[1] Pearce had success as an amateur golfer and won the 1984 Queensland Foursomes Championship with Faye Payne.

[2] In 1988, she won the New South Wales Women's Amateur Championship, beating Tracie Hale 5 and 3 in the final.

In 2000, she finished tied 3rd at the Waterford Crystal Ladies' Irish Open, six strokes behind winner Sophie Gustafson of Sweden.

[citation needed] Pearce played on the LPGA Tour between 1999 and 2004, where she made the cut at two different majors, the du Maurier Classic and the Women's PGA Championship.

[6][7] Pearce retired from full-time professional golf after the 2004 season, and later became a prominent player in Australian senior women's tennis.