SPORTS
Explore Big Sky
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SECTION 2: SPORTS AND ENVIRONMENT & OUTDOORS
LPHS sports take new field pg. 20
First Montana Women’s Climbing Festival a success pg. 22
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to explore relisting the gray wolf pg. 24
Local golfer logs her best season ever on LPGA qualifying tour Dorsey Addicks travels cross-country in an Airstream on her journey to the pros BY GABRIELLE GASSER BIG SKY – Local pro golfer Dorsey Addicks is having her best season ever with a recent 14th place finish at the Four Winds Invitational in South Bend,
Indiana, earning her a current standing of 85 on the official Symetra Tour Money List. Addicks, 26, is both training hard and playing hard as she travels around the U.S. to compete in as many tournaments as she can, all while living out of her 20-foot Airstream trailer. To date, Addicks has already logged over 20,000 miles of driving across the U.S. in her golf career and she has been living out of her Airstream since January of 2021. According to her father, Rich Addicks, Dorsey “is the only one traveling and living full time out of a travel trailer on the Symetra Tour.” The Symetra Tour is the official qualifying tour of the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour and is currently in its 41st competitive season. The
nearly eight-month tour prepares the world’s best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour, a goal Dorsey has had her sights set on since college. As an elementary student in Atlanta, Georgia, Dorsey had half-days of school on Fridays and would spend her afternoons taking golf lessons with a group of boys. On family vacations to Big Sky growing up, Dorsey said golfing with her dad and brother solidified her interest in the sport but it wasn’t until her freshmen year of high school that she picked it up again. A desire to play golf in college led Dorsey to set aside her other two sports and dedicate the rest of her high school athletic career to golf. Her commitment paid off: Dorsey played on the Seattle University golf team, where she graduated in 2017 before going pro in 2018. Now, Dorsey uses Big Sky, where her parents reside, as her home base, traveling for six months at a time and returning home for six months. This nomadic lifestyle is not new to Dorsey, who spent a lot of time during
Dorsey Addicks is logging her best professional golf season ever and she currently ranks 85 on the official Symetra Tour Money List. PHOTO BY RICH ADDICKS
