Final Round Highlights | MPO | 2026 PDGA Pro World Championships

A few months ago Latvia's best player needed to be convinced to fly to the United States to represent his country. Today Reiner Baloudis enters with a three-shot lead and must only convince himself that he can become a world champion near the Motor City. This is Championship Sunday at the 2026 PDGA World Championships presented by First Form. What a statement this would be for Reiner Baloudis. He can knock this down. Early momentum. Bang! Incredible. Ice cold from Reiner. What a start. Looks even better from Schultz. He's going to track right to the pin and slides up to Bullseye's edge. Schultz should birdie the second. Short compact swing and light work of the third for Silas Schultz. And how far up the fairway did Baloudis go? This should be the simplest shot of his round so far. Nothing in his way. Just needs to get the weight right. I like that attack angle. Check the speed. There you go. Bounces right on circle one. Whisker curls up on a bullseye. He's going to start the day with the hat trick. He'll be one. He'll just be the third player on the course today to come out and knock down the first three. Let's see a five for Barella. This is going to slide. Needs to miss the tree and it does. Slides right into the bullseye. Now has three in a row. Are you kidding me? He's unstoppable. Robinson continues to march. He's collected six under. I like the line here. Checks up. A dunk coming up for Jake Mahn. See how much touch he has in it. Yeah, this is flipping up a little bit. It's going to skip. Oh, that's C1 all day. Another one. Six for six. Building that reputation as we watch. It's going to happen for him if he gets this done. Mahn's going to keep it rolling. A much better approach by Robinson. He's looking to capitalize and get yet another birdie. You want another perfect one? Oh, no. Too straight. It skips up and out of bounds. The positioning won't be terrible. Parr still very much in play. We saw Gossage make a mistake from that same spot practically yesterday. Up there on the flat on the right side, a staggered gap. I liked it out of his hand. I thought the thing was going to start to pull over. No. Ground play wouldn't hurt. There you go. Perfect. Anticipated bump and run. Circles edge for Rick, and he converts. Just Ricky's second birdie of the day. This is Zach Nash for seven straight birdies. All of a sudden, he's in a tie for third. Ten pack through a dozen for Nash. Plenty of height. All the things going his way this afternoon. Yes. Nine for ten. Excuse me, eight for nine start. I'm hoping that's what he's going to do. I'd hate to see him try to do something heroic and get punished, be in danger of going double bogey. He's sending this. Yes, there is. No. Sit down, sit down, sit down, sit down. There you go. Opportunity for Schultz to pick up a stroke or two potentially. That's it. That's it. Birdie coming for Schultz. That'll get him to 31 under. Nash. I'm not mistaken, that's going to get him to 30 under par and a tie for second. And Robinson will join Nash at 30 under. 30 percent birdie rate for the field. Carving copy of his shot yesterday. Inside the circle to Whisker about 60 feet for AB. That drive from Reiner's. Opportunity here for Silas to get one close and gain a stroke back. Oh, that needs to fade. Not the worst reaction. That looks like inside circle one. He was on the fence about coming because it just was too costly. Now cashing. No, no, no, no, no. That's why we don't run that putt off the top so close to going in. That was the hero putt right there. And this is the reaction you loathe. These greens are so treacherous. He's been putting so well, far be it for me to question the decision. Schultz will pick up two on our leader. Guaranteed to get all the way through it. So many OB shots throughout the week being stopped by that tree. Barella. There have been four Eagles already today. Barella going to add to it. Most likely circle one. If he does, he'll fall back to 28 under. Schultz at 32 under. Love it. Swing. Can this find circle one? Yes. Parked bullseye as it slides back to the pin. Massive break for Nash. Can he take advantage? Yes. Circle two. Banger. 12 deep. Championship Sunday. Saving his best for last on fire. It's good. Time and time again. Huge drive by Robinson sets him up here. Can he get to 33 under? Got it, man. There's very few people that get to this place in the fairway. Looks like that slides up to circle one. Just a little long. Trying to attack for the Eagle. Like the shape. Hang on. It's going to end up on the left side. No, it's not. It's going to be right in the middle. This is still not an easy shot. Does he have the power? He could have zero swing. Seems to be tracking right again. Big, big strategic mistake. Aggressive in that spot with shot three. Schultz needs to get up and down or throw it in. Oh my goodness. There you go. Could you imagine? Schultz next to the basket looking at the par. There's the shot. Excuse me. Okay. I thought I saw it come into frame earlier. Potentially a world saving putt coming up. Yes. Clutch moment once again. Zach Nash at 12 under. Can he get to 13 for the round? Oh, I think that'll guarantee it. Zach Nash. What a day thus far. One more putt. A little bit of indecision. No. Get up there somewhere. Okay. Keeps him on the grid. Pretty fantastic result considering. I don't know what to say there, but he stepped right next to his mini. I blatantly saw it. I don't know if anybody else did or not or what happened. I'm sorry. I don't want to be that guy, but I saw that. I got to call it. Potential. What it looks like Gossage is calling is that he was too far left of his mini and not in a legal spot to be taking his stance. That's what it appears that Gossage has called as we're taking a look at it right now. That's too close to call on. That's so on so close. I can recall that Scott Stokely thing that happened back in Pittsburgh years ago and he was feet away from his mark. That wasn't that bad. Silas Schultz on the green tap in birdie coming up. He is just outside of bullseye. He was just left of it. Yeah, he's he was in front of it and left. A moment ago, you heard Gossage explaining to teammate Silas what he thinks he had seen there. Everything going around him right now here at the 17th and find a way to get this one in the bucket. It's on its way. Oh, my goodness. Everything but in. So we're hearing officially stance violation penalty assessed to Balotis and that's going to result in a bogey and that putt is going to tie the world championship. Man, it looks worse from that angle. But to your point, the direction that he's throwing, he's coming at it from a parallel. Yes, throw the opposite direction. Yes. So that's why I think visually it looks bad. But to my eye, it's like his foots here. I wish I could draw that. I'm not going to draw on the screen, but it's like his foot was working along the parallel behind the mini instead of going in front of it. It's not egregious. I didn't. My view was what a tough call to have thrown on your shoulders in that situation. There's that one tree up there, left edge about 70 feet, 80 feet away. He's got to beat that one to get it close. Flex line. Does it have the right speed? It looks like it's coming in hot, inbounds. Schultz is safe. A birdie lock. Hard to say what the length is on that for Schultz. I get a good look around. I don't think circle one. He's in a great position in the fairway. A shot for the worlds. It skips up. What a shot. Inside circle one, just outside a bullseye. Schultz marked at 55 feet. He'll need to make it to force a playoff. Schultz one for three today from circle two. Looking to erase the memory of that air nugget back there on the island green 16th. He needs this to force a playoff. A birdie on the 8th. A 10 under championship Sunday round. Now looking at a playoff. What a close from Schultz. He tracks him down. Unbelievable. Pro worlds. The ups and downs of these last nine holes. I told you guys these last nine holes were going to be something special. What a show these guys have put on this afternoon. And he's done it. Wow. You could think of a couple moments in the last 25 minutes or so that were pivotal. What it could have been for Silas had he not missed that 12-foot putt at hole 12. I mean, it was 15 feet away. If he had not just been called for a football, he would be with the winner right now. I think about all those birdies in a row early. He built the big lead. He needed every last shot to survive the charge, but we're going to get some more golf. If they were to tie on this hole, they'll come back to the tee where Silas would tee first. Love to end up in the same place. Looks a little tight this time. It's all a little tree. Oh no. Out of position, off the box. Stays inbounds. Does it turn? It looks wide. That's not going to happen, man. Flirts with OB, but again, stays inbounds. This time closer to the OB within a foot of being out. He's shown us nothing but hyper-aggressive play so far. I expect that to continue. Got to sit down. No. Out of bounds. Game over, man. Silas will be able to lay up. Brutal. Absolutely brutal way to end that run. Well done. Less than 15 feet. The Latvian needs to bury this. A miracle in Milford. No. So much to take away from the week for the young Latvian. A superstar is born, in my view. Silas Schultz to become a world champion. He's done it. It's unreal. I think, like, listening to Uli talk about his win, he felt like he couldn't lose. And this whole week, for months, I felt like I've been close to winning. And there's been, like, just one thing that's gone wrong. And I was close a few times. And I just felt like, man, Worlds is going to be my time. Even though it was insane. It felt insane, but I felt it. And there was even moments throughout the week where I was driving, and I thought, this might be, like, the last couple of days where I don't have a win. Which is crazy. And I was signing yesterday with Gannon. And I saw him write one time next to his name. And I was like, this is going to be my last session before I write one time next to my name. Just stuff like that that would hit me. And I was just thinking, like, man, it's scripted. And so that's what I kept telling myself. That's what Ty Love always says. It's scripted. So yesterday, I was just thinking about it when I would get nervous. And this morning, I was like, I'm winning it on 18. And everyone's going to rush. So that's why I wasn't even scared whenever I had the 50-footer. Because I said, it's scripted. I'm making it. And I'm winning on 18. I was just praying they didn't let us go to one as the playoff hole. Because he would have just got me, no problem on that one. So when I heard it was 18, I said, oh, yeah, it's scripted. I got it. So it feels improbable. But it just felt like the Lord was with me. Just, like, edging me on the whole way. I made it to this point. And it's still unreal. Shout out to all of them who are back home, probably going absolutely insane. I think they were having some watch parties. Shout out to the Schultz family. Shout out to my parents and my siblings. My putting has gotten a little bit better over the last few weeks. And the key has been, I just think about my mom before I putt. And I say, she didn't raise someone who would putt into the cage. And so then I just, I just, whenever I got onto that putt, I was like, yeah, I just thought about my mom. And then I sent it in. So shout out to all of them. Shout out to Louisiana. I mean, this is, this is unbelievable. Unbelievable.