Noah Feil holds four-shot lead at U.S. Amateur Disc Golf Championship

Noah Feil kept the U.S. Amateur Disc Golf Championship in his hands and the rest of the field in chase mode. After an opening bogey-free 8-under round and a 4-under second round at Toboggan, the Mokena, Illinois amateur reached Championship Sunday with a four-shot lead and only two bogeys through 36 holes, the fewest in the 148-player field by a wide margin.

That cushion was built on the kind of scoring that wins majors on Toboggan: clean drives, controlled misses and a finishing kick when the course was at its meanest. Feil closed Saturday with a circle-two birdie on the 18th, a hole that sat in the toughest stretch of the day as wind and heat made scoring harder than it had been in Friday’s opener. Where others leaked strokes, Feil kept the card moving in the right direction.

The chase pack, by contrast, kept shifting. Bryce Brinson moved into solo second after a 5-under round, while Jackson Yoder climbed eight spots into a share of the lead-card picture with his own 5-under effort. Adam Monn and Gavin Bednar sat tied at 6-under, six strokes behind Feil but still close enough to force him to keep playing clean. One of the day’s biggest moves came from Ashton Good, who shot the round of the day at 6-under and jumped 46 spots into solo ninth.

The volatility did not stop there. Henry Schlabach and Kadin Kauffman each climbed 17 places, Schlabach into a share of seventh and Kauffman into T23, a reminder of how quickly Toboggan can flip a leaderboard when one player strings together a few birdies and another finds trouble. The setup left the tournament with a simple final-day question: can anyone make enough move to catch Feil, or has he already done the hardest part by avoiding the big mistake?

The championship itself carries extra weight this summer. The 2026 USADGC, the 24th running of the event since Scott Burnett won the first title in 2002, is being played June 5-7 in Milford, Michigan and is hosted by Ledgestone. The Toboggan course at Kensington Metropark, designed by Discraft owner Jim Kenner for the 2000 Discraft PDGA Pro/Am World Championships, will also host the 2026 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships in August, giving this amateur major an early look at a venue built to test elite nerves. Official practice days ran June 2-4, with a player dinner and mandatory meeting at Kensington Mills Falls before play and a Saturday pizza party and ace competition at the Toboggan Pavilion adding to the championship-week atmosphere.