Paige Spiranac has built a career on visibility, but this week she reminded her audience that presence does not always equal peace of mind.
The golf personality, who once chased professional aspirations on the course, returned to social media with a post that quickly drew massive attention.
On Tuesday night, Spiranac shared a selfie wearing a plunging black dress and captioned it simply: “Sometimes I get to dress up.”
Within two hours, the post had generated more than 1.3 million views, a testament to the reach she still commands.
Before becoming a full-time content creator, Spiranac pursued competitive golf with serious intent.
At San Diego State, she earned All-Mountain West honors and helped guide the program to a milestone achievement, its first Mountain West Conference Championship in 2015.
Spiranac details her complicated relationship with golf and mental health
Yet success on paper did not quiet what she describes as an ongoing internal battle with the game itself.
“So I have a really toxic love-hate relationship with the game of golf. And I have talked about this ad nauseam. It was one of the reasons why I stopped playing golf professionally,” Spiranac said.
“I just could never get over the golf course anxiety. And I would just feel that my mind always won, and I was weak and I could just never overcome that feeling. There’s also something about the game of golf that makes you addicted to it but also makes you feel like the most worthless human being ever when you have a bad round. I’ve been working with a therapist on this. I love golf so much, but sometimes, I just can’t break through. It eats at me, and I know so many others can relate to this.”
While she ultimately stepped away from pursuing a professional playing career, golf remains central to her identity and content. The tension between passion and pressure, she has explained, has been difficult to untangle.
That struggle recently extended beyond the fairways and into her digital life. Spiranac acknowledged she had been less active online because of a prolonged period of anxiety and overthinking.
“I am in a bit of a funk, a rut if you will, and its not like a one or two day thing,” Spiranac noted. “This has been going on for a little bit. I feel like I’ve just been so in my head about everything and I’m just trying to work through it. I think that’s why I haven’t been posting as much because I am just overthinking everything and I just feel like my anxiety has taken control.
“I’m trying to push myself outside of that and post more and get back to what I was doing before. I feel like I haven’t been active because I’ve just been in my own head, in this kind of funky rut and we’re working through it.”
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