Tallinn debut boosts European Open as disc golf’s marquee major

Gannon Buhr turned Tallinn’s European Open debut into a runaway showcase, finishing at 216 under par and beating Richard Wysocki by four strokes at the Song Festival Grounds. The 2026 event ran June 18-21 on the Rockstar course, and Buhr’s win gave the tournament the kind of front-end certainty that let the rest of the week play out against a packed major-stage backdrop.

The move to Tallinn mattered because the event finally stepped outside Finland for the first time and opened the door to a rotating PDGA Major model across Europe. The field totaled 157 players with a $121,270 purse, while the 2025 Tallinn European Disc Golf Festival drew 156 players and a combined purse of $134,055. The scale was close, but the setting was not: Song Festival Grounds gave the tournament a bigger, louder frame, and the European Open looked less like a stop on the calendar than a statement about where the sport is headed.

Buhr set the tone immediately. His opening round was 11-under and included a perfect 15-for-15 effort inside Circle 1, the kind of clean start that makes a lead feel permanent. He carried a nine-stroke cushion into Championship Sunday before closing out the title by four, collecting $16,000 for the win. The victory was his fifth career PDGA Pro Major title, his fifth Tour victory of 2026, and his 24th career Tour win, with the updated PDGA player page listing the European Open among his season victories.

The numbers also told the story of the course itself. The Rockstar layout at Tallinn Song Festival Grounds played as par 63 for both the Day 1/2 and Day 3/4 setups, and the week produced multiple aces, including Keiti Tätte, Roland Kõur, Joona Heinänen and Cole Redalan. Roland Kõur’s ace on hole 15 and the Day 3/4 hole 7 aces from Heinänen and Redalan were the kinds of moments that gave the major its extra edge, even as Buhr’s control at the top left little doubt about the MPO result.

On the FPO side, Eveliina Salonen made the week even more consequential. She won by four strokes, finished at 21-under, and posted a 1031-rated final round to complete the career grand slam of PDGA Majors. Julia Fors took second and Kristýna Jurčíková finished third, giving the podium a distinctly European look, while Fors’s PDGA profile listed the 14-year-old from Kungsbacka, Sweden, at a 951 rating with 28 career wins. Tallinn did not just host another European Open; it produced a majors week that felt larger, sharper and more central to the sport’s continental growth.