2025 PDGA Amateur World Championships | R3F9 | Carroll, Chirkis, Bontrager, Graber | MA1
The 2025 PDGA Amateur World Championships are being live-streamed from Joseph C. Miller Disc Golf Course in Carroll, Iowa. This exclusive coverage is brought to you by DisCraft and supported by our Patreon supporters, including Marshall Street. The top players in the MA1 division are putting on a show, with familiar faces like Hayden Harold and RJ Turkus facing off against newcomers like Benson and Vincent Graber. As they tackle hole one, 276, par three with two specific gaps to navigate, viewers will witness impressive forehand shots from RJ and clever skip plays from Vinny. Meanwhile, Hayden's experience on the course is paying off, as he takes a strategic approach to the left side of the fairway. Will these top players continue their strong starts, or will others make a move up the leaderboard?
Watch elite amateur players at the 2025 PDGA Amateur World Championships! Carroll, Chirkis, Bontrager & Graber battle for top honors.
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What's up, disc golf fans, and thank you for tuning in here as we are smack dab in the middle of the 2025 PDGA AMW Worlds presented by DisCraft, our last major of the season. This is supported by our Patreon supporters as well. Marshall Street weighing this commentary once again. Big shout out to them. You got Derek and Chris on the mic. What's happening? Hey, hey, hey. Shout out Gateway Discorts for sponsoring this coverage. We're at Joseph C. Miller. So, pretty close to the damn course. We have not seen this course yet for the MA1. We did see it for the FA1 and they're only going to be playing it one time. Uh, some familiar faces and some new faces here. Got Hayden, RJ, new face. We saw Vaughn round two. And then Benson, another new face. All making a push. We're starting to see some separation here. So, I think these top 10 to eight players are really going to be the faces for the rest of this event. Yeah. As we take a look here at hole one, 276, par three, slightly uphill. There's about two specific gaps that you can take. That left side is going to swing a little bit more for you. >> Time stepping into the box from Toledo, Ohio is Hayden Harold. The lefty Hayden put up a pretty good round at Harmony. He was on chase card for round two. Got his way up to the lead. No surprise there. Taking that left side. >> Next up representing Hawthorne, New Jersey, RJ Turkus. >> R.J. predominantly a forehand player. >> Yeah, we're going to see some great forehands out of him this round. >> And we have from Cook, Indiana, Von Vontra. Vaughn playing well enough in round two at the damn course to stay on lead card. Young guy here has got both a backhand and a forehand >> forward movement >> stab at it here at Joseph C. Miller is going to be Vincent Graber from Mboy, Indiana. Oh, playing the skip really nicely. >> Good luck everybody. >> Yeah, this is a tricky one to get the two on. A lot of trees to miss. It's uphill pretty far. going from about 50 or so. And this was the fifth hardest hole. 63% of the field was taken par here. Came in around par. So,...
