Players and event coordinators for the 2025 US Women's Disc Golf Championship.
Tomorrow’s start of the 2025 United States Women’s Disc Golf Championship will have players competing from all over the world.
Some of those players attended a press conference hosted by the Disc Gold Pro Tour at the UW-Green Bay Manitowoc campus yesterday to talk about how they’re feeling before the first drive from the tee box.
Kristen Lätt from Estonia, who’s been one of the most dominant players since winning the championship in 2019, says the courses at Rolling Ridge and Silver Creek Park have been prepared differently than other places she’d played.
“I feel like they’re super wooded,” she stated. “Some of the greens are a little bit sketchy, I feel like you need to have some luck approaching the green. Some holes are very long, some are short. So, there’s a mixture of everything.”
Some players, including Silva Saarinen, said they don’t like how wooded the course is or where the holes are placed. But Wisconsin native Hailey King said this is real disc golf.
“You got to know where to put your disc and you have to be able to control it, so I think that’s maybe why it’s a little harder compared to what everyone’s used to,” she explained to the media.
Missy Gannon is looking to defend her championship win from last year.
She was asked about the 340-plus players coming to participate in the event, ranging from age eight to eighty.
“It’s a really nice way to get together with people either that you’ve met before or have heard of or are seeing coming up the ranks,” she described. “And so yeah I think that’s the biggest thing is just really seeing the impact of where our sport is going.”
Jim Van Lanen is the tournament director for the four-day disc golf tournament.
He says he had to get a bid to the Professional Disc Golf Association to come to Manitowoc.
He says it took more than saying that the city has good courses. It’s about things players can do outside of disc golf.
“We’ve got activities for the ladies,” he noted. “Ways for them to get together and make a community. And also to have awesome courses and we’ve gone above and beyond to make those good courses really good.”
Competition Director Phil Dillonè says that city staff and the over 140 volunteers have done a great job in preparing the event.
The professional players will start today and tomorrow at Rolling Ridge in Reedsville, while amateur players will tee off in Silver Creek Park.
The Women’s Disc Gold Championship goes through this Sunday (June 22nd). The public is invited to attend, but a pass is required to enter.
