By Fischer Genau DIGITAL MEDIA LEAD
After two rounds of blistering golf in the Reliance Matrix Championship in Las Vegas, Nevada last year, 30-year-old Dorsey Addicks looked down at her phone and saw she was sitting in first place. The following day, Addicks cooled down a bit, shooting one over par, but she finished the tournament strong and cruised to a top-five finish, netting herself $9,246 after four long days of golf.
“That top five in Vegas was awesome,” Addicks told EBS in a phone call, months later. “I played really good golf.”
Right now, Addicks is the only female professional golfer from Montana, and she’s preparing to compete in her ninth season on the Epson Tour, the official qualifying tour for the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Last year was one of her best as a pro, and this year, she hopes to finally qualify for the LPGA tour. But she also wants to have some fun.
“My word for the year is joy,” Addicks said. “Just trying to find as much joy in all the little moments on the road as I can. I think if I can accomplish that, the rest of the pieces will fall into place.”
Addicks was born in Atlanta, Georgia, but she spent much of her young life in Big Sky after her parents started building a house here in 1998. The family finally moved in 2013, and Big Sky has been her home ever since.
“It felt like I grew up in Montana, minus the fact that I didn’t go to school there,” Addicks said.
“We joke that had I grown up in Montana, I probably would have been a skier instead of a golfer.”
Addicks loves to ski, fly fish, and duck hunt with her dad in the offseason, and she says that most winters, when she’s away training, she can’t help but envy her family and friends skiing at Big Sky Resort.
“I don’t spend as much time [in Big Sky] as I would like,” Addicks said.
Each year, she spends January through February living in her Airstream in Saint Simons, Georgia, training and playing golf constantly. Then, the Epson Tour begins and she travels March through October, playing golf all over the country at different tournaments. All told, Addicks spends 23 weeks a year on the road.
In 2025, her dad Rich joined her for seven of those weeks, the two of them traveling together in his old Airstream, and both of her parents regularly join her on tour to caddy. Addicks likes to bring home with her as much as she can while competing, and she usually packs a telescoping spinner rod in her travel bag so she can fish between tournaments. Sometimes she’ll bring her golf friends with her in the boat, which she says is “just a kick.”
“It’s quite comical,” Addicks said.
Addicks started playing golf as a child in Atlanta, and she never stopped. After her family moved to Big Sky, she played at the Big Sky Golf Course constantly, and she eventually attended Seattle University on a golf scholarship. As a college student, Addicks became the 2015 Montana State Women’s Amateur Champion, and after graduating in 2017, she headed for the pros as the only female golfer from Montana.
“I love getting to represent the state of Montana,” Addicks said. “Montana is where my heart is and where home is, so any chance I get to represent it is a really cool opportunity.”
Although she doesn’t know what the next few years will bring, Addicks can’t imagine living anywhere but Montana.
“I think everyone from Montana knows, there’s just something about [it] that you just can’t shake off,” Addicks said. “Montana is where I want to live, where I want to be.”
After nine years competing on the Epson Tour, Addicks is still having fun. Her golf coach Jackson Koert, who works with her all offseason in Georgia, said that one of Addicks’ best qualities is her attitude.
“It’s very rare that you see her down, which I think is another superpower she has,” Koert said. “And I think that positive attitude that she has on the golf course carries over to other things, and she’s always fishing and wanting to go hunting and skiing. As a person, she’s phenomenal…and she’s wonderful to work for.”
Koert has been coaching Addicks for over five years, and he’ll be there with her on March 5 for the first tournament of 2026 in Atlantic Beach, Florida where Addicks is hoping to build off last year’s success. After a hot start and two top-30 finishes, Addicks didn’t score as well down the stretch in 2025, but she says that last season still felt like a win.
“The highs are really high and the lows can be very low out on the road,” Addicks said. “Professional golf is an interesting beast. I still really enjoy it, I’m still getting better every year, I’m still having fun out there and everything, but there’s definitely tough periods.”
Tim McKenna, a member of Big Sky Community Organization’s board of directors and a good friend of the Addicks family, said he’s never met someone who works as hard as Dorsey works at golf.
“She’s the hardest working person I know in any discipline,” Mckenna said. “That’s a tough field to break into, professional golf, but she really puts everything into it.”
If Addicks doesn’t make the cut at a tournament, she doesn’t get paid, and she said that as the season goes on, the pressure to make cuts, make money and improve her status for next year increases.
“Golf tells you that you suck every single day,” Addicks said. “I think you just have to have a really good maturity and understanding and ability to just roll with the punches and view golf as a roller coaster. Because sometimes all you can do is just hang on for dear life.”
She’s looking forward to the start of this new season, but looking further ahead, Addicks isn’t sure what’s in store. For now, she’s just glad to be along for the ride.
“I can’t see myself still golfing [professionally] in 10 years,” Addicks said. “I’d imagine by that point I’d like to settle down and know what it is to have a singular home, but I don’t know. If I’m still having fun and getting better and I can afford to do it, I’m gonna keep doing it. Just ride the journey as long as I want to and see where it takes me.”
