Landon Brooks dominated elite amateur disc golf before turning pro in late 2024. The 15-year-old from Hartford won two Professional Disc Golf Association Junior World Championships.
He continued that success while competing in PDGA events in early 2025, winning three times in 32 events. He was recently named the youngest PDGA Rookie of the Year. First-year pro players earn points based on their place of finish in PDGA B-Tier events and above.
Brooks is the second consecutive Mainer to win the award, following Miles Sayer of Gray.
Midway through the season, Brooks achieved a 1,000 player rating—a benchmark denoting consistently scoring at or below the Scratch Scoring Average.
“I started off really well,” Brooks said. “The goal for the start of the year was to reach a 1,000 rating, but halfway through the year, that’s when I started looking into it more. I realized I was in the running for rookie of the year. That’s when my dad, my mom, and I all made the decision to switch from focusing on achieving 1,000 to aiming for rookie of the year.”
Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite Series and other major events are played over three or four days and attract elite players. A-Tier events also draw top players to regional tournaments that are played over two or three days. B-Tier events are considered state-level tournaments with a minimum of two rounds played over a day or two. There are also C-Tiered events, which are local tournaments with a minimum of one round.
Players earn bonus points for rookie of the year honors by finishing with top 10 player rating, total earnings, total wins, earning average, and winning percentage.
The Brooks family traveled across the U.S. and its territories. Landon competed in 32 tournaments in 2025, including 15 A-Tiers and two Disc Golf Pro Tour Elite Series stops. Over the season, he claimed three wins—two B-Tiers and one C-Tier—and 23 top 10 finishes. He earned $8,192 in prize money.
His most impressive tournament showing came in the B-Tiered Quarries Throwdown on May 24-25 in Websterville, Vermont. He shot 19-under par and won by eight strokes.
“I think that was the first ever tournament we went to in Vermont that I played (as a) pro,” Brooks said. “I actually won that tournament. I had never seen that course before.”
Brooks signed a two-year deal with MVP Disc Sports, a Marlette, Michigan disc golf company that pays him an undisclosed salary that helps cover travel expenses.
Robert Brooks, Landon’s father, said he began mapping out the tournament schedule and traveling more in June.
“There (are) a lot of tournaments around here in the summertime,” Robert said. “That’s when we kind of really caught on to (the fact) he’s in the running for this award. So then I started just planning where we were going to go and how we were going to get there.”
With the rookie of the year title within reach late in the season, the Brooks family traveled to Yabucoa, Puerto Rico, for an A-Tier event. There, Landon tied for seventh at 22-under. His top-10 finish secured the rookie the year honor. He finished with 114.5 points, edging out Logan Pike (105.8).
In 2026, Landon aims to join disc golf’s elite by earning a Disc Golf Pro Tour card, either by finishing in the top 90 of the World Rankings or by placing high in the qualifying series.
