Tim Selinske Masters returns to Florida with 500-player field

Florida finally has a major back, and the 2026 Tim Selinske U.S. Masters Disc Golf Championships gave the state a stage it had been missing for years. More than 500 players filled Lake County for the four-round PDGA Major, a turnout that underscored how big the masters game has become and how much weight Florida still carries in disc golf.

The event marked the first Major in the Sunshine State since the 2021 PDGA Amateur World Championships and the first Major with professional fields in Florida since The Players Cup in 2008. That gap mattered. Florida has long been one of the sport’s important proving grounds, but major hosting had drifted away until this week’s return restored some of that profile. The question now is whether this was the start of a renewed run or a one-off nod to the state’s legacy.

The scale backed up the billing. Twenty-six divisions were contested across Champions Pointe, Masters Pointe, Lake Hawk and Green Gauntlet, turning the week into something closer to a championship festival than a single-division stop. The field stretched from MP80 down to MP40 on the men’s side and from FP40 through the older age divisions on the women’s side, giving the Selinske the broadest kind of masters test: age, stamina and precision all on the line at once.

The names at the top of the field fit that theme. Nate Sexton entered as the defending MP40 champion, Jennifer Allen returned to defend the FP40 title and Sarah Hokom made her Selinske debut, adding another familiar veteran to a field built around long careers and sharp late-round decisions. In masters disc golf, the draw is rarely just raw power. It is the players who keep their form, manage their lines and survive the final stretch that usually decide these majors.

The tournament’s later results matched that setup. Some divisions produced dominant wins, others crowned first-time Major champions and several came down to the final putt. That kind of spread is what makes the Selinske different from a standard event. The margins can be small, but the pressure stays high across every age group.

Florida got the kind of event that reminds the sport why the state once mattered so much. Whether Lake County becomes a regular major stop or stands as a salute to history, this field made one thing clear: masters disc golf still has enough depth, and Florida still has enough pull, to matter at the top end.