2026 Discraft‘s Supreme Flight Open - FPO Final F9 Recap

Championship Sunday at the 2026 Discraft Supreme Flight Open. A beautiful day – light north wind, warm temperatures, Spanish moss swaying. The lead card featured Taylor Chocek at twelve-under (fresh off a New Zealand tour and leading the tournament in her first time on lead card), Lisa Fajkus at eleven-under (no stranger to lead cards but still chasing that elusive win), Jessica Gurthie at ten-under, and Missy Gannon at ten-under. The chase card sat just one to two strokes behind. Commentary by Madison Walker and Erica Stinchcomb – the Two Hot Geese.

Hole 1 | Par 3 | 283 ft | Uphill, new tee pad

A chilly start to the morning with the light wind adding to the chill. Jessica Gurthie came out firing, finding the circle and converting for the only birdie on the card – a statement opening. Lisa put it wide trying to get it to fade, ending up just a bit right for par. Taylor settled into a comfortable par to start her first ever lead card appearance. Missy was “consistently in the bushes” as the commentators joked, actually shooting through to the other side, but she scrambled to just outside the bullseye for par. A solid, controlled start for the card.

Results: Gurthie birdie | Chocek par | Fajkus par | Gannon par

Hole 2 | Par 4 | 660 ft | New tee, treacherous green

The second-most difficult hole of the day, averaging nearly half a stroke over par with only one birdie – and it came from the lead card. Missy threw a massive shot from the tee, landing on the left side of the fairway and opening up her second shot. While Taylor and Lisa both dealt with the dense middle fairway after early-releasing their drives, Missy’s experience showed – she knew how to handle the nerves and the moment. She found a wide-open straddle putt on a flat, level stance and converted a beautiful birdie. Taylor caught a tree on the right side and found one of the densest areas on the course. Lisa also edged into the rough. Both scrambled for bogey. Jessica narrowly avoided the water hazard on the treacherous green and managed par.

Results: Gannon birdie | Gurthie par | Chocek bogey | Fajkus bogey

Hole 3 | Par 4 | 415 ft | Shorter, hillside basket

The easiest hole of the day with nearly 60% of the field birdying it. Three birdies on the lead card. Taylor threw one of the best drives the commentators had seen – up on the hill, perfect distance, fantastic hair shining in the sun – and walked away with the easiest birdie of the day. Missy late-released a bit but worked it perfectly, converting from 15 feet for her second birdie in a row. Jessica hit a window through the trees and worked a turning shot through the Spanish moss for birdie. Lisa went a touch early but found a skip to putt range – she flirted with the OB line just outside the bullseye but couldn’t convert, settling for par.

Results: Chocek birdie | Gannon birdie | Gurthie birdie | Fajkus par

Hole 4 | Par 4 | 515 ft | Technical, blind tee shot

The third-most difficult hole of the day. Missy threw a literally perfect drive – low, smoked through the gap, just like she did in round one. A hyzer around the corner landed her past the one tree that usually blocks this shot. She converted for a turkey – birdies on 2, 3, and 4. “She is too calm, dude. She’s just showing up and doing her thing.” Everyone on the lead card was shivering their timbers. Taylor went deep and possibly through the woods, but her scramble skills saved her – a nice touch forehand inside the circle for par. Lisa found trouble off the fairway and had to play survival golf, adjusting her game plan with the experience of a veteran to save par. Jessica put extra juice on her drive and went deep, finding a slower speed disc to hug the inside corner for a well-managed par.

Results: Gannon birdie | Chocek par | Fajkus par | Gurthie par

Hole 5 | Par 3 | 284 ft | Cliff to cliff, mandatory relief

Two bogeys on the lead card on a hole that was the third easiest of the day – a sign of how tight the pressure was. Lisa was the lone birdie, one of only seven field-wide. Jessica had a birdie look set up but missed with an uncharacteristic putt. Missy didn’t get up on top of the bluff and had to take it from where she last crossed in the relief area, unable to save par after her turkey was broken. Taylor also found trouble and took bogey. The commentators noted that holes 5 and 6 are the stretch where you want to find at least one birdie – and the lead card was struggling to do it.

Results: Fajkus birdie | Gurthie par | Gannon bogey | Chocek bogey

Hole 6 | Par 3 | 320 ft | Downhill, hay bales, swirling wind

The wind arrived. What had been calm became swirly – a ripping headwind from the tee pad with flags screaming right to left at the basket. The commentators noted this was a weird math problem they never practice: throwing straight down at a short hole with that much wind. Players disked up from putters to mid-ranges to compensate. Lisa turned and burned, the wind offering no help at that angle. Jessica gave it too much height and the wind pushed her left into the rough. Missy went too straight and landed in the spectator area (not OB, thankfully) and had to throw a low, no-arc chip approach. All four players managed par in a hole that usually produces easy birdies – the wind had changed everything. The lead card combined for zero birdies on holes 5 and 6.

Results: All pars

Hole 7 | Par 3 | 284 ft | New tee pad, flex shot, swirling wind

The wind continued to be tricky – sometimes headwind, sometimes right to left, mostly blocked but present. Taylor read it well, powered through it, and made a remarkable putt with her foot planted on a tree root – pure college athleticism, a Bulgarian split squat putt. Birdie. Lisa got her flex to hold with steam and tapped in for birdie, getting back into the mix. Jessica threw a floaty annie putter that slid through the chains – par but a gutsy bid. Missy didn’t quite turn it enough, found the sawgrass, hit a window with her forehand approach but came in too hot and landed in the deep shul. She couldn’t escape for her second bogey of the front nine.

Results: Chocek birdie | Fajkus birdie | Gurthie par | Gannon bogey

Hole 8 | Par 3 | 390 ft | Downhill, crosswind, OB left

An intense headwind on the tee pad that blew off a hat, shifting to left-to-right crosswind partway down. All four players went backhand – surprising from these power forehand players, but the conditions demanded it. Taylor threw a great backhand and earned her second birdie in a row, working her way back under par and staying in the mix. Only six birdies on hole 8 today. Missy didn’t quite get the turn on her backhand and found the wide corner, but managed to work a window to circle’s edge for a well-played par. Lisa and Jessica also secured pars. With the leaderboard incredibly tight – only three strokes separating the top eight – every stroke mattered.

Results: Chocek birdie | Fajkus par | Gurthie par | Gannon par

Hole 9 | Par 3 | 404 ft | Downhill, turkey on the line

The final hole of the front nine with turkeys on the line. Taylor crushed it – so deep on the hillside that the commentators marveled at the distance. She converted for her third birdie in a row: turkey on holes 7, 8, and 9, a remarkable closing stretch to hold the lead. Jessica threw a nose-down linear approach that hit center cage – so close to an ace that the commentators wished it into existence. The disc sat down for a tap-in birdie and a scorching three-under front nine. Missy found a good look outside circle two and played a safe approach for par. Lisa found a strange lie on the hillside that made everything weird, settling for par.

Results: Chocek birdie | Gurthie birdie | Fajkus par | Gannon par

Front 9 Summary

Taylor Chocek held the lead heading into the back nine, her turkey on 7-8-9 giving her a two-stroke cushion. Jessica Gurthie was the hottest player on the card at three-under, including a near-ace on 9, sitting just one back. Lisa Fajkus stayed in the hunt with birdies on 5 and 7, and Missy Gannon’s turkey on 2-3-4 was offset by bogeys on 5 and 7.

But the race was impossibly tight. Holyn Handley was tied for the lead at some point. Ohn Scoggins from the chase card was in a tie for fifth. Addison Woodard was shooting the hot round at seven-under through 13. Only three strokes separated the top eight players with ten holes to play. The back nine at Olympus would decide everything.