Buhr ties course record, leads European Open by nine strokes
Buhr matched the course record with a -12 and opened a nine-shot gap, turning Championship Sunday in Tallinn into a test of history.
Gannon Buhr did not just take the lead at the European Open, he buried it. The reigning champion tied the course record with a 12-under-par 3rd round and stretched his advantage to nine shots heading into Championship Sunday, turning a major into a chase that already looks close to over.
PDGA live scoring had Buhr at 30-under through three rounds at the 2026 PDGA European Open in Tallinn, Estonia, with Calvin Heimburg and Richard Wysocki tied for second at 19-under and Teemu Lampainen alone in fourth at 18-under. The event runs June 18-21 at the Song Festival Grounds, a new host site as the European Open shifts away from its longtime Finland home and into a new era in Estonia.
That margin changes the conversation. Elite disc golf majors are usually tight enough that a final round can flip everything with one bad tree kick or one missed circle putt. This one would need a collapse from Buhr and a near-perfect charge from the field to become interesting again. Heimburg and Wysocki are the only players within double digits of the lead, and they sit 11 back. Lampainen is 12 back. That is not pressure, that is a mathematical long shot.
Buhr’s round was not an outlier in the sense that it came from nowhere. The European Open history page says he had already set a 9-under course record at the Monster course, and the event’s 2024 recap framed his Round 3 surge there as a momentum swing. This time, he made the number even smaller. For a player already defending European Open champion and carrying a 1062 rating, 59 career wins and $657,902 in earnings, the question is no longer whether he belongs on top. It is whether anyone in the field can force him to prove it.
The broader card still has names, but the path to real pressure is narrow. Heimburg and Wysocki have the pedigree to make Buhr work, and Lampainen is close enough to benefit if the leader cools off. But Buhr has turned the final round into something more like a coronation than a duel. If he closes it out, it will read less like a hot week and more like a statement about where the top of men’s disc golf stands right now.
The FPO side stayed competitive, with Kristýna Jurčíková and Eveliina Salonen tied at 12-under after Round 3, but in MPO the story was Buhr alone, nine clear and one round from finishing the job.
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