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Steen Becomes First Norwegian DGPT Winner || Tournament Central on Disc Golf Network
Steen Becomes First Norwegian DGPT Winner: A Historic Moment in Disc Golf History Watch as Steen, the newly crowned Texas stage Champion, makes history by becoming the first Norwegian to win a Disc Golf Pro Tour event. In this exclusive interview, Steen reflects on his incredible journey, including his focus on gaining length and endurance throughout the off-season. Steen had a solid season in 2023, with notable finishes at Waco and other events, but it was clear that he was building momentum. This tournament marked a turning point for Steen, who credited his success to enjoying the experience after playing the major event preceding this one. With a mix of humility, determination, and physical preparation, Steen overcame initial doubts to achieve his dream victory in Houston, cementing his place in disc golf history as a trailblazer from Norway.
Watch Haakon Steen become Norway's first DGPT winner. He takes down top players in an epic battle of skill and strategy at this year's tournament.
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is our newly crowned Texas stage Champion for Foo Anakin stin Anakin first of all just a huge congratulations what an accomplishment first Norwegian the win a dis Golf Pro Tour event and of course your first win on the disc golf pro tour what are the initial reactions coming off the course oh um it's almost like I can't believe it myself right now it's just like it's almost like you feel it's a dream I think that's a yeah I think that's a fair way to assess it um I kind of want to rewind a little bit though if you don't mind before we talk about the win itself and that was that last year was really your first season where it felt like you had an extended stay over here in the US for the disc golf pro tour and you had a couple of pretty big finishes at Waco in particular you had a top five there and you had some other solid you know runs along the way but what do you think was your focus during this off season to really put yourself in contention for a big finish this season uh well what I have been Focus on this offseason is to gain more length in my drives and also focusing on getting the length especially for sidearm also um and yeah just also getting the getting in physical shape to actually have like endurance out there and yeah I I don't know it just it worked something worked this time yeah something worked this time indeed as you hold the trophy after this one as we did see earlier this year you had a couple of solid finishes but nothing near what you were able to do today how do you think you were able to step things up this weekend off the back of the major that you had just played um well as I did say before I come off the major feeling like a bit down after my last round there and I was like well I need to reset and this is my last tournament in the US for like this first trip MH and I thought like well I just need to make the best of it no matter what and I'm going to enjoy it and when I got here well it's my first year...
