2025 PDGA Junior Disc Golf World Championships | R1F9 | Nieminen, Kaylor, Aranami, Buterbaugh | MJ18
The 2025 PDGA Junior Disc Golf World Championships feature an exciting lineup of talented young players, including Luca Nieminen from Finland and Kenta Aranami from Japan, among others. The event takes place at Champions Landing in Emporia, Kansas, with the MJ18 age group competing for a major victory before advancing to more senior-level competitions. Gatekeeper Media commentary team Derek and Chris provide expert analysis of the action, discussing technique and strategy as players navigate the challenging course. With holes like the par-5, 999-foot opener featuring an Obstacle on either side, the competition is fierce. International representation is also notable, with players from Finland, Japan, and potentially others, adding to the excitement of this junior event. Watch as these young athletes showcase their skills and compete for top honors in the PDGA Junior World Championships.
Watch top junior disc golfers at PDGA World Championships: Teemu Nieminen vs Tyler Kaylor, Keitaro Aranami & Jake Buterbaugh in MJ18 action.
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How's it going, disc golf fans, and welcome to the 2025 PDGA Junior World Championships. We're here in Emporia, Kansas, starting it off at Champions Landing. Big shout out to all of our Patreon supporters as always. Much love to each and every one of you. And if you'd like to help support this coverage, head on over to Patreon. And a big shout out to Marshall Street for weighing this commentary. I'm Derek and this is Chris. We are Gatekeeper Media. How's it going, bud? It's going well. We Champions Landing, the MJ18. So, these are basically last little shots here to maybe get a major before you start having to play with the big guys in the MO. So, age protected. Here we have Luca, Neiman, and we also have a couple other names here hovering around a thousand. So, some really talented players, Kev. All right, let's start off on hole one. Starting off with a par five is diabolical. Coming in at 999 ft. Pretty much straight as you can get. A little complicated here towards the green OB on either side. >> Shout out Cooper with Glimpse Drone Services over in Emporia helping us out getting the flyovers. Did I read right that Luca is from Finland? Yeah, that's what I was double checking. I was going to say that in the intro and then I didn't actually 100% know. >> Zeb Team Inova. So, the only sponsored player we have on the feature card here, it looks like. Hopefully that changes for one of these bright young talents. And by sponsored, I mean manufacturer sponsored. I'm sure that they have supporters otherwise. And that's a pretty good stock shot there. Nice and in the middle. It's all you got to do. Just miss that tree there. Don't turn it over. >> Applause going. >> Kenta coming over from Japan. So, we're getting some good international representation on this feature card. Sometimes I feel like the amateur and junior events see more international attendance in some cases. Is that Do you get that vibe sometimes? >> Yeah, I would say so. Like the AM Worlds, Junior Worlds, things like that now that we've been covering those events for a couple years consistently. >> All right, that catches edge really good preventing any type of skip over. Butterball. >> Yeah. Uh, spoiler alert. Kenta throws a...
