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The topic of inequality in women’s and men’s golf has always been there. The debate about enhancing the status of women’s golf has been going on for some time. The former professional, Paige Spiranac, recently spoke about the same and made incredibly bold comments while expressing her opinions.

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Spiranac is among the renowned personalities in golf and has a huge fan base. She has 3.3million followers on Instagram, and Paige majorly resorts to uploading instructional golf videos on her Youtube channel. The retired professional has 267K subscribers on Youtube. Spiranac is famous for making bold and straightforward comments and expressing her blunt remarks on various topics.

Recently, she did the same in the latest episode of her renowned podcast Playing a Round with Paige Renee with her co-host Amanda Rose. Spiranac spoke about how The Match, which will take place between four of the NFL giants in June this year, could have been an opportunity to do something different.

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She said, “I don’t get it. I honestly don’t get it. I’m so sick and f***ing tired of people doing the same shit over and over and over again, like, give people an opportunity to do something different. They’re gonna have the same people commentating it’s going to be the same format over and over and over again.”

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She added, “It’s like you could get maybe a different crowd or different people watching. If you had like the Korda sisters, you could maybe have younger people come in young girls go and watch the it’s like, I just I’m so sick of it. I am so sick of people doing the same thing over and over again.”

Paige’s words prove how the mindset of the fans is changing. At the same time, it also demonstrates how people want a change in golf and want more women to participate in the sport. It is incredible to hear her words.

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Why did Paige Spiranac quit professional golfing?

Paige was among the rising stars in golf. The young prodigy even won her first event as a professional in June 2015. She won an event at the Orange Tree Country Club on the Cactus Tour. Spiranac carded a final round of 68 to beat Hannah O’Sullivan. However, in 2016, her career started to take a nosedive downwards. The 29-year-old could not make it through to the qualifying school.

As a result, Paige could not secure her card for the LPGA Tour. On top of that, she even broke into tears at the 2016 Omega Dubai Ladies Classic while talking about the amount of cyberbullying she receives. With all the factors adding up, the promising young talent quit professional golf. And in the end, she announced her retirement from golf in December 2016.

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