Estonia's Tarmo Tomson logs 2,700 baskets in 24-hour disc golf feat

Tarmo Tomson turned a charity day into a brutal endurance loop in Estonia, grinding through 300 laps on a nine-hole putting course at Coolbet Järve Discgolfipark and finishing with an ace on his final shot. In 24 hours, he logged 2,700 baskets, walked 66.82 kilometers, took 116,487 steps and threw 4,497 times, the kind of workload that makes a normal marathon-round idea look almost soft.

Tomson’s effort sat inside Throw For More, the global one-day fundraiser built by the Paul McBeth Foundation and UDisc. UDisc pledged 10 cents for every round recorded in its app on the event day, and the 2025 edition drew roughly 84,000 participants across more than 8,500 courses worldwide, with the foundation saying the campaign brought in more than $70,000. By the end of the day, the global total had reached 122,790 rounds, putting the event within about 1,500 rounds of UDisc’s single-day record of 124,425.

The scale matters because Tomson did not just stack rounds, he stacked them in the most efficient way possible once the fundraising mechanics changed. After learning how the per-round support worked and that Paul McBeth had added support of his own, Tomson abandoned a traditional marathon-round plan and chose the nine-hole putting course in Tallinn’s Coolbet Järve Discgolfipark. The math was relentless: 300 laps, 24 hours, and barely a pause in the forest dark as he kept moving. He was already on schedule at the 15-hour mark, and by the end of the night he had just six laps left.

His wife, Ülle, walked beside him with a flashlight for the final stretch, a small detail that captures what these fundraiser feats really are: not only athletic output, but shared labor. Tomson’s final ace gave the day a clean ending, but the bigger point was what his grind represented for a campaign aimed at expanding access to disc golf beyond the sport’s usual hot spots.

Throw For More was first launched for Saturday, September 20, 2025, and the foundation later announced it would return on Saturday, June 20, 2026. PMF said the 2025 fundraiser helped install a course in Rwanda and support the first African Disc Golf Summit, while UDisc said 2026 projects included the first permanent course in the Dominican Republic and planned builds in Jamaica. The message behind Tomson’s day was simple enough to see in the numbers: one player, one course, 2,700 baskets, and a global fundraiser that kept finding new ways to turn effort into access.