Chris Dickerson runs away with Tennessee State Disc Golf title

Chris Dickerson did not just win in Morristown, he turned Tennessee’s marquee A-tier into a separation exercise. Over three days at the 2026 Discraft Presents Tennessee State Disc Golf Championships, Dickerson posted a 158 total, 42-under-par, and left the rest of the MPO field chasing a margin that kept growing instead of shrinking.

The unofficial leaderboard showed Anthony Anselmo finishing second at 165, Aidan Scott third at 166, and Sawyer Barlow and Danny Beauchamp tied for fourth at 167. That seven-shot cushion mattered because the championship drew 83 MPO players and carried an $11,760 MPO purse, making the gap at the top even more telling. Dickerson was not winning a two-man race or surviving a soft finish. He separated from a field that already had serious depth behind him.

The depth showed up just below the podium as well. Kyle Sennett and Ethan Bishop tied for seventh at 169, and the next cluster extended to players at 172 and 173. The top 10 kept stretching down through scores of 175, 177, 179 and 180, a spread that underscored how quickly the leaderboard could open up when the course asked for precision over multiple rounds. Dickerson’s 158 stood out not only because it was low, but because so few others were able to stay within striking distance as the rounds accumulated.

That was part of what made Morristown such a useful benchmark. The championship was played across six locations, with Cherokee Park, Frank Lorino Park, Panther Creek State Park and Morristown Kiwanis DGC among the highlighted courses. That kind of rotation forces players to solve different scoring problems in the same weekend, and it rewards the golfer who can handle distance, control and recovery without letting one bad stretch wreck the week. The setup helped explain why the event felt less like a simple title chase and more like a test ahead of bigger regional and national stops.

With official ratings still pending, the picture was already clear from the unofficial results. Dickerson was the class of the MPO field in Morristown, and the rest of the leaderboard spent the weekend proving how hard it was to keep pace.