2026 European Open brings disc golf’s elite to Tallinn for the first time

Tallinn’s Song Festival Grounds give disc golf’s European Open a different kind of weight: a first-time host, a national landmark and a stadium-sized stage for the sport’s biggest continental title. The 2026 PDGA European Open runs June 18-21 in Tallinn, Harjumaa, with Tarmo Laiksoo directing the event, and it lands as Europe’s only PDGA Major in 2026. The festival week already started June 16 with the first Presidents Cup ever held in Estonia, setting up a rare run of elite competition in one place.

The move to the Rockstar course matters because the site is built for contrast. Open fairways, wooded sections, elevation changes and strategic obstacles make it one of the most distinctive settings in pro disc golf, while the 2025 European Disc Golf Festival showed what the venue can do when packed grandstands and giant screens turn a round into a spectacle. That combination should reward players who can shape shots on command and adapt fast, because no one arrives with years of course history to lean on.

Silva Saarinen enters as the FPO standard-bearer after winning Estonia’s first PDGA Major at the 2025 European Disc Golf Festival and then taking the 2026 Northwest Championship at 34-under. Kristin Lätt gives the home crowd its clearest local star, with the Estonian two-time world champion still the highest-rated female player of all time and one of the sport’s defining names on this stage.

The MPO race again points to Calvin Heimburg and Gannon Buhr. Heimburg returns as the defending European Open champion after his 2025 win at the European Disc Golf Festival, where he posted an 1085-rated performance, beat Buhr by one stroke and closed it out with a putt on hole 18. Buhr arrives with the sharper recent form, fresh off a 32-under Northwest Championship victory that gave him a fourth win of the season and a 474-point lead in the DGPT standings.

The event’s scale has been building toward this shift for years. The 2024 European Open became the first edition played on two courses and the first PDGA Major at the Tampere Disc Golf Center, drawing 122 players from 15 nationalities with a $102,437 purse. Tallinn now inherits that momentum, and the European Open’s new home gives the major a sharper identity: part championship test, part festival, and part showcase for where elite disc golf in Europe is headed next.

Fans can follow the first hour of coverage free on DGPT YouTube, see round 1 on DGN Free and DGN Standard, and watch the full tournament live on DGN Pro, with next-day MPO and FPO coverage on JomezPro. Live coverage also airs on TV6 and Delfi in Estonia, giving the Tallinn stop the kind of reach that matches its biggest setting yet.