Shamail Ahmed

The crazy rise and fall of Paige Spirinac’s Career Paige Spiranac is known to many as a professional social media influencer who uses her golfing persona to build her brand and popularity. And she has been caught under criticism for this very reason several times. And if you have had this perception about her then you are not the only one as there are tons of influencers who present themselves as athletes and have never competed in a professional event. But what you probably don't know is that Paige had a solid time in her golfing career. Before all of her instagram, podcasting and youtube stuff got viral, Paige was a dedicated golfer. Because of her social media presence most of us don't know that Spiranac started playing golf at a very young age. She started gymnastics at first but golf quickly became her number one sport. As a Junior Athlete She had a fine start in her junior years where she won 5 tournaments including 2010 CWGA junior stroke play. She was honored by her future collegians world tour as the west regional year twice. Won medals at the golfweek junior orange tree open and the golfweek junior trilogy in 2011. With these wins and several others, she immediately became a top 20 junior golfer in the world. Her junior year success continued in college where she again won multiple tournaments. In her freshman year She started off the season by competing in three events. Her best score was 73. As a College Athlete Although it was her sophomore year that got the most attention. The 2012-13 season earned her first team all mountain west honors, a fifth-place finish at the Cal Classic, a sixth at the Mountain West Championship, and nineteenth at the NCAA Central Regional Championships. She also managed to maintain a brilliant 76.25 stroke average in all seven events during her spring schedule. Everything was going pretty solid and what seemed to be a build up to a promising professional career. 2013-14 season resulted in her second team all mountains west honors. This was her second time in a row. With a 76.41 averaging stroke, she finished third on the junior squad. Came 10th at the MW championship. Was a top finisher for San Diego state university at the Peg Barnard Invitational. Was a contributing member when aztecs won their lone team title of the season. She also participated in the postseason play at the NCAA west regional championship for a second straight season. Finishing at 75th. Now her professional performance is something that has a varied history in different golfing platforms. This might be because of her polarizing relationship with various golfing federations. So I will only present the information that seems to be popular with multiple golfing sites. Due to her social media boom She was invited to the December's Omega Dubai ladies classic which is a ladies european tour. Although she lost, the event helped her gain a sponsorship deal. As a Limited Pro She made her professional debut in the Cactus Tour held at the Las Colinas Club in Queen creek. Her performance was pretty decent. Beating Hannah O’Sullivan in her third start. She finished 9th at th stallion mountain, 17th at the aliante golf club, 7th place finish at walnut creek and had the opportunity to play at the scottish opening the LET. She competed in the CoBank Colorado Women's Open and finished at night place with an earning of $1,750 Another notable professional appearance was in 2016 when she appeared in Arizona Women's open. She finished the event in 30th position. Now it was about time for Paige to earn her card for the LPGA. and she tried in 2016 right after her second european tour but sadly she couldn't get qualified for the ticket.. Although Paige was still young and had a massive time to learn and improve her skills. But She chose to leave the sport entirely. After failing to qualify for the LPGA a couple of times, Paige believed that she wasn't mentally strong enough. In a Q/A video for her fans, she finally talked about why she couldn't go pro and retired. “For me, it was never physical ability. It was always mental, I think it has gone better now that I just play it for fun, That’s why my game is even better than when I was playing pro.” Paige's life completely changed after the athlete started posting images and videos on the internet. She used her golf talents and created videos of her doing trickshots and uploaded them online. She quickly grew an audience and everyday found herself thousands of followers. This helped her get sponsorship deals and gave her a sigh of relief of not continuing a career in pro golf. Although her online presence always seems to spark controversies regarding the sexualization of golf. As it is quite known to everyone that LGPA has a strict dress code and anyone who doesn't follow it cannot participate. Now I don't think that what Paige does to tackle the rules of the LPGA is fair. Although her words and actions against the rules have embarked both positive and negative attention towards her. Manycurrent and retired players criticized her for her behavior…. and the online hate is just horrifying. Along with her social media profiles, Paige has recently started a podcast where she is very open about the several issues regarding the sports. For better or worse, Paige gave plenty of spotlight to the sport of golf, something that has been difficult with golf for many decades. And looking at this trend of golf in social media, we now know that it can be as entertaining as anything. I think that the unwanted hate towards the individual is quite bad and the media sites play a big part in that. I say this because wHenever you search Paige Spiranac on google the first news stories that come out are quite horrible. Something that shouldn't bother the athlete and nor should she respond to. Conclusion Paige Spiranac has found a fine career after golf. Thousands of athletes can't make it into the professional circuit once their college year ends and it gets even difficult for them to adapt to a different career. I believe that Paige is an inspiration for them all. Thanks for watching this video guys. Be sure to comment on your thoughts about the topic and if you have anything for me to cover. Also like and subscribe to the channel bye!!