Saarinen holds FPO No. 1 as top rankings stay tightly packed
Saarinen led with 104.9 points, but Handley, Scoggins, Gannon and Lätt were all within 37.5 points of the top.
Silva Saarinen sat alone at No. 1 in the FPO world rankings on June 10, but the margin behind her told a much less settled story. Her 104.9 average points put her ahead of Holyn Handley at 81.0, Ohn Scoggins at 76.1, Missy Gannon at 74.0 and Kristin Lätt at 67.4, a top-five spread of just 37.5 points in a division where one hot weekend can still reorder everything.
That is the key to reading this ranking sheet: Saarinen has the top line, not a chokehold. The gap from first to second was 23.9 points, and the gap from first to sixth, with Eveliina Salonen at 63.6, was only 41.3. In a sport where elite finishes come in small bursts and the PDGA weights the most recent results more heavily across the previous 104 weeks, that is not much separation at all. It is the difference between a player defending No. 1 and a player spending one major stretch trying to keep her footing.
The board stayed international at the sharp end. Saarinen, Lätt, Salonen and Henna Blomroos kept Europe heavily represented near the top, while Handley, Scoggins, Gannon, Ella Hansen and Valerie Mandujano gave the American side just as much firepower. Cadence Burge rounded out the top ten, and deeper in the rankings, Iida Lehtomäki checked in at 19th and Rebecca Don at 20th, another sign that the chase pack is crowded enough to make every Elite Series stop matter.
The PDGA’s structure explains why the race feels so volatile. Only Elite Series and PDGA Major results count in the relaunched rankings, and updates are expected each Wednesday after one of those events. The next event to count from the June 10 list was the PDGA European Open in Tallinn, Estonia, a June 18-21 Major with 45 FPO players and a $34,755 purse. Eveliina Salonen won that division, exactly the kind of major result that can tighten the picture even further.
The contrast with 2024 is hard to miss. Kristin Tattar led the FPO rankings with 159.7 average points on July 31, then still held No. 1 with 156.3 on September 25. Saarinen’s 104.9 is a far smaller top mark, which says less about her grip on the spot than it does about how compressed the current field is. Saarinen is No. 1 for now, but the rankings behind her are close enough that the next strong run could make the top of FPO look different in a hurry.
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