship, the European Open, and the PDGA Champions Cup. Held annually since 1982, the event crowns world champions in several divisions in the professional disc golf fields.
Before the start of the Official World Golf Ranking in 1986, unofficial end of year world golf rankings were published by Mark McCormack in his World of Professional Golf annual from 1968 to 1985. McCormack's rankings listed Jack Nicklaus as the number one from 1968 to 1977, Tom Watson from 1978 to 1982 and Seve Ballesteros from 1983 to 1985.
He won his first PDGA A-Tier tournament in 2018 at the Hickory Hills Open, and he is the 2020 Michigan State Disc Golf Champion. [1] He has won 45 tournaments and amassed $66,165 in career earnings. [2] [3] As of August 2021, Marwede ranks eleventh in UDisc's Disc Golf World Rankings. [4]
The initiative for the creation of the Official World Golf Ranking came from the Championship Committee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, which found in the 1980s that its system of issuing invitations to The Open Championship on a tour by tour basis was omitting an increasing number of top players because more of them were dividing their time between tours, and from preeminent ...
Geisinger was the 19th ranked player in the PDGA World Rankings at the end of 2016. Geisinger turned pro in 2012. His career earnings are $45,299.00 (as of April 2022). [1] His sponsors include Innova Discs, Airborn Disc Golf, Delta Cart, Sportsack, Teeboxx, Upper Park Designs, VisionQuest, and Marty Chiropractic & Wellness. [2]
McMahon began playing disc golf in 2007, when he was nine years old, when he looked for a summer activity and soon started competing in smaller tournaments. [3] His first victory in a PDGA-sanctioned event came in 2009 when he won the Johnny Roberts Memorial competing in the Junior II Boys class, later going on to win tournaments in both the intermediate and advanced classes.
He is a 2-time PDGA World Champion and, as of July 2024, was the third highest rated player in the world. [4] On January 4, 2022, Wysocki signed a 4-year/$4 million contract with Dynamic Discs. Wysocki's contract pays him a base salary of $1 million a year with potential to reach $2 million per year depending on the amount of discs Dynamic ...
Nikko Locastro (born September 16, 1988) is a professional disc golf player from St. Louis, Missouri.He has been playing the sport professionally since 2006. As of May 2023, Locastro was ranked 54th in the world, and had the 40th highest rating at 1027.