The disc golf careers of legends Ken Climo and Paul McBeth overlapped for over a decade. In the mid-2010s, As Ken Climo began playing fewer tournaments, and even fewer in the MPO division, McBeth’s domination began. Although we won’t ever get to see these two athletes compete head-to-head in their primes, they did compete against one another at 42 tournaments, encompassing 157 rounds from 2006 to 2017. That’s a lot of disc golf tournaments featuring two of the best the sport has ever seen! With such a large sample size, we would usually expect one of the two players to emerge as the clear victor in their head-to-head matchups. Somehow, that didn’t happen with Climo and McBeth. The difference in their total throw counts across these events: a mere thirteen strokes!
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In the Climo vs Mcbeth example from earlier, Hyzermetrics Head2Head shows how the matchups between the champs changed over the years. It makes sense that 54 year-old Climo dominated the first three years of the battle (2006-2009) as 32 year-old McBeth came onto the scene. The next three years saw a back-and-forth struggle between the two powerhouses. As McBeth established dominance in the disc golf world in 2012 he slowly started to make up the ground he’d lost in the early years of the matchup.
The decade-long head-to-head battle between Ken Climo and Paul McBeth likely came to an end in 2017, with Climo playing few PDGA tournaments, and even fewer in the MPO division. While I am not prepared to weigh in on which disc golfer is the greatest of all-time, Hyzermetrics Head2Head can tell us how these incredible athletes fared when they competed against one-another.
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