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Paige Spiranac is talking about dropping it low in her latest viral Instagram clip.
The “it”, in this case, is golf scores as Spiranac wanted to know her followers’ lowest ever score for a round.
That’s something Spiranac would know a lot about. The golf influencer was a former collegiate star at San Diego State University. She helped lead the Aztecs to their first ever Mountain West Conference championship in 2015.
So, why didn’t Spiranac go pro? That’s a complicated answer.
“So many growing pains,” she revealed on her Playing A Round With Paige podcast. “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.”
Spiranac quickly switched gears and became one of the first and undeniably the biggest golf influencers. She now has over 3.8 million followers on Instagram and was the Maxim “Hot 100” leader in 2022.
Oh, and she says her lowest round ever is a 63 for those still wondering. Not half bad.