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Paige Spiranac blasts golf culture: “A big boys club” that is “elitist, stuffy and exclusive”
Women’s golfer and social media personality Paige Spiranac has lashed out at the culture in golf, calling the sport “elitist”, “stuffy,” and “exclusive” – reasons why she feels she has never been welcomed into the game.
The 26-year-old who broke onto the scene as a college prodigy was speaking on her podcast Playing-A-Round, where she criticized the dress code of golf which she claims is hypocritical and the culture of the sport which she calls a “big boys club”.
“They call it a gentleman’s game but those guys definitely don’t act like gentlemen a lot of the time. There’s just so much hypocrisy in golf, and it’s so frustrating for me.
It’s this big boys club where if someone does something they’ll cover that up…but I wear a tank top, and I’m the s–t, and I’m the w—e, and I’m the one that’s ruining the game.”
Spiranac, who boasts over 2 million followers on her Twitter page, also revealed on the podcast that she was once rejected from helping a charity because of her cleavage.
“I wanted to help this charity out, and I wanted to give them free golf clubs. The guy wrote back and said, ‘We would love to but, because of the way our board members view you, you can’t help out’. I want to give back to these kids who don’t have anything, because I grew up not having anything, and I can’t even f—ing do that because of my cleavage.”
The 26-year-old who enjoyed a brief stint on Tour believes problems with inclusivity is one of the significant issues facing the sport, and how the game creates boundaries that don’t need to be there – chiefly in the fussiness over what you can and can’t wear on the course.
“We bond over having a common interest, and we all love the same thing … I don’t understand why it matters if you’re wearing a polo (shirt) and I’m not wearing a polo.
If a guy on tour wears shorts instead of pants, the world’s not going to end. In golf, people make all of these problems so serious, and it’s not serious.”
You can subscribe to Spiranac’s ‘Playing-A-Round’ podcast here.
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PGA Tour pro takes to social media during round after being left unhappy with ruling
During the of the inaugural Myrtle Beach Classic on the PGA Tour, Alejandro Tosti found himself in a precarious position around a bunker on the 7th hole on Sunday.
The Argentine was well out of contention, but when he approached his ball, he found it was wedged into the lip of the bunker. Feeling as though the ball was embedded, Tosti called over a rules official.
To his surprise, his request for relief for the embedded ball was denied.
Tosti took to his social media to post a video of the situation that he was able to record during the actual round!
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this. Alejandro Tosti got a ruling about an embedded ball he didn’t like yesterday in Myrtle Beach. He took out his phone and recorded the situation and lie
I’m not good with rules, but it looks like he has a point to me, it looks outside of bunker. pic.twitter.com/6ycXiAWMEp— Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1) May 12, 2024
The video was found on Tosti’s Instagram by Ryan French of “Monday Q Info” on X.
Tosti was able to salvage a bogey on the hole, but shot a final round 74 (+3) to finish in a tie for 63rd.
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Swing coach reveals why he recently told Brooks Koepka to ‘stop whinging’
At last month’s Masters Tournament, Brooks Koepka put forth a disappointing performance by his lofty standards.
The five-time major champion finished T45 a year after contending deep into Sunday of the 2023 Masters.
After the letdown, Koepka went to swing coach Pete Cowen, who he’s worked with for a decade, to ger him back on track.
Cowen spoke with The Telegraph, revealing what he said to the reigning PGA Champion.
“I gave him one of my old-fashioned b******ings when he was moaning to me about his putting. I told him to stop whinging and to just get to work on the issue. Again, that’s the sort of thing that triggers him. I gave him a b******ing before he won his first Major (the US Open) seven years ago.”
“He’s put in the hours and turned it around on the greens since then and with Valhalla being a big boys’ course, I can see him, at the very least, contending. If he wins, he’ll join (Sir Nick) Faldo and (Phil) Mickelson on six Majors and at his age that would be exciting. They’d probably still go on under-rating him, though.”
After the pep talk from Cowen, Koepka went on to win LIV Singapore.
As we enter the PGA Championship, three of the best players in the world, Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Brooks Koepka will all be coming off a victory in their previous start.
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Brandel Chamblee has a surprising new take on the PGA Tour-LIV stand-off
One of the more outspoken analysts throughout the LIV Golf vs. PGA Tour saga has been Golf Channel’s Brandel Chamblee.
This week, Chamblee reversed course, saying he believes the PGA Tour should strike a deal with Saudi Arabia’s Private Investment Fund (PIF).
Golf Channel Brandel Chamblee in his biggest about-face since the Framework Agreement on June 6, now says that making a deal with the PIF "is the better end of the bargain."
He says:
"The PGA Tour is in this pickle like it or not, but, do you want to compete with someone (LIV… pic.twitter.com/XDZaC1I6B8
— JCAGOLFReport (@JCAGOLFReport) May 10, 2024
“The PGA Tour is in this pickle like it or not, but, do you want to compete with someone who’s not going to go away, who can outspend you”.
“Every move they make that makes their tour better deletes your tour and causes more division within the tour. So the time is now, to Rory’s point about making a deal, I wouldn’t have said that a year ago… but it is the better end of the bargain.”
Chamblee’s new stance seems to be in line with that of Rory McIlroy, who reportedly wanted to rejoin the PGA Tour board with hopes of pushing a deal with the PIF closer to the finish line.
Chamblee will be in the booth for next week’s PGA Championship which has 16 LIV players in the field.
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