‘Golf Is the Absolute Worst Place for Me to Be’: Paige Spiranac Once Got Emotional About Being ‘Unwelcomed’ to the Sport

Published 08/29/2022, 8:00 AM EDT

Paige Spiranac is reigning the internet with her instructional videos online. She has over 3.5 million followers and is the only golfer with the highest number of followers. In her podcast, she finally revealed the time when she was not welcomed to golf because of an unexpected reason. She felt humiliated and did not want to be part of the sport.

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The ex-golfer Paige Spiranac slammed golf for not being a place for everyone and said it is an exclusive sport meant for a few only. In her podcast, she expressed her love-hate relationship with golf and said, “Golf is elitist, it’s stuffy, it’s exclusive and I hate that because I am not that and I was never welcomed in and I’m still not welcomed in.”

She added, “It’s like my whole life I’m trying to find a place where I can fit in and that I feel comfortable and that I feel at peace with myself and I haven’t found that.”

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“Golf is the absolute worst place for me to be because I am the exact opposite of everything that a golfer should encompass, should be, and I’m not.”

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Spiranac shot at golf for having unnecessary rules about what a player should wear and what they shouldn’t. These rules and regulations make people nervous and make them feel like they won’t fit in and they don’t belong here. It is not a ‌commendable practice.

According to her, everyone in the sport is trying to be perfect. They are trying hard to be perfect, but she does not believe that the reality is the same. We know golf as a gentlemen’s game but most of the time, people are the opposite of it.

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Spiranac did not like how she was labeled as s**t just for wearing a tank top for the golf game. She is an internet sensation and she keeps posting her pictures online. Despite that, the comments flowing her way and calling her names are not justifiable.

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A Commerce graduate who turned her passion into her profession, Saumya is a Golf writer at Essentially Sports. Having developed the love for the sport at a very young age, she watched Tiger Woods and caught inspiration from his legacy early on. Apart from Woods, she shares great admiration for her country's players like Vishwanathan Anand and Neeraj Chopra.

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Jito Tenson

‘Golf Is the Absolute Worst Place for Me to Be’: Paige Spiranac Once Got Emotional About Being ‘Unwelcomed’ to the Sport

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