By Rich Addicks
Three years ago, Dorsey qualified for the final stage of the LPGA’s Q-Series, a series of tournaments where at the last stage an LPGA card can be earned. But unfortunately she didn’t play that year. A chronic elbow issue needed to be addressed in the off-season first.
It was a hard decision, but the right one. Dorsey bet on herself that year, and in 2025 earned herself another opportunity to compete for LPGA status.
To get into the final stage of the Q-Series, a player first needs to finish in the top 50 and ties at the “Qualifying Stage” tournament, held every year in Venice, FL. Dorsey finished tied for 22nd (out of 196 players) with a score of -6 (71-71-73-67), punching her card to the finals. Her final round of 67 was one of her best rounds of the year.
Although Dorsey didn’t earn her LPGA card this year, she proved to herself she belonged and came away from the finals with a boat load of confidence and motivation as she heads into the 2026 Epson Tour season.
Dorsey’s 2025 Epson Tour season was her best yet.
Her best event of the year came early in the season in Las Vegas at the Reliance Matrix Championship at the Spanish Trail Country Club, where she finished tied for 5th with a score of -9 (68-68-73-70). It was a new event and course for 2025, where approach shots and elevation adjustments mattered most. After Day 2, Dorsey was atop the leaderboard!
In an interview after Day 2, Dorsey told the Epson Tour communications staff. “I’ve been playing really good golf, been hitting it well, struggled last week. It was kind of an anomaly, I just really didn’t hit it well and then it just got in my head, and I couldn’t get out of it. But this is the kind of the golf I’ve being playing for a while now and just was waiting for it to show up on the Epson Tour. So, you know, going into the weekend, just continuing to play the same golf.”
By the end of the season, Dorsey had secured full status on the Epson Tour for 2026, finishing 68th on the points list (top 80 get full status).
Earlier in the year, Dorsey also played in a USGA Women’s Open qualifier at the Druid Hills Golf Club in Atlanta, and played well enough to earn “alternate” status, one stroke from a chance to play in the US Open at Erin Hills.
Not everything in Dorsey’s life is about golf. She skied her home mountain, Big Sky, during the off-season, got in some duck hunting in Mississippi, goofed around on her October birthday as a pumpkin head with her fellow goofball and pro golfer Lindsey McCurdy Peek, baked a lot of sourdough bread, and taught herself how to make a killer cappuccino.
Dorsey is full of optimism and excitement for the upcoming Epson season. Stay tuned.
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