Ledgestone Open brings pros, fan events and big prizes to Peoria
Discraft drops, a $10K-plus ace challenge and pro meet-and-greets headlined Ledgestone’s fan push in Peoria. Valerie Mandujano won the FPO title in a three-hole playoff.
Ledgestone put the fan experience front and center in Peoria, with exclusive Discraft drops, a $10,000-plus ace challenge and chances to meet, greet and play with pros built into the 2025 stop. The Disc Golf Pro Tour called it a mega-event and the final stretch of the season, and the tournament delivered on the promise of making a tour week feel bigger than a standard stop.
The event’s schedule started before the main championship weekend. Ledgestone’s 2025 calendar listed a Flex C Tier at Brady Park in East Peoria on Friday, July 26, then a Flex C Tier at Megiddo DGC at Westwood Park on Saturday, July 27. That same day, a Lake Eureka Preview Event ran from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., giving fans an early look at the action before the main fields teed off. Tickets for the 2025 event were sold through Eventbrite, and DGPT also pushed a pre-event press conference video ahead of tournament play.
The tournament spread across several Central Illinois venues, including Eureka Temp, Northwood Black Shorts, Northwood Black Long, Sunset Hills, Northwood Blue, Three Sisters and Bradley. Ledgestone said schedules were subject to change, but the footprint showed how much ground the event covered as it pulled players and fans across the region. Ledgestone says Nate Heinold founded the event in 2011, and it has since grown into one of the largest stops on the tour, with thousands of amateur and professional competitors.
On the course, the biggest title drama came in the FPO division, where Valerie Mandujano won after a three-hole playoff. DGPT said the 2025 event carried a total purse of more than $250,000, with first-place prizes of $30,000 for both the FPO and MPO fields. That payout matched the scale of the week, where the competition was paired with the kind of side attractions that keep fans lingering between rounds instead of just checking scores from home.
The event also produced another notable result beyond the podium. Ledgestone’s around-the-web roundup noted that Gracen Lomelino ended his amateur career at the tournament and finished second overall in August 2025, a coda that fit the event’s blend of elite stakes and developmental opportunities. DGPT’s own schedule pages listed the main 2025 championship dates as Aug. 14-17, underscoring how Ledgestone’s fan events and lead-in rounds set up a long, layered tournament window in Peoria.
This article was produced by Prism’s automated news system from verified source data, official records, and press releases, then run through automated quality and moderation checks before publishing. The system is built and supervised by the people who set the standards it runs under. Read our full AI policy.
Did this article answer your question?
