{"id":678692,"date":"2026-06-01T22:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678692\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T22:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T22:54:09","slug":"paige-spiranac-was-painfully-embarrassed-to-not-know-common-golf-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/678692\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Spiranac Was ‘Painfully Embarrassed’ To Not Know Common Golf Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paige Spiranac<\/a> is returning to The Internet Invitational this year.<\/p>\n

The popular golf<\/a> influencer, who has millions of followers across X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, will be playing in the now-annual golf tournament, which features some of the biggest personalities and creators in the online golf space.<\/p>\n

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Barstool Sports and Bob Does Sports announced that there will be a $4 million prize pool <\/a>for this year’s tournament. Spiranac is among those expected to play in the event, which generates millions of views on social media.<\/p>\n

But Spiranac’s inclusion last year sparked controversy.<\/p>\n

\"Paige<\/p>\n

Paige on course.Paige&sol;IG<\/p>\n

Spiranac was accused of “cheating”<\/a> in the final round. She was in the final $1 million match, a three vs. three scramble and alternate shot. Spiranac was caught stomping around in the high grass, helping out one of her teammates’ shots.<\/p>\n

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This is not allowed.<\/p>\n

When confronted, Spiranac admitted that she didn’t know the rule. She started crying.<\/p>\n

Spiranac was ‘painfully embarrassed’ to not know the rule<\/p>\n

Spiranac admitted she didn’t know the rule.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am painfully, painfully embarrassed that I did not know this rule,\u201d Spiranac said in an Instagram story at the time. \u201cI would never intentionally cheat. In all my years of playing golf, I have never been accused of cheating. There were so many cameras on me. To blatantly cheat with that many people around, that many cameras around, would be insane. So, I made a mistake. I learned now that it was a rules infraction, and I\u2019ll never do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the round, she confronted one of her opponents, Francis Ellis, about not knowing a different rule. Spiranac had said that anyone who played competitive golf should know the rules.<\/p>\n

Of course, that came back to bite her in a big way, as Spiranac was roasted for not knowing another common rule.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published by The Spun<\/a> on Jun 1, 2026, where it first appeared in the Golf<\/a> section. Add The Spun as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paige Spiranac is returning to The Internet Invitational this year. The popular golf influencer, who has millions of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[17527,427,39346,99],"class_list":["post-678692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-barstool-sports","tag-golf","tag-paige-spiranac","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}