Trek Disc Golf

The 2024 Ledgestone Open presented by Discraft is starting today, Thursday, August 1st and will end on Sunday, August 4th. Notably, the tournament will not include Northwood Park as that was the location for Champions Cup earlier this year. In addition, this is a DGPT Elite+ event, so the points will count more towards the standings. For the FPO field, they will be playing all four rounds at Sunset Hills and the MPO will field will be at Eureka Lake. All of the coverage will be on DGN and next day coverage will be on JomezPro.

Honestly, I don’t remember much about Sunset Hills other than listening to others review the course. What I love about it is how it is tailored to the FPO field, rather than forcing courses to adjust for the FPO division. I think more courses need this design, at least on tour. On the MPO side, I know that without Northwood Black, the scoring will be up, but I love watching Eureka. It is one of those tournaments I remember seeing when I first started watching disc golf, so it really is just a joy to watch.

In 2023, Missy Gannon and Cole Redalen won this tournament in their respective fields. Missy won be four strokes after shooting two 1000 rated rounds to finish off the tournament. Missy was 79% in C2 in regulation, good for 15% above the rest of the field. Combined with second in strokes gained from tee to green and her strong putting, Missy was poised for the victory. Cole, won by five strokes, led the field in strokes gained tee to green, C1 in regulation, and C2 in regulation. And when that combination is in play, unless you cannot putt, you are going to win and that is what Cole did.

As for picks, I believe that Missy will run this one back, especially given Kristin and other European players are not playing. In second, I’ll take Holyn Handley, with taking the European swing off, she will be ready to go. And finally, I’ll take Ella to repeat her success from last year. Hopefully, she can fix her putting to get back on track.

On the MPO side, I am going to take Calvin to win it all. I think Calvin had a weird time going back and forth from Europe, but now that he is in the US and settled, I see him winning this event. In second, I’ll take Gannon Buhr, and in third, Ezra Robinson. Enjoy Peoria and Ledgestone! Let it rip!