Paige Spiranac Has Regrets ‘Every Single Day’ Over Life-Choice She Made to Escape Financial Hardships

Paige Spiranac still remembers that conversation. Coming from a family of athletes, what she was about to tell her parents would shock them to the core. “If you put the work in and you dedicate your life to something, you WILL be successful’,” they had kept telling the golfer since she was young. However, exactly after a year of dabbling in professional golf, Spiranac’s worst fears seemed to have come true.

In the end, the very thing she loved “broke” her. Endless online harassment, cyberbullying, death threats, and most importantly, a failure to see her hard work getting reflected in her results, pushed her to her breaking point. The golfer had noted how the situation was making her crazy. Now add to that, the silent battle waging within herself, and the situation looked grim at best.

Like every athlete striving for the best, Spiranac would often find herself ruing over how her efforts weren’t reflecting on paper. With a silent pressure of succeeding in a family of athletes, the golfer pushed herself as hard as she could, only to fail again and again. “I just got to the point where I just stopped caring,” she said once—akin to a dagger for someone who’s played golf since she was 12 years old. But the desire in her heart was simple.

A fine balance between struggles, and happiness. “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.” The result?

Extreme mental exhaustion, and a condition where she was seemingly “cracked” and “broken”. The last straw came during a press conference in 2016 after Spiranac missed the cut at the Omega Dubai Ladies Masters—through tears she confessed about the “extremely cruel” comments she was being subjected to. The bullies weren’t just attacking her, but also her parents, her family, her friends, and anybody remotely in her circle. At one point, it got so bad that the golfer even started getting blackmailed, and receiving death threats, as confessed during the press conference. The harassment still didn’t stop, though, but only intensified, evident by a harsh tweet a few days later.

“Don’t be mean to her. She will cry all over the tv about how people only talk about her b–bs, while getting a playing exemption,” the user wrote in a since-deleted tweet. Spiranac’s response, though, was as graceful as it could get. “Maybe I cried because two minutes before I stepped on stage for the press conference, I was being blackmailed over stolen private property and people were threatening my life.” Soon after, a heartbreaking announcement hit the golf community like a wrecking ball…