Senior Cadence Burge finished the Kansas City Wide Open Disc Golf Pro Tour Event last week with the best finish of her career.
Cadence placed second with an event rating of 1014, finishing behind the second best player in the world. This was also Burge's ninth best event rating of all time.
"This is really cool stuff for a high school kid," Cadence's father, Armond Burge said.
Cadence began playing in disc golf tournaments when she was eight-years-old. Prior to her recent record finish, Cadence placed tenth out of 44 competitors at the Supreme Flight Open where she was filmed lived in the third round. Her two most notable wins are being the 2022 PDGA Amateur World Champion and the 2022 National Amateur Disc Golf Champion. She is currently ranked at 31 in the world.
"I am a very competitive person by nature, and disc golf is the perfect environment to control the kind of competition you have. I can participate in things that are more laid back while still playing for tags, money or bragging rights by going to leagues, playing against friends, or competing in smaller tournaments," Cadence said. "When I play in these smaller tournaments the atmosphere can be very friendly as I often know the people I’m with, but I still get a chance to feel that pressure of competition. Often times I’ll play in MA1 (Mixed Amateur 1 aka Advanced) or MPO (Mixed Pro Open) and play against Men. In the larger events, I get to play against all of the best women in the world and push myself to keep up with the best of the best. The constant grind of trying to better my game to keep competing with the field is the best part of disc golf."
After graduating from Artemis next month, Cadence plans to attend Arizona State University online and major in statistics.
"I have always been interested in math, but after taking a statistics class a few years ago I knew I wanted to learn more," Cadence said. "I plan to study full time while also traveling on the Disc Golf Pro Tour the next few years, then go from there."