Pärnu Open launches expanded 2026 DGPT EuroTour in Estonia
Pärnu Open opens the first eight-stop EuroTour in Estonia, with Jõulumäe’s custom par 64 layout and a single European points race setting the early tone.
The 2026 DGPT EuroTour opened in Estonia with the inaugural Pärnu Open, and the event immediately mattered as more than a fresh name on the calendar. It was the first of eight stops across five countries, with every result feeding into a single European points standings race that will shape the rest of the season.
At Jõulumäe Recreational Sports Centre in Pärnumaa, the tournament arrived with real competitive weight. The MPO field played a par 64 layout measuring 2,706 meters, while the FPO field faced a par 64 layout at 2,292 meters, a setup that signaled shot-making and control rather than pure distance. The event ran June 12-14 as a PDGA A-Tier, with Silver Lätt listed as tournament director.
The venue gave the debut a deeper sense of place. Jõulumäe Disc Golf Park is described by the PDGA as Estonia’s first permanent disc golf course, and the same directory notes that it was expanded to 27 holes in 2015. UDisc lists it as a 45-hole course and says it is free to play, while also ranking it as the top course in Estonia. That combination made Jõulumäe a fitting stage for a tour opener meant to show what the European swing can become.
The layout itself was shaped by local expertise, with Kristin Lätt and Silver Lätt designing the custom competition configuration. That detail mattered because the Pärnu Open was built to feel distinctly Estonian even as it launched a broader DGPT Europe product aimed at linking Estonia, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic and Poland under one points system. In January, the Disc Golf Pro Tour added four new European tournaments to fill out the eight-event slate, expanding the reach and the stakes of the continent-wide schedule.
The timing sharpened the pressure. DGPT’s next stop after Pärnu was already set as the 2026 European Open in Tallinn, June 18-21, giving the field almost no breathing room before the season’s biggest European checkpoint. Estonia’s own depth only heightens the backdrop: UDisc says the country has 227 courses and ranks it as the world’s seventh-best disc golf nation, which helps explain why a new EuroTour opener here feels like a marker for where the sport is headed.
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