PDGA world rankings stay tight as Buhr and Saarinen hold top spots
Buhr and Saarinen stayed No. 1, but McMahon’s rise and the Borås stop kept both divisions from settling into place.
Gannon Buhr and Silva Saarinen stayed atop the PDGA world rankings on June 24, but the rest of both leaderboards remained packed tightly enough to keep the title picture live in MPO and FPO. Richard Wysocki, Calvin Heimburg, Niklas Anttila and Isaac Robinson held the next four spots in MPO, while Holyn Handley, Eveliina Salonen, Ohn Scoggins and Missy Gannon stayed clustered behind Saarinen in FPO.
Buhr’s grip on No. 1 carried added weight because his PDGA player page listed a 1062 rating, 194 career events, 60 career wins and $675,952 in career earnings. The PDGA’s rankings are built from the previous 104 weeks of results, with recent performances weighted more heavily, and the current system was introduced in the 2024 relaunch with Mark Broadie and Dylan Bierne of SportEdge. Higher-tier events sit at the top of the scale, with PDGA Majors carrying the most value, and rankings updates are published each Wednesday after an Elite event or PDGA Major.
The movement deeper in the list showed how quickly the season can still change the conversation. Eagle McMahon climbed three more spots to No. 17 in MPO, a jump that signals momentum even when the top five does not budge. StatMando’s MPO tracker matched the PDGA order at the top, with Buhr first, Wysocki second, Heimburg third, Robinson fourth and Anttila fifth, reinforcing that the race at No. 1 is being defined by sustained form rather than a one-week spike. In FPO, Saarinen’s rise to the top came alongside upward movement for Iida Lehtimäki, Emily Weatherman, Sintija Klezberga, Heidi Laine, Julia Fors and Kristýna Jurčíková, a reminder that the chase for major positioning is widening beyond the familiar names.
The next counting event was the DGPT Swedish Open in Borås, Sweden, a June 26-28 Elite Series stop at Ymergårdens Discgolfcenter that returned to the venue for the fifth time. The course’s wooded fairways, open shots, elevation changes and the famous 718-foot downhill fifth hole made it a severe enough test to matter immediately in the rankings race. For now, Buhr and Saarinen held the top line, but the field behind them remained close enough that one strong week in Europe could reshape the order fast.
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