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This Week in Disc Golf | October 4, 2022
Catch up on the latest news from the world of disc golf in this week's episode. The Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship has broken a major record, setting a new high for the largest purse ever at a disc golf tournament - $302,000. This milestone is made possible by the partnership with Barbasol, which is helping to subsidize the huge payout. Not only will the MPO and FPO winners take home $35,000 each, but even second-place finishers can expect a significant share of the prize money. The Disc Golf Pro Tour's executive team has also announced their 2023 season schedule, which includes most of the Elite Series and major events, as well as many of the Silver Series tournaments. Charlie Eisenhood shares his insights and analysis on these developments and more in this week's episode of "This Week in Disc Golf".
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foreign welcome to another edition of this week in disc golf it's Tuesday October 4th I'm Charlie eisenhood let's talk about what happened this week well breaking news coming out today the Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship is going to set a new record for the largest ever purse at a disc golf tournament it breaks the 2021 record that was set by the Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship of 250 000 this year it will be 302 thousand dollars with thirty five thousand dollars going to both the mpo and fpo winners that makes it the most ever that a player will win for winning a disc golf tournament the tournament's presenting sponsor this year is barbasol the over 100 year old shaving company and they are helping subsidize a huge 300 plus thousand dollar payout 20 grand goes to Second Place fourteen thousand dollars to third nine thousand dollars a fourth that's more than a lot of winners made this year and even if you just get knocked out in round one you're still taking home twenty five hundred dollars in NPO and three thousand dollars in FPL barbasol vice president of marketing Tim McNamara said in a statement quote the disc golf pro tour fits right into our strategy of targeting active people on the go disc golfs explosive growth and Broad participation makes it an attractive partnership where we can connect with this passionate fan base the Pro Tour Championship continues to raise the bar for the biggest payouts in disc golf no other tournament has yet cracked the two hundred thousand dollar Mark besides this year's World Championships now the three hundred thousand dollar Mark has been breached by this year's TOUR Championship we'll see what's to come in the future speaking of the future the 2023 season schedule for the disc golf pro tour is now out we know broadly the events we will have next year including all of the Elite Series and major events as well as most of the silver series although the pro tour says that some silver series are still set to be added the tour begins at the all-star weekend and exhibition event in Tucson Arizona and the season kicks off again at the Las Vegas challenge in Nevada February 23rd to 26th we'll head over to the Texas swing and then out east the Music City open...
