Amateur Golfer
In her Cactus Tour debut, Spiranac finished in a tie for 14th place, winning a prize of just $100 out of the $12,080 purse. Even in women’s professional golf tournaments, that’s a microscopic prize. But Paige quickly turned things around, finishing in a third-place tie at her next event and qualifying for the Scottish Open (in which she finished 58th).
Then, at Scottsdale’s Orange Tree Country Club, Spiranac did something she’d never done before: She won a tournament. Facing Hannah O’Sullivan, then the top-ranked amateur in the world, Paige came out on top in a sudden-death victory. With the victory, she became one of the top-25 amateurs in the world.