Why the Mako 3 Is Suddenly Back in Favour (Jan 25, 2026)

Top-ranked discs on Sunday January 25, 2026

The most interesting thing about this week’s chart is how little drama there is at the very top. According to the latest DiscList rankings, Jan 25, 2026 is a week of steady hands and small tells, rather than fireworks. Buzzz OS holds #1 for the ninth straight week, which is the disc golf equivalent of a pub that never changes the carpet because it knows you’ll come anyway.

Behind it, the Crave at #2 and the Hex at #3 keep their places, and the Destroyer stays at #4 looking like it could tow a small caravan. Pixel (#5) and Glitch (#6) remain the putter double act: one a tidy, modern straight-shooter, the other a floaty novelty that somehow keeps becoming a habit. People tell themselves they’re buying “a fun disc”. Then it’s permanently in the bag. Funny, that.

The juiciest movement in the top group is the Mako 3, up from #9 to #7 and marked “Heating Up”. That sounds modest until you remember how people actually shop. A straight midrange is a reassurance purchase. It’s the disc you buy when you are fed up with your own inconsistency and would like an inanimate object to be the adult in the relationship. Mako 3 does that job beautifully. It also has something else going for it: it flatters a throw that’s 90 percent right. Many discs demand perfection. This one rewards intent.

And when one disc becomes the designated “honest” option, it spreads socially. Someone in your group throws a laser. You ask what it was. You buy one. You tell yourself you chose it rationally. Of course you did.

There’s a small counter-story at #9. Berg X drops two spots from #7. That’s not a collapse, it’s a slight loosening of the cult. Berg moulds are famously stubborn in the air, and that stubbornness is brilliant until it isn’t. If you’re playing softer winter ground or you’re simply tired of watching approaches sit down like a sulking toddler, you might drift toward something with a touch more float. A two-place slip is often just the market taking a sip of something else.

Elsewhere, the Leopard 3 nudges up to #12 and the Zone SS jumps from #16 to #13, both tagged “Heating Up”. That pairing makes perfect sense: one is a confidence fairway for shaping lines, the other is the short-game security blanket you pretend you bought “for the wind”. The Envy, meanwhile, drops to #14 and the Luna to #15. It looks less like rejection and more like rotation. Putter loyalty is emotional, but it’s also seasonal and heavily influenced by whoever in your circle is currently holing everything inside C1.

Outside the limelight, the long-shot risers are properly chaotic. Doomsday’s Cataclysm rockets up 453 places to #197, with MVP’s Particle not far behind, up 423 to #174. That kind of leap usually smells like a restock, a sudden social buzz, or a meme that turned into a shopping basket. It’s always the same tale: people don’t buy because they need something. They buy because they can picture themselves as the sort of person who throws it.

Next Friday will tell us whether Mako 3’s little renaissance becomes a proper trend, or whether Berg X claws back its devotees with the stubborn charm of a disc that refuses to be ignored.

View the full Top 40 Golf Disc Rankings for this week.