Paige Spiranac Fires Back at Critics Over Her Influence on Young Girls

Paige Spiranac has a new answer for anyone who questions whether she is a good role model for young girls.

It is not an apology.

It is not a defense of her content.

It is a blunt, unvarnished statement that she posted on her own YouTube channel, in a video titled “Hot Girls Hit Bombs Too feat. Cass Marie.”

“I’m also just a raging b****,” Spiranac said.

The comment came during a round she played with long-drive champion Cass Marie, a friend she first met at the 2007 Junior PGA Championship.

Nineteen years later, the two finally played a round together on Spiranac’s channel.

They finished 4 under par on a course both called tough.

Between shots, they talked about failed pro dreams, beverage cart stories, online scammers and dating in the golf content world.

And somewhere in that conversation, Spiranac addressed the criticism that has followed her for years.

Critics have long argued that Spiranac’s social media presence — which often includes revealing outfits and playful, sometimes provocative captions — sets a bad example for young girls who look up to her.

Spiranac has addressed this before, but usually in measured terms.

This time, she did not measure her words.

“If it upsets you then … I’m also just a raging b****,” she said.

The line was not aimed at any one person.

It was a response to the broader narrative that a woman who embraces her sexuality and her competitive edge cannot be a positive influence.

Spiranac has built a massive following by being unapologetically herself.

She has 4.1 million Instagram followers and a YouTube channel that regularly pulls in hundreds of thousands of views per video.

She is one of the most recognizable names in the YouTube golf space.

And she has been criticized for it almost from the start.

In 2024, during the first Internet Invitational, she was called out for pressing down long grass around her team’s ball during the final.

She insisted she had no idea she was breaking a rule.

Her team lost that hole anyway.

But the incident followed her into the second Internet Invitational this year.

Kevin Kisner, the PGA Tour pro who served as a rules official and advisor for the event, recently revealed on the Fore Play Podcast that he was completely wrong about Spiranac.

“To be honest, if I had one takeaway from the entire Internet Invitational, Paige Spiranac completely fooled me,” Kisner said.

“She’s smart as s—. She had it all figured out. She was playing chess when y’all were playing checkers.”

Kisner said he watched her read matchplay situations, figure out pairings and talk trash at exactly the right moments.

“I was sitting back there behind Dave and Big Cat one time and I’m like, ‘she’s running circles around us. Y’all got to watch out for her’,” he said.

That praise stands in stark contrast to the way Spiranac is often discussed in mainstream golf media.

She is frequently reduced to her appearance.

A post she shared on X on November 4, promoting her YouTube episode with Cass Marie, drew more than 9,500 likes.

It also drew comments like “Nice Cans” and “A beautiful course made so much better by magnificent cans.”

Spiranac did not respond to those comments.

But her “raging b****” line suggests she is well aware of the double standard.

Male golfers who talk trash are called confident.

Female golfers who do the same are called difficult.

Spiranac has spent years navigating that line.

She turned professional in 2016 but never made it on the LPGA Tour.

She has been open about the fact that her pro dreams did not work out.

In the YouTube video with Cass Marie, she talked about the pressure of being a junior golfer with a full-ride scholarship and the disappointment of falling short.

“I’m not a good first tee gal,” she said at one point. “I hate it.”

She also admitted that hitting the fairway is the hardest part of her game.

“I also am not that good off my driver,” she said.

That kind of honesty is part of why her audience trusts her.

She does not pretend to be perfect.

She posts her bad shots alongside her good ones.

She talks about the yips and the shanks.

And she does it all while wearing a low-cut top if she feels like it.

That combination — skill, honesty and sex appeal — is what makes her both popular and controversial.

Her critics argue that young girls who follow her will think they need to dress provocatively to succeed.

Spiranac’s response, essentially, is that those critics are projecting their own insecurities onto her.

She is not telling anyone what to wear or how to act.

She is just being herself.

And if that upsets people, she is okay with that.

“I’m also just a raging b****” is not a confession.

It is a declaration.

It says: I know what you call me behind my back.

I am owning it. Now what?

The video with Cass Marie is part of a series Spiranac has been running on her YouTube channel, where she plays rounds with different guests.

Previous guests have included Hannah, with whom Spiranac shot 8 under par — a score that Cass Marie was determined to beat.

“There is a side of me that is very competitive and I want to beat you and Hannah,” Cass Marie said during the round.

“What did you guys shoot? Eight under.”

“Yeah, that’s tough,” Spiranac replied.

Spiranac changed her usual routine to let her partner swing freely.

“Normally I let the guests go first because that’s just a nice thing to do on the channel, but since Cass hits it so long, I think the strategy today is going to be I go first, I try to get us in play, and then I free you up to just bomb it,” she said.