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Väinö Mäkelä Is Not Happy With The PDGA
Väinö Mäkelä is not happy with the PDGA's decision to reschedule the Champions Cup to an earlier date in the season. The disc golf star joins Tour Life to discuss his concerns and share his thoughts on how this change may impact European players and the sport as a whole. Väinö shares his perspective on the potential bias towards US-based players and the importance of expanding disc golf globally. He also expresses his hope that this scheduling change will boost the European disc golf community, allowing top players from across the continent to compete in multiple events. With a unique insight into the sport, Väinö Mäkelä joins the conversation to offer his perspective on the PDGA's decision and its potential implications for the future of disc golf.
Watch disc golf pro Väinö Mäkelä express his frustration with the PDGA in a heated discussion about rules and player rights.
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all right we are joined now with Vino Vino thanks so much for joining us here on tour life I really appreciate you taking the time uh how's it going over there so far it's it's going pretty good uh I have uh started my offseason training and things are going pretty pretty solid down I'm enjoying I'm enjoying the offseason pretty much nice very well yeah it's starting to get a little chilly here in Vegas on our side um but the off season is in full swing so I wanted to get you come on here because Champions Cup the PD GGA just announced that they are going to be rescheduling to a earlier date in the season and just to kind of preface everything I do want to say there is sometimes a little bit of a bias I feel like being in the United States we focus a lot on what we're doing over here and we focus a lot on the players over here and I think sometimes we forget how popular disc golf is in Europe and how popular some of the top players in Europe are is this something that the PDGA kind of had a miss a misstep did they just not plan accordingly and explain to me why um if that is the case what is going on as far as European players go with the change in the scheduling of Champions Cup yeah so I'm not even sure what the bdga think about the with the new dates and and that stuff and yeah that might be the case that PDC are thinking that USA is like more important because of course you have more players you have like more courses you have like everything is bigger in States but I I was pretty I was pretty confused that because I thought uh PDG they they're like their future is going to be okay we want to expand the Disc Go of every single part in the in the world and I feel like that going to be like a of course of course boosting Europe European discol community that we're going to have like a multiple events and all the top players are going to play the European thr so I think that's that's going to boost the European discol community and seen uh like the pretty big way...
