Prior to coaching at Columbia College, Butler was a standout golfer for the University of Missouri. She competed for the Tigers from 2011-2016. Butler concluded her career at Mizzou with the lowest season stroke average in program history, at 72.50, while earning SEC Second Team All-Conference honors. She recorded 4 runner-up finishes her senior year, while leading the team to NCAA Regionals at Shoal Creek. One of her runner-up finishes included Mizzou’s home tournament, The Johnnie Imes, where she fired the 2nd lowest 54 hole total in program history at 9 under par. Butler holds the lowest 18 hole round in program history with a 65, 7 under par. While Butler was at Mizzou, she earned the N4A Wilma Rudolph Student Athlete Achievement Award and was a finalist for the 2016 NCAA Woman of the Year Award.
Butler still competes in high level amateur tournaments. In 2018, she made it to the semifinals of the 32nd US Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship at Norwood Hills, where she lost to eventual champion, Shannon Johnson. In her 2019 run in the 33rd US Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, Butler finished 2nd in the stroke play portion with a 2 day total of 2 under par. She made it to the quarterfinals, where she lost to future champion, Ina Kim-Schaad. In the summer of 2019, Butler won the Missouri Women’s Amateur Championship and the Missouri Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship. She was later named the 2019 Missouri Golf Association Player of the Year and was also named to the 2018 and 2019 Global Golf Post First Team Women’s Mid-Amateur. In 2020, Butler earned the WIN for Columbia Gladys Stankowski Sportswoman of the Year honor.
Butler earned her Bachelors of Science degree in Biochemistry, while obtaining a minor in Business Management from Mizzou and then received her Master’s in Business Administration from Columbia College in 2019. She is a native of Palm Harbor, Florida, and attended Northside Christian School, where she helped lead her high school team to 4 consecutive state runner-up finishes.
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