Junior disc golf world championships to bring international field to Pittsburgh
A 572-player junior world championship will spread across five western Pennsylvania courses, with 1,773 invitations sent and 434 players already registered.
The 2026 PDGA Junior Disc Golf World Championships will send a 572-player field across five western Pennsylvania courses, with about 434 players already registered after 1,773 invitations were awarded. Hosted by Pittsburgh Flying Disc and presented by UPMC, the PDGA Major is scheduled for July 7-11 in Pittsburgh, with official practice beginning July 3.
The entry list is built from the 2025 PDGA season. The PDGA’s invitation criteria limit the championship to Amateur-class members who are ages 8-18 in 2026 and who met the 2025 membership requirements, making the event a direct reward for results already posted on the junior circuit. That structure is one reason the field carries international weight: the championship will bring young athletes from outside the U.S. into a format that ties elite junior competition to a single, season-long qualification path.
The tournament will rotate through Knob Hill Park in Warrendale, Moraine State Park in Portersville, North Boundary Park in Cranberry Township, Deer Lakes Park in Tarentum and Brush Creek Park in Fombell. Five courses in five communities give the event the feel of a regional tour, not a one-site showcase, and the host group says that western Pennsylvania’s course quality and local amenities helped make the area the right fit.
Pittsburgh Flying Disc has framed the championship as a chance to show western Pennsylvania to the world, and the field size backs that up. A junior event that draws 1,773 invitations and nearly 434 confirmed players is no longer just a local celebration of youth disc golf. It is a pipeline event, one that sends the sport’s best teenagers through a major championship in a region now tasked with hosting a field large enough to reflect disc golf’s broader international reach.
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