Paige Spiranac regarded again on her professional debut on the 2015 Dubai Girls Masters and it introduced again “brutal” recollections of when she was barely holding it collectively.
Throughout an look on the “Quiet Please!” podcast, Spiranac was requested by co-host Mel Reid, who’s a professional on the Girls European Tour, if she remembered enjoying in Dubai.
“Yeah, that was like the worst moment of my life,” mentioned Spiranac, who shot rounds of 77 and 79 to overlook the reduce on the Dubai Girls Masters. “I’ll never forget that.”
Spiranac — who graduated from San Diego State after which went professional in August 2015 — was a rising star on social media, the place she posted snapshots of her sultry golf outfits.
Many believed that an invite to the distinguished Dubai Girls Grasp was above her stage of play.
Spiranac instructed Reid and her co-host, golf persona Kira Dixon, that she heard gossip — together with false rumors that she “did sexual favors to get this invite” — from fellow feminine gamers on the Dubai Masters.
“I ended up going viral and this was back when people weren’t going viral all the time and I didn’t know how to handle it and my whole life got flipped upside down. I went from having 500 followers to 100,000 followers,” Spiranac mentioned.
“I received this invite to play an LET (Girls European Match). I had simply turned professional, I had by no means performed golf outdoors the nation. And everybody was like, ‘It’s low key, don’t fear about it. Nobody goes to know in case you play properly or not.’
“I present up and was doing hours of press, which I wasn’t ready for. I had no coaching to do that. And I’d say there have been a few women who have been actually supportive and who have been good, however the majority, it was brutal. I’d go on the vary and women would simply scatter. Nobody wished to hit subsequent to me.
“There were constant comments like ‘I did sexual favors to get this invite,’ and I was listening to it — and they would say [it] within earshots of me. It was tough. Not knowing what I was doing, it was my first pro event, it was really difficult. I just wanted to be liked and I played so bad. It was horrendous.”
Spiranac, who recalled being “badly’ criticized for her play, explained that she understands why she “ruffled some feathers” along with her sponsored invite to Dubai.
“You work your ass off, week in and week out… and here comes me and I just walk on in,” she mentioned. “I got the new Callaway bag and I had Lulu Lemon that week. I can see why it ruffled some feathers.”
Spiranac has since turned her large social media following right into a profitable influencer profession, together with model offers and modeling gigs.
The blonde magnificence, who has 4 million followers on Instagram and 1.6 million TikTok followers, made her Sports activities Illustrated Swimsuit debut in 2018.
Spiranac was introduced again as a “legend” for SI Swimsuit’s sixtieth anniversary concern final Might.
She graced the duvet of Maxim’s “Hot 100” concern in 2022.
