Why the Discraft Zone Is Suddenly in Everyone’s Hand Again

Top-ranked discs on Friday January 9, 2026

The headline, based on DiscList weekly sales data for Jan 09, 2026, is delightfully simple. The Discraft Zone is back at #1.

It has hopped over the Buzzz, which drops to #2, and it has done it with the quiet confidence of someone who knows they will be needed at some point during the round. You might buy a fairway driver for hope. You buy a Zone for damage limitation.

That swap at the top is more than a coin flip. In January, plenty of players are effectively negotiating with the course. The Zone is the negotiator’s disc, very overstable, stubborn, and weirdly calming. When your grip is questionable and your timing is a rumour, a disc that refuses to surprise you feels like a bargain. The Buzzz, meanwhile, is still the longest-serving house favourite, and it remains the disc you recommend to someone who has asked for “one midrange to rule them all”. But “sensible” does not always win the weekly shop basket.

Elsewhere in the Top 10, there’s a pleasing lack of chaos. The Destroyer holds at #3 while “cooling off”, which is the disc golf equivalent of saying a Ferrari is “not as popular as last week”. The Pixel stays at #4 and “heating up”, looking more and more like the putter people buy when they want to feel modern without changing their personality. The Hex sits at #5, the Crave at #6, and the Luna at #7. All steady. All familiar. It’s the sort of line-up you get when players are buying replacements, not taking romantic risks.

The little movements are where the psychology hides. The Mamba nudges up to #11, and I love that. It is very understable, unapologetically so, and it flatters the thrower in a way that a meathook never will. When conditions are grim, people don’t just want control. They want a small, plausible miracle.

Then we have the Berg at #12, moving up while “cooling off”. This is perfectly on brand for a disc that feels like throwing a doorstop. Berg buyers are rarely swept up in hype; they are stocking up on reliability, like buying tins of beans before a storm. Europe, by the way, is still firmly in Berg country, with the Berg and Reko sitting comfortably at the top of the regional pile.

Outside the glamour spots, the week’s biggest climbs read like a rummage through the loft. The Katana rockets upward in the wider list, and the Latitude 64 Core keeps making a sharp four-week move. When older moulds and friendly mids surge, it usually means people are practising again. Or they’ve made a New Year’s promise to stop throwing 13-speeds into oak trees.

Next Friday, we’ll see whether the Zone keeps the throne, or whether the Buzzz politely takes its seat back. Either way, someone will buy another putter they absolutely, definitely needed.

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