Popular golf influencer Paige Spiranac has warned her huge audience to be wary of fake accounts after a fan messaged her asking if it was really her playing an online game of Scrabble with them.
How many points for «no»?
Spiranac had to make it clear to his fans to be on the lookout for scammers and counterfeiters trying to take advantage of the audience he has created.
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Paige Spiranac tees off on the 15th hole during the AREA 313 Celebrity Challenge of the Rocket Mortgage Classic at Detroit Golf Club in Detroit, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. (Junfu Han, Detroit Free Press)
«I have fake accounts playing scrabble right now. This is getting crazy,» he wrote on his Instagram Stories, according to the New York Post on Tuesday. «Please block and report all fake accounts. Thank you!»
Spiranac has 3.7 million followers on Instagram and another 1.5 million followers on TikTok.
He has had to report fake accounts in the past and revealed this on a February episode of his podcast, «Playing A Round,» about two fake accounts reporting each other. She said that any account that has zero followers is fake and any account that communicates with the message «sweetheart» or «handsome» or the like is not her either.
Spiranac found success as a collegiate golfer at San Diego State, but failed to achieve a career at the LPGA level.
«I got to the point where I stopped caring,» he explained in March. «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 lost my desire for it.»
She was set to become SDSU’s assistant golf coach, but suddenly she became a social media sensation.
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Paige Spiranac in action during her practice round ahead of the 2015 Omega Dubai Ladies Masters on the Majlis Course at The Emirates Golf Club on December 7, 2015 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (David Cannon/Getty Images)
«I was playing very well and then my whole life was turned upside down,» Spiranac said. «I blew up on social media. I didn’t end up going back to being an assistant coach. I didn’t even finish my last semester of college. I never got my degree, which is such a crazy thing and I’ve never talked about it. I was two credits short of getting my qualification».
She noticed that things really changed when she traveled to Dubai to play.
«…Then I got the invitation to go play in Dubai. I blew up there. I played golf professionally for a year and I was mentally exhausted. In golf, you fail more than you succeed, and I was doing it in the public eye. Everybody told me, ‘You should quit. You should give up. You’re no good.'»
«All these things, and I was already dealing with these mental issues from years and years and years of trying so hard and coming up short, and I broke down. I honestly broke down. I broke down and stopped. I said, ‘Maybe I’ll come back,’ and I’ll never I’m back to try to play golf professionally again.
He currently works with various brands and attends events as a golf influencer. Spiranac said that she is happy with her current career, but given the choice, she would choose to play competitively rather than influence.
Paige Spiranac at the Bass Pro Shops Legends competition at Top of the Rock on Saturday, April 27, 2019. (Andrew Jansen/News Leader)
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«If I had the option to do what I’m doing to play on the LPGA Tour, I would probably choose the LPGA Tour because that was just a goal that I always wanted to achieve and it was a dream of mine and I wish I would have marked it off before I went on to work on the full-time media,» Spiranac said. «But that’s not how life works.»
Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.