Eveliina Salonen wins 2026 Ledgestone Open, strengthens late-season title push

Eveliina Salonen won the 2026 Ledgestone Open in Peoria, Illinois, and the result immediately sharpened the late-season FPO picture. At one of disc golf’s biggest stops, Salonen outlasted a leaderboard that included Holyn Handley, Henna Blomroos and Ohn Scoggins, turning a crowded finish into another statement win for her résumé.

Ledgestone is not a routine tour date. The event’s official site describes it as one of the largest tournaments on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, founded in 2011 by tournament director Nate Heinold and grown to host thousands of amateur and professional competitors. That scale is what gives the title so much weight: the tournament regularly brings the sport’s best men and women into the same pressure cooker, where late-round errors can reshape standings and rankings in a single weekend.

The live coverage kept Salonen in the front group late in the event, with Handley, Blomroos and Scoggins all part of the chase. That kind of tightly packed leaderboard is exactly why a Ledgestone win matters in the FPO race. The course asks for precision, and the margin for error narrows when the field is this deep. Salonen handled that stretch better than the rest, and the victory gives her another defining result at a time when the women’s division is still sorting out its top tier.

The win also extends a major-championship profile that already includes the 2024 PDGA Champions Cup and the 2024 PDGA Pro World Championship. Those victories made Salonen a proven threat on disc golf’s biggest stages, and Ledgestone adds another high-end marker to that record. In a season where every elite finish can affect points, confidence and the year-end conversation, winning one of the sport’s premier events does more than add hardware. It changes how the rest of the FPO field has to look at her heading into the final stretch.