{"id":404384,"date":"2025-11-25T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404384\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:40:15","slug":"paige-spiranac-got-death-threats-after-cheating-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404384\/","title":{"rendered":"Paige Spiranac got ‘death threats’ after cheating controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fallout from the Internet Invitational hit Paige Spiranac particularly hard.<\/p>\n

Breaking her silence Tuesday in a series of Instagram Stories, the longtime golf influencer \u2014 who was at the center of a cheating controversy <\/a>at the buzzy event that aired over the past month \u2014 said she has received \u201ctens of thousands of death threats\u201d in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last week and a half is probably the worst hate I\u2019ve ever received in the ten years of me doing this,\u201d Spiranac said. \u201cI\u2019m talking tens of thousands of death threats, people telling me to kill myself, the most vile, horrendous stuff you could ever say to an individual, that\u2019s been in my DMs to the point where we were discussing me having to potentially get a restraining order. I mean, it\u2019s serious stuff. It\u2019s not easy, and it hasn\u2019t been easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"PaigePaige Spiranac is speaking out following the controversy at the Internet Invitational. Instagram<\/p>\n

Spiranac, 32, had taken a break from social media, where she boasts more than five million followers between Instagram and X combined, to preserve her mental health.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know people are wondering why I haven\u2019t posted or why I haven\u2019t talked about it, I just needed to remove myself for my mental health,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing that I really struggle with is wanting to be liked and accepted, and I don\u2019t want anyone to ever dislike me, and I always try to do everything I can to have people like me, and so, it\u2019s just hard for me as a person with how I process things and then obviously the situation has not been easy either, but luckily, having a good support system, family around and just trying to stay distracted.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spiranac, while being followed by a number of cameras, brushed grass aside in the rough on the 9th hole, allowing Malosi Togisala to have a cleaner shot at the ball.<\/p>\n

After seeing the video, Spiranac\u2019s opponents confronted her on the green. She broke down in tears, claiming she did not know the rule, and since her team had lost the hole, the matter was eventually put to rest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am painfully, painfully embarrassed that I did not know this rule,\u201d she said in an Instagram Story. \u201c\u2026 I would never intentionally cheat. In all my years of playing golf, I have never been accused of cheating.<\/p>\n

\"PaigePaige Spiranac said she was \u201cpainfully embarrassed\u201d about not being privy to a rule at the event. x<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 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, learned now that it was a rules infraction, and I\u2019ll never do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spiranac\u2019s team ultimately lost the match \u2014 which included a separate cheating controversy involving Togisala \u2014 on the 18th hole in a dramatic ending.<\/p>\n

The event was run by Barstool and Bob Does Sports, with Dave Portnoy serving as the rules official throughout the event, which started with 48 golf content creators.<\/p>\n

It was taped over the summer before running over six separate episodes starting last month.<\/p>\n

Spiranac expressed gratitude Tuesday to those who have checked in during a turbulent time.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been an interesting week and a half, but I just want to thank everyone for reaching out, asking me how I\u2019m doing, all the support, really means so much to me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fallout from the Internet Invitational hit Paige Spiranac particularly hard. Breaking her silence Tuesday in a series…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[50703,1430,2246,62,1486,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-404384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-barstool-sports","9":"tag-golf","10":"tag-paige-spiranac","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-sports-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115612276001090899","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}