Golf’s glamor girl Paige Spiranac has become one of the biggest and most influential names in the sport without ever playing on the women’s top professional circuit, the LPGA Tour. 

One of the most polarizing figures in the sport, like her or loathe her, it’s undeniable that the American has made her mark, taking social media by storm in her tiny, tight-fit skirts and low-cut tops. 

Rivaling Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy in social media popularity, the 29-year-old posts glamorous photos on the golf course and has racked up 3.7 million Instagram followers, earning herself the title of ‘world’s sexiest woman’.

She became famous when the website Total Frat Move wrote a post titled ‘The Whole World is About to Fall in Love With Paige Renee, This Smokeshow Golfer From SDSU [San Diego State University].’ She gained more than 50,000 followers in a matter of hours, according to ESPN.  She blew up on social media and didn’t return to finish her last semester of college, never receiving her degree, despite being just two credits short. 

Her overnight rise to fame garnered her an endorsement deal with equipment giant Callaway Golf and a sponsor’s invite to the Ladies European Tour’s Omega Dubai Ladies Masters, where she made her professional debut. But her professional golf career never really took off, making just one attempt to get her card to play on the LPGA Tour in her first Qualifying Tournament in August 2016 but ultimately not making it to the professional circuit. In 2016, she called it quits on her professional career at the age of just 23, instead turning her focus to her social media endeavors, later admitting the struggles of golf ‘broke’ her.