Climate Best Open returns to Emerald Hills for first disc golf event since 2023
Emerald Hills will host 72 players on Aug. 22, bringing sanctioned disc golf back for the first time since 2023 and giving Peninsula players a long-awaited home event.
Peninsula disc golfers are getting a sanctioned tournament back at Emerald Hills Golf Course when the Peninsula Disc Golf Club stages the 2026 Climate Best Open on Saturday, Aug. 22. The one-day, two-round event will draw 72 players across professional, amateur, women’s and junior divisions, and registration opened July 12 through Disc Golf Scene.
The return restores a competition date to a course that has stayed busy even without a sanctioned tournament on the calendar. PDGC president and CEO Michael Regula said the club has run a year-round league at Emerald Hills since the Redwood City Elks installed a permanent course at their lodge in 2015, and he said local players have been asking for a tournament return since the last sanctioned event at the venue in 2023.
Emerald Hills is built for that kind of comeback. The Redwood City property is described as a 30-acre, par-3, 9-hole course with a dedicated disc golf layout, and course directories call the disc golf side hilly and scenic, with two 9-hole loops sharing fairways with the ball golf course. The course and the Redwood City Elks Lodge 1991 say disc golf has been part of the site for years, and the lodge notes that the sport has become one of the fastest-growing in the area, with league and tournament events spread around the Bay Area.
For PDGC, the Open lands at a useful moment in the club’s calendar. The club said the tournament also celebrates its recognition as a nonprofit organization in May, giving the event extra weight beyond the scorecards and divisions. With a full field, a familiar venue and a sanctioned format back in place, the Climate Best Open gives Peninsula players a local test at a course that has been missing from the tournament circuit since the 2023 Spirit of Emerald Hills II.
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