Best Disc Golf Discs for 2023
As a new year and new tournament season dawns, disc golfers will once again be considering which discs we will be throwing, and looking for new discs to try. Here at Infinite Discs, we thought we would check out our sales from 2022 to let you know what the most popular discs are and give you some discs to consider trying this year. We’ll break it down by disc type and find the top five for each category. Let’s check out the top discs!
Before looking at the individual disc types, let’s look at a graph of all discs sold by Infinite last year, sorted by category. The category that won by a small margin is Putt & Approach, which is just under a third of all sales. Second place was more of a battle. Distance Drivers barely beat Control Drivers by a fraction of a percent. Midranges brought up the rear.
Top Selling Disc Types
- Putt and Approach Discs
- Distance Drivers
- Control Drivers
- Midrange Discs
Best Distance Drivers
The top three drivers were all pretty close in sales, with each of the three representing about 6% of all Distance Driver sales. They are also very similar in flight, having a little turn and good fade. The Infinite Disc’s Emperor just edged out the Innova Wraith for the top spot, both selling within a hundred discs of each other. Innova’s hot selling disc, the Destroyer, was the third most popular disc for 2022. In fourth 
place was another popular Infinite mold, the Pharaoh. It accounted for about 5% of all Distance Driver molds. Wrapping up the top five is the Aztec, Infinite’s speed 10 driver.
It will probably not come as a surprise the most popular plastic for the first-place Emperor is the Halo S-Blend. That good-looking plastic is a hit for any mold. About 22% of all Emperors sold in 2022 was in the Halo S-Blend. The next closest was the Metal Flake Glow C-Blend, with 16% of all Emperors sold in that plastic.
2022 Top Selling Distance Drivers
Read the full breakdown of best disc golf distance drivers of 2023 here.
Best Control Drivers
Stepping down in speed a little bit we find Control or Fairway Drivers. The best Control Drivers for 2022 were also quite close in sales. The Infinite Discs Dynasty was the best-seller for the year, just beating the Finish 
Line Era by half a percent of all Control Drivers sold. There was a neck-and-neck race for third place with two Infinite molds. The Centurion ended up beating the Sphinx by a fraction of a percent. Rounding out the top five is the ever-popular Innova Firebird, not too far behind the Sphinx.
The best-selling plastic for the top Control Driver, the Dynasty, is the Signature Swirly S-Blend. The Eric Oakley Dynasty is a beautiful stamp, and the Swirly S-blend adds even more to its appeal. A little over a third of all Dynasty’s cam in the Signature Swirly S-Blend. The second most popular plastic is the I-Blend. Infinite’s I-Blend has the perfect balance of amazing feel at an inexpensive price. It’s one of my favorites.
Top Selling Fairway Drivers
- Infinite Discs Dynasty
- Finish Line Era
- Infinite Discs Centurion
- Infinite Discs Sphinx
- Innova Firebird
Get the data and read our article on the best fairway drivers here.
Best Midrange Discs
For the Mid’s, there isn’t much of a surprise in discovering the mold that sold the most in 2022. It feels like it has been the category leader forever. Selling more than double the second place mold is the 
amazing Discraft Buzzz. The Buzz made up 12 percent of all Mid’s sold last year. Taking second at around 5% is the Innova Mako3. Just a smidge behind the Mako3 is my favorite, the Infinite Anubis. Another smidge back and you have the Thought Space Athletics Pathfinder. Bringing up the rear, a tick behind the Pathfinder is the Innova Pig. The interesting thing about the Pig, is that for many this disc is classified as a putter or at least an approach disc.
A little over one in four Buzz fans preferred the mold in ESP plastic. ESP was the most popular Buzzz plastic in 2022, beating Z-Line by about 4%.
Top Selling Midrange Discs
Get the full article on the best midrange discs here.
Best Putt and Approach Discs
On to the final, and largest category, Putt/Approach. Technically, that is two categories. Most of us have our putting putters, and separate discs for throwing. Many molds do both quite well, like the number one 
seller for 2022, the Infinite Alpaca. Just a couple years old, the Alpaca has quickly become a favorite of many disc golfers. The Alpaca was the best seller in the Putt/Approach category AND the number one selling mold in all categories in 2022.
Next up, also with some respectable sales numbers, is the Infinite Tomb. It trailed the Alpaca by a couple percentage points. Nearly matching the Tomb in sales is the Discraft Zone. Coming in as the third hottest Putt/Approach disc, the Zone is a perennial favorite among disc golfers. The Axiom Envy moved up a little from last year, cinching the number four spot. Last on the top five best-selling Putt/ Approach discs is the Kastaplast Berg.
The top plastic preference for the top Putt/Approach disc is the Signature P-Blend Glow. Nearly one in four Alpaca buyers chose that plastic. A little over 15% of the Alpacas sold were in D-Blend.
Top Selling Disc Golf Putters and Approach Discs
Read this article for more sales stats and recommendations on the best disc golf putters.
Best Discs Compared To All Disc Sales
Looking at just the top mold in each of the four categories we see that just those four molds make up over 7.5% of all disc sales for the year!
There you have the top five disc sales in each of the four categories. We will provide follow up articles with more details about top sales for each of the four categories of golf discs.
The Best Disc Golf Brands for 2023
And finally, let’s check out the top five discs in each category, and sort by the number of molds each manufacture has in the top five. It turns out that Infinite dominates the field, even beating out Innova as having more molds in the top 5. It’s also interesting to see some of the smaller brands make the list. Here is the breakdown:
Top Selling Disc Golf Brands of 2022
When you include all disc sales of all brands (not just those that included top five discs) on InfiniteDiscs.com these were the top selling disc golf brands of 2022.
- Innova Champion Discs
- Infinite Discs
- Discraft
- MVP
- Thought Space Athletics
- Axiom
- Dynamic Discs
- Discmania
- Prodigy
- Latitude 64
- Lone Star Discs
- Kastaplast
- Gateway
- Westside
- Finish Line Discs
- Yikun
- Streamline
- Dino Discs
- Divergent Discs
- Viking Discs
Check out this moving graph showing monthly disc sales by brand on InfiniteDiscs.com since 2014.
Best Disc Golf Discs for 2023
We Want YOUR feedback!
What do you think the top selling discs of 2023 will be? Let us know what discs you think will make the list for the top distance driver, top control driver, top midrange and top putter. Which disc golf brands do you see moving up or down the list in 2023?
How many of the top molds do you throw? Do you throw the top plastics for the top molds? How many of discs on our list are in your bag?
Ted Hegemann
Ted is the Chief Writer at Infinite Discs. He is responsible for the State of Disc Golf Survey articles and most of the "best discs" posts. Ted runs all kinds of local disc golf leagues and tournaments and tournaments in Northern Utah.
Clash disc on the rise
Surprised to see Kastaplast didn’t make more headlines. I feel if they designed a few of their fairway drivers to have a little less dome, they’ll have a spot in more players bags. Next year I definitely think TSA is shooting up the board, with their new signing and more molds to come, a ton of potential for the company. Might have to add them to my bag!
I am still building my bag as a beginner and this is helpful.
Lone star Dillo could get to the top.
Love to see the tomb doing so well! #TOMBGANG this list kinda looks like my bag, infinite is killing it!
I think the top discs in each category will probably stay the same in 2023. Those discs earned that spot for a reason.
I think lone star and clash are going to move up the leaderboard based on their new signings.
Not surprised by the top sellers in any of the categories, a lot of great discs to choose from! Happy to see the TSA Pathfinder make it in Mids, thats one of my favs!
I really want an Era! Looks super nice
Watch out for Lone Star to make a giant leap on this list for 2024.. with all the people theyve signed, a lot of people will be buying their discs
Surprised the River didn’t make the control driver section. Feels like a must bag.
Thought Doomsday Discs might sneak into the top brands list too, maybe this year! Blackout is a great disc and they have some interesting molds.
2023
Distance – Pharaoh will be there again
Fairway – How about the Firebird moving back up?
Mid – Buzzz for sure
Putter – #tombgang
I think Discraft will come up big. Luna for putter. Buzzz will stay on top for mid range. Undertaker for driver.
I actually don’t throw any of the discs listed here. But, that is probably mostly due to the fact that I throw mainly Legacy and axiom discs. I think the Phenom will be in the top list for 2023, especially if Cole Redalen has a breakout year!
Distance – Pharao
Fariway, Era
Mid, Mako
Putter, Zone
Surprised to see the Tomb so high on the list because I don’t hear much about it from many people. When I was looking for a low profile putter, I found the tomb. Most people I’ve seen don’t say it’s a good putting putter, but it has made everything far more consistent in my release. Perhaps it’s the comfort of a low profile and a board flat top, or maybe it’s the right stability for my putting style, but whatever it is, I’ll continue to use a base plastic tomb as my putting putter and a metalflake plastic for straight drives off of the tee between 0-320 feet.
I always bag a Cohort, and an Aztec comes in and out of the bag.
Of course Lone Star Discs is gonna have a big year, but Thought Space is coming on strong with their signings. Definitely think the TSA Pathfinder is going to jump up the list in 2023. Not taking over the Buzzz, but a strong second.
Lone Star seems like they will have a huge year with their massive Amateur team and pro signings. Infinite and Finish like both continue to come out with good disc after good disc as well.
The Anubis was a gift for my wife, she didn’t throw it much and it has now taken up permanent residence in my bag. It is my go to, thread the needle, approach disc.
I can only think of one disc that I am almost certain will be number one in putters and it’s Trash Panda’s Inner core
That putter is my go to besides divergent discs rubber golem disc.
Trash panda has made the most comfortable and straight flying putter I’ve ever thrown. It made some waves the last two months of 2022 and I see this thing being the buzzz of putters in 2023 where when you think of putter, You think of a trash panda disc.
I throw the wraith and zone, and they will probably always be in my bag.
I feel like MVP/Axiom will be on the come-up as an established brand that will turn a lot of heads this year. The envy is such a great approach disc and I think everyone should have one.
I need to try some more of the infinite molds, given their popularity!
I do not own any infinite discs but have bought a lot of other molds through infinite. I would definitely like to begin trying some of the opportunity arises.
They look great, especially in the halo plastics.