Paul McBeth

Of the 25 tournaments he competed in, McBeth won 15, placed 2nd in 5, and 3rd in 3.

McBeth's worst finish of the year was 6th place, which happened twice.

He took home many key trophies and topped it off with a World Championship.

In the Memorial Championship, a National Tour event, McBeth bested Johne McCray by 4 strokes after coming into the final round tied.

His final round performance netted him $4,000.

McBeth also won two majors.

First, McBeth was able to net himself $4,412 and a victory in the European Masters by shooting a final round, tournament-best score of -12, giving him the win over second place finisher Karl Johan Nybo by 4 strokes.

Paul McBeth (born July 9, 1990) is an American professional disc golfer from Huntington Beach, California.

Although he played his first professional event in 2006, McBeth's professional career began in 2008, when he played in 29 professional events, netting $11,852.50 in winnings and earning the PDGA Male Rookie of the Year Award.

McBeth turned pro in 2008.

His career earnings are $652,124.09 (as of September 2022).

Citing knee pain as the reason for his falling putting percentage, McBeth switched to a straddle stance for the European Open (DGWT), an event he has not lost since 2011.

The switch was effective, and McBeth bested Wysocki by two strokes to win the event.

Back home in the United States, however, McBeth's struggles continued.

He won the PDGA World Championships four times in a row (2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015) and again in 2019 and 2022, making him a six-time champion.

He did not finish outside the top 2 at a World championship between 2012 and 2022.

He placed 3rd in the Beaver State Fling (NT), and then tied for 12th place in the Vibram Open (NT), his lowest finish in three years.

After another one stroke loss to Wysocki at the European Masters (DGWT), McBeth took another 12th-place finish at the Majestic.

Wysocki continued his incredible season with his first World title, beating McBeth by 6 strokes and ending his 4-year winning streak.

Feeling healthy and his form back in check, McBeth took a commanding 12 stroke win at the Ledgestone Insurance Open the next week, followed by an 11 stroke victory at the Brent Hambrick Memorial Open (NT).

McBeth finished the National Tour in second place behind Wysocki, ending another 4-year streak.

At the end of the inaugural Disc Golf Pro Tour, McBeth placed 4th in the Green Mountain Championship, resulting in a 5th-place finish in the points standings and an automatic berth into the Tour Championship semifinals, which he would go on to win.

McBeth donated his $10,000 winnings from the Tour Championship to help pay medical bills for his cousin, who was injured in an accident.

Along with his six World titles, McBeth has received the PDGA Male Player of the year three times (2013, 2014, 2015).

During McBeth's 2014 campaign, he competed in 25 tournaments which netted him $40,907.

The second major McBeth won during the 2014 season was the coveted PDGA World Championship.

He and Ricky Wysocki were tied after the final hole resulting in a sudden-death playoff.

The playoff would eventually go to five holes before McBeth ultimately took home the World Championship and the $5,000 prize that came with it.

McBeth was the top rated player of the PDGA in 2015, 2017, 2018, and again in 2019.

He is widely considered to be the best disc golfer of the modern era.

McBeth dominated the 2015 season, winning 19 of 25 events by an average of almost 6 strokes and finishing in the top 3 in every event.

He won all five Major events, disc golf's first Grand Slam, including his fourth World title and his first ever win at the USDGC, making him only the third man to win both the World and US titles in the same year (after Ken Climo and Barry Schultz).

McBeth also took home three NT wins and earned enough points to win the National Tour for the fourth straight year.

2016 started off looking like a continuation of McBeth's commanding 2015 season.

After winning a B-Tier event in California, McBeth won the Memorial Championship (NT), followed by the La Mirada Open, the first event of the Disc Golf World Tour (DGWT).

At the Nick Hyde Memorial (A-Tier), McBeth lost in a sudden death playoff with Nate Sexton and Simon Lizotte, who went on to win the event.

Over the next three events, McBeth lost the Glass Blown Open (NT) by one stroke to Cam Todd, the Konopiste Open (DGWT) in a playoff to Lizotte, and the Masters Cup by one stroke to Ricky Wysocki on a 70-foot putt.

He proposed to Hannah Croke in April 2017 and got married in December 2018.

On October 8, 2019 McBeth held a PDGA rating of 1060 which, at the time, was the highest rating ever achieved by a professional disc golfer.

This was exceeded on March 13, 2020, when he was rated 1061.