Gannon Buhr wins European Open, completes career Grand Slam
Gannon Buhr closed the European Open by four strokes, turning his fifth major into a career Grand Slam and tightening the race to disc golf’s all-time standard.
Gannon Buhr did not just defend his status as disc golf’s top player. He turned the 2026 PDGA European Open into a statement round by round, finishing four strokes clear in Tallinn, Estonia, to capture his fifth major championship and complete a career Grand Slam.
The win came at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds in Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia, where the European Open ran June 18-21 as the second PDGA Pro Major of the year. Disc Golf Pro Tour coverage noted that the event returned to the same site that hosted the 2025 European Disc Golf Festival, and Buhr used the familiar setting to put another major on his growing resume. He entered the tournament as the world’s current No. 1 rated MPO player, the reigning 2025 World Champion and 2025 DGPT Player of the Year.
Buhr seized control immediately. PDGA live scoring had him leading after the opening round at 11-under, one stroke ahead of Ricky Wysocki at 10-under, with Estonian players Roland Kõur and Ville Kivisilla tied for third at 8-under. That early separation mattered. Once Buhr had the lead, the field spent the rest of the week trying to make up ground on a player who kept generating birdies and converting clutch putts when the tournament tightened.
The result added another line to a season that was already stacked. Before he reached Tallinn, Buhr had won The Memorial Championship, the Big Easy Open, the Queen City Classic, the Blue Ridge Championship, the Jonesboro Open, the Santa Cruz Masters Cup, the Discraft Cascade Challenge and the Northwest Championship, while also taking second at the PDGA Champions Cup. Few players have carried that level of consistency across so many stops, and even fewer have done it while facing the pressure that comes with being the clear target in every marquee field.
The historical weight is what makes this title different. Buhr won the 2022 United States Disc Golf Championship at 17, becoming the youngest winner in event history. He won the European Open by 2024 and the PDGA World Championships by 2025. Now he has a fifth major title, and that places him inside the sport’s all-time conversation with the game’s standard-bearers. UDisc’s majors history page lists Ken Climo at 18 MPO major titles and Paul McBeth at 17. Buhr is still a long way from those numbers, but at this pace he is not chasing history from the outside anymore. He is forcing the major landscape to make room for him.
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