Nate Toutolmin wins Stampede 2026 with 23-under finish in Truckee
Toutolmin’s 43 in round two sealed a 23-under win in a 185-player B-tier, where the MPO chase was already stretched thin.
Nate Toutolmin turned The Stampede 2026 into a two-round separation act, firing a 92 total for 23-under and winning the Truckee B-tier against a 185-player field with a $7,038 pro purse. In a weekend where every stroke mattered, he made the event feel decided by Sunday’s finish, not by attrition.
The win came over a compact 36 holes, and Toutolmin did the damage early and finished harder. He opened with a 49 and then dropped a 43 in round two, a closing number that left little room for anyone else to mount a realistic charge. Guy Melms finished second at 96, Alex Kalange was third at 97 and Peter Kean placed fourth at 98, a spread that showed how quickly the MPO race thinned once Toutolmin separated at the top.
That gap matters because The Stampede was not a soft stop. The PDGA listed 185 total players, and the purse size made this more than a routine weekend check-in for the region. The event was held June 20-21 at Stampede Disc Golf Course, with Kristine King-Smith as tournament director and Serenity Madison as assistant tournament director. PDGA said the event report had been received, but official ratings were still pending when the standings were posted, so the numbers on the board were the live table rather than a fully ratified final release.
Toutolmin’s result also lands with some context. He had finished second at The Stampede in 2025 behind Will Ling, and the same Truckee stop drew 159 players and a $3,800 pro purse last year. This year’s larger field and bigger payout made the step up tangible, and Toutolmin answered by improving on a course where the winning line rewarded clean, low-error golf over two rounds.
The rest of the leaderboard backed up the scoring conditions. Jessica Erickson won FPO at 116, five under par, ahead of Angelica Sanchez at 119, Rubi Benitez at 127 and Jesse Powell at 144. Jeff Faes topped MP40 at 98, 17-under, another sign that the Stampede layout gave up low numbers to players who kept pressure off the card.
The course itself is an 18-hole permanent layout on U.S. Forest Service property at Stampede Reservoir, established in 2018 and built with three pin placements per hole. PDGA lists it at 5,050 feet for the pins layout, 5,683 feet for the B pins and 6,155 feet for the C pins, a range that helps explain why the event kept producing birdie totals for players who stayed clean. Disc Golf Scene also placed the tournament in the 2026 Sierra Tahoe Series and listed Team KK Events as host, with a players’ party at Logger Campground, plus a mini golf course, putting challenge and glow event.
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