Why the Hex Is Suddenly Everywhere (and the Crave Isn’t) | Jun 19, 2026
Top-ranked discs on Friday June 19, 2026

Here’s what caught my eye this week, based on the latest DiscList rankings from Jun 19, 2026. The Buzzz remains #1, which at this point feels less like a sales result and more like gravity. People buy it because other people buy it, and because recommending a Buzzz is the disc golf equivalent of ordering a lager. Nobody gets laughed out of the group chat.
But the week belongs to the Axiom Hex. It’s jumped from #5 to #2, and that sort of rise rarely comes from one heroic throw. It comes from lots of small, slightly smug moments. You watch your mate shape a clean line through the trees with a Hex, it sits up politely by the pin, and your brain files it under “safe competence”. In disc golf, that feeling sells better than raw speed or exotic flight numbers. The Hex is stable enough to be trusted, glidey enough to feel clever, and new enough to feel like you’re not buying what your dad throws.
There’s another little psychological trick at play. Midranges are where we forgive ourselves. A new driver is a promise about who you’ll become. A new midrange is a quiet apology for what you actually are. So when a mid like the Hex starts trending, it’s often because a lot of players have collectively decided to stop fighting their form and start managing it.
Also barging into the upper tier, the MVP Glitch has floated from #10 to #6. The Glitch is interesting because it sells joy. It’s silly in the best way, like a disc designed by someone who got bored of being serious and decided to make a throw-and-catch toy that accidentally became useful. People buy it for warm-ups, field sessions, park throws, rounds with beginners, and then it quietly ends up being the disc they trust most inside awkward ranges. A purchase that begins as “this will be fun” often turns into “why am I scoring with this?”
Elsewhere, the Mako 3 nudges up to #5, doing what it always does, which is behave impeccably. The Destroyer sits at #4 and is heating up, because there’s always a fresh batch of players ready to believe they can tame a fast overstable driver this time. Sometimes they can. Sometimes the disc simply goes left with confidence and dignity.
The ugly fall, though, is the Axiom Crave. Down from #3 to #14 is not a wobble, it’s a proper slide. My hunch is that the Crave hasn’t suddenly become worse, it has simply become less discussed. Attention is a limited currency, and fairways tend to be bought when people are in a “let’s fix my tee shots” mood. This week, the mood swung to mids and touch. When players start buying control, they often start by buying comfort.
One more quiet signal: the Zone climbs to #15 from #18, because there’s no such thing as a course that doesn’t reward a dependable overstable approach. It’s the disc you buy after one too many flirtations with a soft anhyzer that never came back.
Next Friday will tell us whether the Hex is a moment or a new habit. And whether the Crave bounces back, or becomes that disc everyone still loves, but somehow stops buying.
- 1 – Buzzz Stable
- 2 ▲ Hex ↗ Heating Up Up 3 since Jun 12
- 3 ▼ Pixel Stable Down 1 since Jun 12
- 4 – Destroyer ↗ Heating Up
- 5 ▲ Mako 3 ↗ Heating Up Up 1 since Jun 12
- 6 ▲ Glitch ↗ Heating Up Up 4 since Jun 12
- 7 – Wraith Stable
- 8 – Berg ↗ Heating Up
- 9 ▲ Trail ↘ Stable Up 3 since Jun 12
- 10 ▼ Wave Stable Down 1 since Jun 12
View the full Top 40 Golf Disc Rankings for this week.




