Golf influencer Paige Spiranak paid tribute The legend of the LPGA Jan Stephens on Tuesday at LA Golf Advertising.
Spiranac appearedNaked in a bathtub full of golf balls. She captioned the photo posted on Twitter with a simple two-word question: “Any balls?”
“She took inspiration from her own legend!” Spiranac added, via TMZ Sports. “We’re doing something special to honor her. I love recreating images of women who have inspired me and paying tribute. Jan is the OG.”
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Australian-born Stephens appeared naked in a pool full of golf balls in the 1980s. She was a 16-time winner on the LPGA Tour and won the Women’s PGA Championship, the US Women’s Open and the du Maurier Classic. In the year She was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2019.
She has been known as a sex symbol on the golf course and has made it clear that the description doesn’t always sit well with her, reports news.au.com.
Paige Spiranak attends the Berenberg Banquet on October 4, 2021 in Bedford Hills, New York. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Bernberg Invitational)
In the year After winning the US Open in 1983, she said, “I always thought it was a compliment (to be considered attractive).” “There are a lot of beautiful girls on the tour and I’m looking forward to it. People to say something about them. But you also have to win.
“The most important thing to me is golf because I don’t feel like I’m a beauty or a sex symbol. … But of course, I still care about my looks.”
Spiranak hasn’t had the same success in professional golf as Stephenson, but she’s still blazing her own trail on social media and impacting the game in a different way.
She explained why she said it in March He did not pursue a pro golf career. After success at San Diego State.
Texas Tech Childer was singled out as the main fan base that went viral during the tournament
“I’ve gotten to the point where I’ve stopped caring,” she said. “I wanted to have more of a social life. I wanted to have fun. I was tired of committing my life to something and not seeing the results. So when I played at SDSU, I lost interest in it.”
Jan Stephens It was put into practice around 1983 during a tournament. (Focus on Sports/Getty Images)
Jan Stephens He played in a tournament in 1977. (Focus on Sports/Getty Images)
She was set to become SDSU’s assistant golf coach, but suddenly became a social media sensation.
“I was playing really well and then my whole life turned upside down. “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 would never have gotten my degree, which is the crazy thing that I did. I never talk about that stuff. I was two credits short of getting my degree.
She revealed that when she went to Dubai to play, things were really normal.
“… I got an invitation to play in Dubai. I blew up there. I played golf professionally for a year, and my mind was exhausted. In golf, you fail more than you succeed, and I was doing that. In the public eye, everyone was like, ‘You gotta quit, you’re not good enough.’ He used to tell me.
“All these things, and I’ve been dealing with these years and years and years of mental issues, and trying so hard and coming up short, and I just broke. I honestly cracked. I broke and stopped. Maybe I’ll come back and play golf professionally again.” I do not know.”
Paige Spiranac offers a points bet during Melbourne Racing at Flemington Racecourse in Australia. (Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)
She currently works with several brands and attends events as a golf influencer. Spiranak is content with her current job, but said that if she had the choice, she would rather play effectively than make an impact.
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“If I had the choice to do what I do to play on the LPGA Tour, I would probably choose the LPGA Tour because that’s always been a goal I’ve wanted to achieve and a dream of mine — and I wish I’d explored that before I went full-time into media,” Spyranak said. But that’s not how life works.
Fox News’ Chantz Martin contributed to this report.
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