Paige Pierce


Paige Pierce, from Plano, Texas, is the number one ranked and rated female professional disc golfer in the world. She is a five-time World Champion, and has been consistently ranked in the top four professional women between 2011 and 2019. In 2018 she achieved the highest player rating a woman has ever had at 978. In 2019 she broke her own record setting a new high player rating of 980, and broke that record again in July 2020 by reaching 988 rated. In November 2019 she announced a multi-year deal with Discraft.
Pierce began playing disc golf at the age of 4 with her father and his friends. She went professional in 2009 and started touring in 2010.
After winning the US Women's Disc Golf Championship in 2014, Pierce made history by becoming the first female to ever win the USDGC Performance Flight division. She narrowly missed qualifying for the Open division in 2015, missing a playoff for the fifth qualifying spot by two strokes. In 2017 at the first major championship of the year, The Aussie Open, she shot amongst the top 10 scores of all divisions earning her a coveted qualification for the Open Flight of the USDGC. In 2018 she once again earned a qualifying spot when she won the United States Women's Disc Golf Championship.

Professional career

In addition to Pierce's five World Championships, she also holds two Mixed Doubles World Championships, both with Jeremy Koling.

Majors (13)

Majors playoff record
YearTournamentOpponentResult
2012US Women’s Disc Golf ChampionshipCatrina AllenLost

National Tour (22)

NT playoff record
YearTournamentOpponentResult
2013Kansas City Wide OpenCatrina AllenLost to birdie on first extra hole
2014Texas State ChampionshipsCatrina AllenWon with par on second extra hole
2015Ledgestone Insurance OpenCatrina AllenLost to par on first extra hole
2016Beaver State FlingCatrina AllenLost to birdie on first extra hole

Summary

*As of January 1, 2017

Annual statistics

†At Year End

‡Includes DGPT Championship