Golf was Paige Spiranac first love But she gave up on professional golf dream : ‘I just broke’

Paige Spiranac still has nightmares about her professional golf career coming to an end. The golf influencer who turned pro for a year after playing at the University of Arizona and San Diego State remembers feeling devastated at the end of her brief pro career during the most recent episode of her “Playing A Round” podcast, according to the NY Post.

Spiranac began her golf adventure in quest of a “big change” after deciding to give up gymnastics at the age of 12.

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“From the first golf ball I ever hit, I dedicated everything I had to be a pro golfer,” she again added that her father introduced her to the activity after she briefly dabbled in tennis.

“I was homeschooled. I practiced every single day, morning until night. It was my only goal. I was a highly ranked junior golfer and then at 18 I had to make the decision to go to college or turn pro.”

Spiranac claimed that she spent a lot of time honing her golfing techniques as a child.

After being homeschooled for such a long time, Spiranac, who will turn 30 later this month, said she and her family felt that attending college was the best way for her to gain new experiences and play on a team.

Paige continued that she and her family had thought that playing collegiate golf would allow her to join a team, but she admitted that she finally started to become upset by her lack of progress.

“So many growing pains. I was burnt out of, I wouldn’t say golf, just dedicating my life to something and not really seeing the results. With gymnastics, it was hard because I was fighting injuries, and then with golf — golf is such an interesting sport because you can work out, eat right, practice and still not achieve your goals. That was something for me that I just couldn’t wrap my head around.”

“It also went against everything that my parents ever told me because I come from two athletes. They always said, ‘If you put the work in and you dedicate your life to something, you will be successful.’ But that just wasn’t happening with golf and I was driving myself crazy because I felt like I should be achieving at a much higher level. … I had everything to be a world class golfer, but I just couldn’t put it together and I didn’t know why. It was driving me actually insane.

She finally made up her mind to stop thinking about golf.

“I just got to the point where I just stopped caring. I wanted to have more of a social life. I wanted to have fun. I was tired of dedicating my life to something and just not seeing the result. So, when I was playing at SDSU, I just lost my desire for it.”

Spiranac made the decision to continue playing golf and pursue a professional career during the summer before her final semester at San Diego State.

She had planned to work on her game throughout her final semester as the assistant golf coach at the university.

Paige Spiranac’s plans, however, were altered once she gained notoriety on social media.

“I was playing really well and then my whole life flipped upside down,” She said. “I blew up on social media. I didn’t end up going back to be the assistant coach. I didn’t even finish my last semester of college. I never got my degree, which is something that’s so crazy and I’ve never talked about that. I was two credits short of getting my degree.

“… I then got the invite to go play in Dubai. I blew up there. I did one year of playing golf professionally and I was just mentally exhausted. In golf, you fail more than you succeed and I was doing that in the public eye. Everyone was telling me, ‘You should quit. You should give up. You’re not good.’

“All of these things, and I was already dealing with these mental issues of years and years and years of trying so hard and coming up short and I just broke. I honestly cracked. I broke and I just stopped. I said ‘maybe I’ll go back,’ and I’ve never gone back to try and play golf professionally again.

“It keeps me up at night to be honest because I feel like a failure and it’s really difficult for me to wrap my head around the fact that I never made it — not as a gymnast, not as a tennis player, not as a golfer. It’s been hard. It’s really hard because I felt like I could do it and there was just something that was missing.

“But instead of sitting down and feeling sorry for myself, I picked myself back up and threw myself into my media work. My background of just grinding, hard work has really helped me in my media career, because I work so incredibly hard — and the difference is here, the harder I work, the more successful I’ve become and I think that’s why it’s been a more fulfilling journey for me than professional golf… the outcome is positive.”

Since giving up her dream of being a professional player, Paige Spiranac has done fairly well for herself.

With a significant social media following that includes more than 3.7 million Instagram followers and 807,000 Twitter followers, she has emerged as one of golf’s top influencers.

Moreover, the ambassador for Points Bet has over 319,000 YouTube subscribers.

Paige Spiranac presently collaborates with a number of sponsors and participates in golf influencer events. Paige claimed that although she is happy with her present job, if given the opportunity she would prefer playing competitively to influencing others.

Paige, who was chosen for the cover of the 2022 Maxim “Hot 100” issue, collaborates with a number of companies and plays golf in tournaments all around the country.

OnlyPaige, a subscription-based content website, was introduced by Spiranac in January.

Paige Spiranac claimed that although though she is content with her current situation, she is still considering a professional career.

“If I had the choice to be doing what I’m doing to play on the LPGA Tour, I would probably pick the LPGA Tour because that was just a goal that I’ve always wanted to achieve and it was a dream of mine — and I wish I could’ve check that off before I went over into doing media work full-time,” Spiranac said. “But that’s not how life works.”

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