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Ken Climo
Ken Climo, nicknamed "the Champ," won nine consecutive PDGA World Championships from 1990 to 1998, a streak of complete Open Division dominance that remains unmatched in the sport's history, before finally losing at Worlds in 1999 to Ron Russell. He came back to win three more titles later in his career — in 2000, 2002, and 2006 — for 12 World Championships overall, still the all-time record and four more than any other player has managed. Climo built that record during disc golf's considerably smaller, less commercially developed early era, giving him an outsized influence on the sport's competitive technique and culture at a time when today's larger professional tour and course infrastructure didn't yet exist. His combination of an unmatched nine-year consecutive championship streak and his all-time record 12 World titles has made Climo widely regarded as disc golf's first great champion and one of its most historically significant figures.
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Ricky Wysocki
Ricky Wysocki, nicknamed "Sockibomb," won back-to-back PDGA World Championships in 2016 and 2017, part of a career that's also produced six Major titles — a combined résumé that ranks him among the sport's most accomplished players, well behind only Ken Climo's all-time record. On January 4, 2022, Wysocki signed a four-year, $4 million contract with Dynamic Discs, a deal that paid a $1 million base salary with the potential to reach $2 million depending on sales of his signature discs — a level of sponsorship money that would have been unimaginable in disc golf's earlier competitive eras. Wysocki and Dynamic Discs mutually parted ways at the end of the 2024 season, and in 2025 he signed with Discraft's Elite Team, a second major sponsorship shift that underscored just how much the sport's commercial stakes had grown since he turned professional as PDGA Rookie of the Year. His combination of back-to-back World Championships and his historic $4 million Dynamic Discs contract has made Wysocki one of the defining commercial and competitive figures of disc golf's modern professional era.
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