Rachel Turton [FPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Prodigy Disc
PDGA Rating:
 939

  • Must Bag Discs: D1, A3 & Pa-3
  • 2023 Aspirations:
    ✅ Shoot a 1,000 rated round
    ✅ Play in a PDGA Major
    ✅ Play at least one US DGPT event
  • Top Tip: Believe!
  • Achievements:
    🥇 2023 EPT Turku Open Champion
    🥇 2023 EPT Tynni Open Champion
    🥇 2023 ET Konopiste Open Champion
    🥇 2022 EPT Copenhagen Open Champion
    🥇 2022 EPT All Stars Champion
    🥇🥇🥇 3x British Champion
    🥏 European Ultimate Champion
    🥏🥏 2x National Ultimate Champion

Noah Smithson [MPO]

PDGA Rating: 983

  • Must Bag Discs: Firebird, Zone, P Model S
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ⬛ Qualify for the European Open
  • Highlight from 2022: Making cash at the Tyyni Open
  • Weakest part of your game: Touchy backhand shots
  • Top Tip: Don't focus too heavily on round scores. It's far more important to develop skills which facilitate long term success
    🥇 2023 British Champion

Ben Holding [MPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Launch Disc Golf
PDGA Rating:
 980

  • Must Bag Discs: Zone, XXX, Baron
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ⬛ Win more money than I spend on Tour in Europe
    ⬛ Reach 1,000 rated
    ⬛ Win as much as possible
    ⬛ Throw 500ft left handed consistenly
    ⬛ Consistently throw 75mph RHBH
    ⬛ Consistently throw 70mph LHBH
  • Highlight from 2022: 2022 British Matchplay Champion
  • Top Tip: If you want to improve, film yourself and analyse it

Matt Parslow [MPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Prodiscus
PDGA Rating: 979

  • Must Bag Discs: Origo, Glow Laseri, Jokeri
  • Highlight from 2022: Gaining exposure on the European & US circuits
  • 2023 Aspirations: To shoot higher than 930 rounds all year
  • Weakest part of your game: Footwear choices
  • Achievements: Shooting over 1,000 rated rounds against opposition in the US is up there

Iain McDougall [MPO & MP40]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Launch Disc Golf
PDGA Rating: 976

  • Must Bag Discs: Innova JK Aviar X, Launch Horizon & Innova Star Katana
  • 2023 Aspirations:
    ✅ Become 6x British MP40 Champion
    ⬛ Place Top 10 at EDMDC
    ✅ Be competitive in MPO at the ripe old age of 46
  • Top Tip: Play your practice rounds exactly as you would in a tournament
  • Achievements:
    🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 6x British MP40 Champion 2018-2022
    🏆 2021 BDGA TD of the Year
    🏆 2022 BDGA Spirit of the Game
    🇬🇧🇬🇧 Has represented Team GBR at WFDF world Teams in 2017 and 2023

Josh Birmingham [MPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: EV-7
PDGA Rating: 972

  • Must Bag Discs: Penrose, Roc3, Firebird
  • 2023 Aspirations: Give back, play better, make more friends
  • Highlight from 2022: SummerSlam 2022
  • Top Tip: Remember to have fun
  • Top Trumps:
    Arm Speed - 61mph
    Max D - 524'
    Best Rated Round - 1,041

Michael Sharkey [MA1]

PDGA Rating: 967

  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Attend more overseas A tier events
  • Favourite Pro: Contractually obligated to say Gregg Barsby
  • Weakest part of your Game: Distance
  • Achievements: 
    🥇 2022 British Amateur Champion
    🥇 EPT-X 2022 Welsh Open Champion
    🥇 2022 British and Irish Tour Points Champion
    🥈 2nd Best Berg Player in the World
  • Top Trumps:
    Arm Speed - 55mph
    Best Rated Round - 1,027
    Max Distance - 145m / 475f6

Jamie Matthews [MPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Prodigy Disc
PDGA Rating: 962

  • Must bag discs: 400 D1, FX-2 & Pa-3
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ⬛ Be 100% fit again
    ✅ Play in Europe
    ✅ Finish Top 30 in a European Event
  • Dream Course: Maple Hill
  • Top Tip: Really dial in your discs. Find moulds that compliment your style and can give you shot shapes from just throwing them flat
  • Achievements:
    🥇 2021 British Open Champion

Oliver Harris [MPO]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Prodiscus
PDGA Rating:
 947

  • Must Bag Discs: Sparta, Talisman, Titan
  • 2022 Highlight: Installing a course at Loughborough University
  • Top Tip: Develop an ego around the things you're genuinely good at and don't punish yourself for your current limitations.
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ⬛ Reach 1,000 rated
  • Top Trumps:
    Aces - Genuinely lost count
    Total OB Strokes - Less than Chris Brown
    Best Rated Round - 994

Harry Messenger [MA1]

Manufacturer Sponsor: Team Launch
PDGA Rating: 928

  • Must Bag Discs: Launch Lander, Axiom Crave, Kastaplast Lots
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Professionalise and drive forward the BDGA Am Tour
    ✅ Run my own 3/4 events
    ⬛ Reach a 935 PDGA rating
    ✅ Win a MA1 event
    ⬛ Continue to dominate Stan Valentine
  • Favourite Pro: Eagle McMahon
  • Weakest part of your Game: Forehands
  • Achievements: 
    🏆 2021 BDGA TD of the Year
    🔥 Making final round lead card in MA1 at the British Open and feeling like I belonged there
    🎉 Being nominated for 2022 TD of the Year after running a very professional and high-quality event at Cotswold View

Evla Preston [FA1]

PDGA Rating: 880

  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Better Consistency during tournaments
    ✅ Increased distance
    ✅ +++ Rating
  • Favourite Pros: Maria Oliva and Simon Lizotte
  • Dream course to play: Maple Hill and Elva Disc Golf Park (for obvious reasons)
  • Highlights from 2022: On the course: getting my first career win & Off the course: watching Stan do a shoey
  • Top Trumps:
    Tournament wins - 4
    Best Rated Round - 920
    Max D - 335'

    🥇 2023 British Amateur Champion

Natalie Pitt [FA1]

PDGA Rating: 870

  • Favourite disc: Discraft Fierce, Discraft 2022 Tour Series ESP Zone, Discraft Hailey King ESP Vulture
  • Favourite course: Felin Geri, Wales
  • 2022 Highlight: Playing for GB at Team Worlds Disc Golf in Croatia
  • Top Tip: Even the best players hit the first tree, you’ve just gotta laugh it off and scramble on
  • Achievements: 
    🇬🇧 Representing Team GB at 2022 Team Worlds Disc Golf in Croatia
    👬🏼 Drawing against Canada whilst playing dubs with Ace teamie Birmingslam 😊
    🎨 Designing the 2022 UKWDGA bag tag
    🏅 Getting a 920 rated round at SummerSlam playing the course blind

Rachel Ireland-Jones [FA2]

PDGA Rating: 732

  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Shake off my ankle injury
    ⬛ Shoot 850 rated round
    ⬛ Reach 800 rating and stay there!
  • Must Bag Discs: Lat64 Sapphire, EV7 Penrose, K3 Reko
  • 2022 Highlight: SummerSlam
  • Local Course: Mount Edgecumbe, Plymouth
  • Achievements: 
    🥇 2021 FA2 Croydon Cyclone Champion
    🥇 2021 FA2 NDO Champion

Stan Valentine [MA1]

PDGA Rating: 939

  • Must Bag Discs: Innova Star Wraith, Z Raptor & Z Meteor
  • Dream Course: Toboggan
  • Top Tip: Play your percentage and opt for the shot that suits your game on the day. If you're putting poorly, don't be afraid to lay up.
    If your driving is feeling shaky, don't go after tough lines even if they were the lines you practiced.
    Play your game shot-by-shot reactively, things never go as planned, but don't let this stop you from committing to each and every shot you choose.
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Get a MA1 win
    ✅ 930+ rated
    ⬛ a 970+ average rated tournament
  • Top Trumps:
    Leftie or Rightie - Leftie
    Aces - 1
    Arm Speed - 62mph

Steve Nolan [MA2]

PDGA Rating: 919

  • Must Bag Discs: Zone, Force & Nuke
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Win in MA2
    ⬛ Shoot 1,000 rated
    ⬛ Compete in an international tournament
  • Highlight from 2022: Touring with Southampton University Disc Golf Club and sharing the season with them
  • Weakest part of the game: Headwind driving
  • Top Trumps:
    Max D - 467'
    OB Stroke - 96
    Aces - 13

Fergus McLean [MA1]

PDGA Rating: 916

  • Must Bag Discs: Titanium Zone, ESP Buzzz & Opto Explorer
  • 2023 Aspirations: 
    ✅ Get Top 3 in MA1 on the Quaich Tour
    ⬛ No Sub 900 Rounds
    ⬛ 930+ rated
    ✅ Have Fun
  • Favourite Pro: Kristin Tattar
  • Highlight from 2022: My Dad caddying for me at North Fife open and bringing home the win
  • Top Trumps:
    Arm Speed - Chicken and Mushroom Pot Noodle
    Tournament Wins - 5
    Best Rated Round - 974

    🥇 2023 Quaich Tour Amateur Champion

Max Humphries [MA3]

PDGA Rating: 807

  • Dream dinner guests: The cast of 'The High Rollers DND podcast'
  • Weakest part of your game: Mental
  • Highlight from 2022: SummerSlam. Incredible atmosphere, fantastic course and great cards
  • Top Tip: Keep a towel wrapped around a hand warmer so it both dries and still warms your hands
  • Top Trumps:
    Number of Aces - The one that matters, Team Ace
    Tournament Wins - 1
    Arm Speed - Turtle 🐢

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