Gannon Buhr sets new PDGA rating record at 1063
Gannon Buhr just became the first PDGA player rated at 1063, one point above Paul McBeth’s old mark and 63 points past scratch-level play.
Gannon Buhr pushed the PDGA rating record to 1063 in the July 14 update, edging past Paul McBeth’s old high of 1062 and putting a new number on a season that has already turned into a runaway. At 21, the Urbandale, Iowa, star is not just winning more often. He is producing a rating line that now sits alone at the top of the sport’s performance ladder.
That matters because the PDGA’s scale is built around 1000 as scratch-level play. Buhr is not merely above that line; he is 63 points beyond it, which is the kind of gap that usually separates good professionals from a player operating in a different range entirely. His current PDGA profile lists 196 career events, 61 career wins and $685,489 in earnings, a résumé that now has the cleanest possible statistical headline attached to it: the highest rating the sport has seen.
The record did not arrive out of nowhere. Buhr won the 2026 PDGA European Open in Tallinn, Estonia, a result that gave him his fifth career PDGA Pro Major title, his fifth Tour victory of the season and his 24th career Tour win. The PDGA described the Tallinn week as history-setting, and the Disc Golf Pro Tour had already flagged the chase after his Heinola Open win, saying he was within striking distance of the all-time rating mark before the next update cleared the final step.
McBeth’s name still anchors the previous era. The PDGA lists him at 1046 in its April 14 update, and Ultiworld has noted that he first became the world’s top-rated player on January 21, 2014, before later setting the 1062 standard in 2020. He had already reset the ceiling once before, when his 1057 rating in July 2019 beat his own 1056 mark. Buhr has now moved the ceiling again, and the margin is tiny in absolute terms but enormous in what it signals: the sport’s best player is still finding room to go higher.
Buhr’s rise has also come with the kind of week-to-week consistency that makes records feel less accidental and more structural. The practical question now is not whether 1063 is a milestone. It is whether this is the start of a new standard for peak PDGA performance, with Buhr setting the pace for every elite event that follows.
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