JONESBORO, Ark. — Henna Blomroos led from the opening tee shot to the final putt, closing with a 3-under 62 to win the 2026 Play It Again Sports Jonesboro Open Presented by Westside Discs by one stroke over Holyn Handley at 14-under par.
Behind them, the most arresting number of championship Sunday belonged to Silva Saarinen, who fired a course-low 9-under 56 from the third card to vault from ninth into third at 11-under. Catrina Allen finished fourth at 10-under and Eveliina Salonen rounded out the top five at 9-under.
It is Blomroos’ first Pro Tour Elite Series win of the 2026 season.
Final Standings
| Pos | Player | R1 | R2 | R3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henna Blomroos | 58 | 61 | 62 | −14 |
| 2 | Holyn Handley | 59 | 62 | 61 | −13 |
| 3 | Silva Saarinen | 66 | 62 | 56 | −11 |
| 4 | Catrina Allen | 61 | 63 | 61 | −10 |
| 5 | Eveliina Salonen | 61 | 64 | 61 | −9 |
| 6 | Kona Star Montgomery | 62 | 62 | 64 | −7 |
| T7 | Emily Weatherman | 62 | 68 | 59 | −6 |
| T7 | Sintija Klezberga | 64 | 62 | 63 | −6 |
| T9 | Anneli Tõugjas-Männiste | 63 | 65 | 62 | −5 |
| T9 | Ella Hansen | 63 | 63 | 64 | −5 |
Disc Side of Heaven – Champ Course, par 65, 8,632 feet.
Round 1: Blomroos blazes through the gale
Jonesboro’s homecoming — the event returned to the Pro Tour Elite Series after a one-year absence as an A-tier — opened in conditions that separated contenders from pretenders. Sustained 20-mph winds turned Disc Side of Heaven’s hills into a wind tunnel, with gusts shifting direction mid-flight.
In those conditions, Blomroos’ 7-under 58 stood alone. Taylor Chocek led briefly at 5-under through the front nine before unraveling on the back. Handley played a clean 6-under 59 to settle into second. Catrina Allen and Eveliina Salonen tied for third at 4-under to round out the lead card heading into moving day.
Saarinen, who had looked unstoppable at the Champions Cup the week before, finished the opening round at 1-over 66 — a victim of the same crosswinds that plagued the field. Hole 1, redesigned this year from a par-4 to a par-3 at 465 feet with a mandatory relief zone replacing the old out-of-bounds designation, produced zero birdies across rounds one and two.
Round 2: Montgomery charges, Blomroos holds
Rain arrived for moving day. A cold front rolled through about an hour into the lead card’s morning, turning the clay-heavy fairways slippery and leaving players in jackets as temperatures dropped. Blomroos, raised in Finnish winters, posted a 4-under 61 to extend her lead to two strokes over Handley by day’s end.
The leaderboard reshaped itself behind them. Kona Star Montgomery, working from the chase card, was 3-under through nine holes on her way to a 3-under 62 that lifted her from a tie for fifth into a tie for third with Allen at 6-under. Salonen’s 1-under 64 dropped her off the lead card.
“Kona’s had amazing throwing form since I’ve known her since she was a teenager,” commentator Erika Stinchcomb said. “She’s really coming out looking very confident on the putting green.”
Sofia Donnecke fired the day’s hot card — a 6-under 59 — to climb 13 spots to eighth. Saarinen, Sintija Klezberga, and Ella Hansen also picked up ground. Hole 18, the 345-foot par-3 island hole requiring players to carry a water canal, produced five birdies across the field on moving day, including one from Salonen on the lead card.
Championship Sunday: birdie fest meets pressure cooker
Final-round conditions were everything Round 2 was not. Players arrived in shorts and T-shirts, a soft breeze replacing the gales of the opening day. The field attacked.
The first landmark came on hole 1. Through 36 holes, not a single player had birdied the par-3 opener — a 465-foot test with OB flanking both sides of a mandatory relief corridor. Ella Hansen, playing on the chase card, finally ended the drought with a deuce.
“What a birdie,” commentator Madison Walker said. “That sure feels like an eagle.”
On the lead card, Montgomery birdied the treacherous hole 3 — one of only a handful of birdies made there all tournament — while Blomroos missed a putt she typically converts. Allen worked her way to within one stroke of the lead at the turn, blistering the front nine at 4-under.
“She’s within two now — great conversion,” Walker said as the lead card approached hole nine. “Just a little bit of a tester putt here — but Henna’s good for it. Ties it right back up.”
Handley, meanwhile, struggled with the elevated basket on hole 9, missing a putt that cost her a critical stroke swing.
Saarinen’s scorching final round
The most arresting score of championship Sunday came not from the lead card but from the third. Saarinen, finishing several holes ahead of Blomroos’ group, was 8-under through 12 holes — birdies on 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, and 12 against zero bogeys.
“Look at Silva’s — wow, eight down right now,” Walker said. “No wonder she’s in contention. That’s crazy.”
Saarinen birdied 14 and 16 to push to 9-under for the round before a closing bogey on 18 dropped her final-round score to 56. The 9-under round was the lowest of the tournament by three strokes and lifted her from ninth all the way into third place at 11-under.
Allen’s hole-14 disaster
The 755-foot par-5 hole 14 broke Allen’s run at the title. Sitting at 4-under for the round and within striking distance, she carded a 7 — a double bogey that ended any realistic chance to chase down Blomroos and Handley. From there she played the final four holes in 1-over to finish at 10-under and fourth place.
How it ended
Blomroos played the back nine in 3-under, refusing to give the lead away. Handley got within one stroke twice and birdied 15 to keep pressure on, but a closing par on the island hole 18 left her one short.
Blomroos parred the front of the closing hole and tapped in for bogey to seal it at 14-under, the second straight major-field event won by a Finnish player after Saarinen’s Champions Cup victory the prior week.
The 2026 Play It Again Sports Jonesboro Open Presented by Westside Discs was held April 17–19 at Disc Side of Heaven – Champ Course in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Par 65, 8,632 feet.
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