In August 2016, Spiranac competed in her first LPGA Qualifying Tournament, but did not earn a card to play on the professional circuit. She ended the season with $8,010 in winnings. A two-under-par final round produced another top-five finish at Trilogy, in October, and $800. In September 2016, Spiranac finished in a three-way second-place tie at Legacy in Phoenix, Arizona her second-best finish of the year, earning $935. Spiranac competed in the August/September 2016 CoBank Colorado Women's Open, placing ninth at one-under-par and earning $1,750. Also in July, she made the cut at the Scottish Open in the Ladies' European Tour. In July, she finished eight-over-par for a seventh-place finish at Walnut Creek in Mansfield, Texas, earning $600. At the Aliante Golf Club, in June, Spiranac finished 17th out of 52 golfers, her twelve-over-par score netting a $575 prize. She next finished ninth at Stallion Mountain, earning an $800 prize. In her third start, a sudden-death win at Scottsdale's Orange Tree Country Club over Hannah O’Sullivan, the then top-ranked amateur in the world, earned Spiranac her only tour win. Spiranac debuted on the developmental Cactus Tour at the Las Colinas club in Queen Creek, Arizona, in May 2016. In a 35-hole title match against Brittany Fan of the University of Colorado Boulder, Spiranac won, finishing nine strokes under par. In July 2015 the Colorado Golf Association hosted the 100th Colorado Women's Golf Association Match Play Championship at Raccoon Creek Golf Course. Her senior season ended with the Aztecs' first Mountain West Conference Championship in school history, which she described as "one of the absolute happiest moments of my life." Her 2013–2014 junior season resulted in Second-Team All-Mountain West Honors, along with one top ten finish at the Mountain West Championship. Improved success followed in the 2012–2013 season, with First-Team All-Mountain West honors, a fifth-place finish at the Cal Classic, a sixth at the Mountain West Championship, and nineteenth at the NCAA Central Regional Championships. Spiranac transferred to San Diego State for her sophomore year. Her best score of the year was a 73, shot twice during the Windy City Intercollegiate. In Spiranac's freshman year, 2011–2012, she competed in three events for the University of Arizona Wildcats during their golf season: the Windy City Intercollegiate, the Pac-12/SEC Challenge, and the Wildcat Invitational. This earned her a golf scholarship from the University of Arizona. In her early golf career, Spiranac won five tournaments in seven tries on Colorado's junior golf circuit, including the 2010 CWGA Junior Stroke Play, en route to becoming a top-20 junior player in the world, a top-5 college recruit, and a two-time West Region Player of the Year and first-team All-American as a member of the Future Collegians World Tour. Spiranac split time between Scottsdale, Arizona, and Monument, Colorado, as a home-schooled student, so that she would have time to train.
At 12, a twice-broken kneecap derailed her gymnastics dreams and pushed her towards golf. Spiranac grew up in Monument, Colorado, where she practiced gymnastics in hopes of competing in the Olympics.
Her older sister, Lexie, also received a college athletic scholarship, competing on Stanford's track team. Her mother, Annette, was a professional ballerina. Her father, Dan, was a member of the University of Pittsburgh Panthers football team, which won the 1976 national college championship. Spiranac was born in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, to a family of Croatian descent. She played Division 1 college golf at both the University of Arizona and San Diego State University, winning All- Mountain West Conference honors during the 2012––14 seasons, and leading the Aztecs to their first Mountain West Conference Championship in 2015. Paige Renee Spiranac ( / s p ɪ ˈ r æ n æ k/ spi- RANAK born March 26, 1993) is an American social media personality, golf instructor, and briefly a professional golfer.
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