October 11, 2023 • 38 mins
After sharing a few thoughts about Lexi Thompson's upcoming PGA Tour debut at the Shriners Children's Open, Paige gives all of her attention to your questions! She covers everything from her experiences working with other golf influencers and how much professional golfers make to how big her team is behind the scenes and long-term goals for her business.
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This is Playing Around with Paige Renee.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Hello everyone, welcome back to Playing Around podcast. I'm your host,
Paige Renee, and we are going to do a fun
solo episode today, focusing a lot on some Q and A.
But first off, we have some big golf news that
we have to talk about. Lexi Thompson has accepted a
sponsor invite to play in the Shriners Open in Las Vegas.
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I think that this is incredible for Lexi, for women's golf,
for the growth of the game. There's always a lot
of hate when it comes to sponsor invites. We have
seen this time and time again with Steph Curry, Tony Romo,
Michelle Weeon aka Lexi, myself. When I played in the
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europe Tour event, that was actually a big catalyst in
my career because there was so much controversy around my
sponsor invite. People were saying that I didn't deserve to
be there. I was taking someone's spot that was more deserving.
That I got the sponsor invite because of my social
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media following and my brand and it had nothing to
do with my golf game, and so there was a
ton of discussion around that. And again we see that
continuously all the time. The common theme is that this
person is taking a spot from someone else who truly
deserves it. I think it's really interesting how people only
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get frustrated about this when it's someone that they feel
is not deserving of the spot, but in reality, they're
actually boosting the tournament, which means that the people are
getting more more sponsors, more eyes on it, more money,
and it's making the event better for everyone else. And
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that person is taking so much heat when it's actually
to the benefit of whichever tour that person is on,
all the players, the sponsors. I mean, it's it's incredible
how people don't think through this. Every single tournament on
any tour has a certain number of sponsor invites, and
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that can vary. It could be two, three, it could
be eight. It really depends on the tournament, but there
are always sponsor invites and you don't hear about it
often because maybe it's a local pro or a junior
that's up to the tournament decide on who they want
to bring into this event. Again, like the events they
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cause the most hate were people saying that this person
doesn't deserve it. They actually deserve it the most because
they're bringing so much attention to the event. But who
really does qualify as deserving it. You can say that
it's pros that are on the brink of maybe getting
their card or maybe making it, and Lexi, since she
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is not obviously going to be playing on the PGA Tour,
is taking that spot. There are so many opportunities for
people to qualify. You can Monday qualify, you have all
these mini tours. One spot is really not going to
make or break. And again it comes down to eyes
on the event. We're kind of in a slow off
season of golf and most people are probably not thinking
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too much about the event, and now everyone's talking about it.
Now it comes to Lexi Thompson. She isn't playing the
best golf of her career. In the last two weeks.
She has actually been playing a lot better. She has
been in a spotlight. There was a little bit of
a controversy surrounding her when it came to the Solheim
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Cup where she hit a poor chain. She was asked
about it in a press conference, she did not want
to really talk about it. Some people were saying that
she came off as a little bit aggressive, a little
bit snippy, and she has kind of dealt with some
of these controversies throughout her entire career. Something that's really
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interesting about Lexi Thompson is that I remember her growing
up in the spotlight, and she has dealt with this
her entire career, and I don't think they'll realize how
difficult it is to play under those circumstances for such
a long time. I mean, she was a phenom when
she was ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. I remember her winning
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events at twelve, and I'm playing against her, and I'm like,
I have no shot. She hits it so far and
so good makes everything. She's been so good for so long,
and so for people to say that she doesn't deserve that,
She's been in the spotlight for such a long time,
and I can't think of someone who is more deserving
of this opportunity. She has the link, So I don't
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think that the course will overpower her. Obviously it comes
down to short games, since that has been an issue
with her game in the last couple of weeks. But
it looks like she's chipping better. She's been working on it,
she's been gaining confidence. But I'm shocked that people were
actually asking this question, what teas will she play? She's
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going to play from the tips like the men. She's
gonna wear pantschaes of all all the rules and they're
not going to allow her to play up And then
it brought in the conversation of how far do the
women play on the LPGA Tour. A lot of people
on social media think that the women on the LPGA
Tour play from the front ees, which people call the
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ladies teas. It's not the lads tees, it's fronties. But
they're actually playing from sixty four thousand's the shortest upwards
towards sixty nine sixty eight, So they're playing courses that
are quite long and very challenging. Most of them have
hybrids long irons into the greens, but not Lexi. Lexi
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is one of the longest hitters on tour. So I
do think in a place like Vegas, where it can
be firm and fast and the weather looks really nice,
it'll be warm, so when it's warm, the ball goes farther.
But I think she didn't play quite well. I've never
had an issue with women playing against the men. I
know again that can frustrate some people. We saw it
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with Anaka and Michelle Wee and Lexi Thompson. A lot
of people thought that for this tournament that Nellie Corda
should have gotten the opportunity over Lexi, but it's quite
daunting to go into this event you already know that
all eyes are going to be on you. It's a
ton of pressure. You have to play well under really
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extreme circumstances, and I don't think a lot of players
would want to put themselves in that situation. So I
commend Lexi for pushing herself outside of her comfort zone.
And I think that's something that we can all learn
from this, is that you have to continuously push yourself
to be better, and you have to do things that
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are scary. You have to do things every day that
are scary. And if you don't do that and you
don't get outside your comfort zone, you're never going to
advance in life. You're never going to see what you're
truly capable of. I know that it's comfortable being in
a safe space and you can be successful doing that,
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but you're never going to reach your full potential if
you don't continuously take steps in a positive direction. And
when I say in a positive direction, it doesn't mean
every time that you step outside your comfort zone that
you're going to succeed. I have failed a ton of times,
but I know what that feels like it's not as
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bad as you think it's going to be. And every
time I've done that, I've learned something and I've become
a better person, a more well rounded person, a more
successful person, because I'm constantly trying to make myself uncomfortable
and it can give me a lot of anxiety. And
I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. But
don't let the fear of failure stop you from being
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the best version of yourself. So let's all cheer on
Lexi Thompson this week. I think it's going to be
a great week for golf and I'm all about doing
anything that we can grow the game. And I think
a lot of eyes will be on this event, which
is really exciting. I will also be out there. I
have a bit of travel coming up, going to Vegas,
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to Colorado, to Virginia, potentially Miami, then back to Miami.
Then I'm all over the place, but wrapping up this
year and I can't wait to keep you guys updated
through the podcast. Let's get into some Q and A.
I haven't done a solo Q and A pop a
little bit, so I thought it'd be interesting to do
another one. The first question is do you ever wish
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you could have your nanability, an animinity, Oh my.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
God, ananominity, anonymity, Oh my gosh, do you ever wish
that you could be anonymous?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Or oh okay, hold on, is it an is it
an I know it's anonymous or being, but is it
a nanimity or is it anonymility? Yeah, if any time
becomes to the successful tries again, we're gonna go with
a nanability, anon ability, anonyminity. We're gonna go with that
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basically being anonymous. That's what we're trying to get it.
So the question is, do you ever wish you could
have your anonymity back? It sounds like in Finding Nemo
when they're trying to say, okay, off track, anonymity back?
Or do you truly embrace your celebrity status? Yes? So
in previous years I had the best job ever because
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my whole presence was on social media, and so I
could live a very normal life when I went outside,
and I never had anyone really recognize me unless I
was on the golf course or like in a sports
setting where people knew I was going to be there.
But if I was just going out getting groceries, flying
I very rarely had people come up to me. I
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would say, after I got number one on maxim, things
started to shift slightly. So that was in that was
last year, Yeah, last year, and I would show up
to the airport sweat, snow, makeup, and all of a sudden,
people started like asking for pictures and you know, coming
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up to me. And so now it happens quite a bit,
which is exciting because that's a sign of growth in
my career and so I don't want to say I
want to get rid of that because then obviously my
career is not growing anymore. And so that is really important.
It's an important part of what I do. I have
such a sense of community through my social media platforms,
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and so it actually is quite nice when people come
up to me. And I've never truly had to deal
with that many bad encounters when people do come up
to me. Of course, there are always those situations, and
we've had to really amp up security to take care
of that, and I would say that's probably the hardest
part about this, is having full time security and trying
to deal with safety issues. But now that's handled. I
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really do like when people come up to me and
we can talk about, you know, the connection that we've
made online, and I really do feel like we're friends
and not followers, and so it is really nice to
put a face to the people who are following me.
So no, I don't mind it. And it's obviously a
a geege of the progression of my career. How old
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are you?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm thirty this year. It's quite nervous to turn thirty,
especially because of the industry that I'm in and the
brand that I've created, that most people have this perception
of when you hit a certain age, which is honestly
like past twenty five, that you are, you know, expired milk,
and they have to take you off the shelf and
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replace you with something that's newer, younger, fresher, better. And
so I was nervous that even when I was starting
doing this, I always felt like I had a short
amount of time to capitalize because of when you hit
a certain age and just the perception around that within
this industry. And I've hit thirty and I feel like
I look better than ever, I feel better than ever,
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I am more confident than I've ever been, and that
I'm just slowly now hitting my stride for the rest
of my career, and so I have changed my tune
on it. I feel that I have such a long
runway and then I can continue to grow. And so
if there are any women listening to this right now,
risks to get older, don't be It's the best thing ever.
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And I feel like I'm truly coming into my own
now in twenty years time. What do you hope to
be doing? Yeah, it's fine. I am a very goal
oriented person, and so I think of the goal in
front of me and how to accomplish that. I never
really think like big picture, like what I want to
be doing. I also think because in my career there
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really hasn't been a runway of Okay, this is what
you need to do, and then this is the next step,
and this is the next step, and then you get
a promotion here, and then there's been no guide of
how to successfully do this. I've been paving this path
as I continue to grow, and so one that's really exciting,
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but it's also difficult to see what your career could
look like in ten twenty years because there isn't a
consistent path, or there isn't someone who has done this
before where I can look to and be like, Okay,
this is where I want to go. So in that sense,
I don't really know what my career can look like
in twenty years, or what I want my life to
really look like in twenty years, and so I do
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think really short term, especially because social media is such
a changing landscape and I don't know what platforms are
going to be popular in the next five years, or
the trends or you know what's going to be happening there.
So it really is the wild West when it comes
to longevity, and I think that is something that is
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a bit scary about what I do, is that I
don't know what this could look like. But that's also
the most exciting part is that I have a blank
canvas to create whatever I want to create. And I
think that's what I love to do most is I
love to build businesses, and I love to I love
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to create, and I love to help other people. And
so if I can put all of my passions together,
what would that look like? And I think we're figuring
that out now. There's so many different pillars of my
business and I don't really talk about what my business
looks like all that often because I think people tune
out and that's something that's not really that interesting to them.
But I am finding more and more that people are
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interested in that and they're all they're interested in how
I have built my business and when I talk about
the different pillars. So there's partner work that I do,
and so you see that throughout all the sponsorships where
I'm an ambassador, and then you have events and we're
doing a ton more events coming up. And then there
is like all the social work that I do, so
giving back to charities, doing some really fun work with
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the AJAGA, which I'm excited to expand on that more
with you guys in the near future. Giving back is
something that is so incredibly important. So I don't know
exactly what in the next twenty years my life will
look like, but I know that there will be a
big charitable component to my business and my career and
that will always be going especially Junior Golf. I would
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not be in the position that I am and now
if it wasn't for the organizations like an SWT and AJGA.
There was a IJGT. There were all these different tours
and the people that I met and the lessons that
I learned, especially within the AGGA. They teach you how
to care for the golf course and how to feel
divots in ballmarks, and you have to write think you
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notes after every single tournament, and they make you give speeches,
and they really prepare you for what life could look
like after college if you want to play professionally, and
so many helpful lessons that if you don't want to
play professionally, that this will help you with whatever you
decide to do. And so I really want to be
involved in that for as long as they possibly can,
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and that's kind of a goal of mine. I've always
like a dream of mine has been to open a
really amazing golf course with a thriving junior program where
kids who don't have a lot of money have access
to amazing coaches and equipment, everything they need to be successful.
And it's okay if you don't have all the money
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to support that. So through scholarships or funds or whatever
we can do. Because I didn't grow up with a
lot of money, and I had to clean the pro
shop to get range balls, and so there were times
where I felt like I was behind a bunch of
my other peers. Because golf is a very expensive sport,
and most people who are successful have grown up with
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access to amazing facilities and coaches, and most of their
parents can just provide them with whatever they need. And
so if you don't have that, you do feel like
you're lacking and you're behind the eight ball. So I
want to do something where I can provide. So I
ac say that's something in the next twenty years that
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your driver own average? So this changes everywhere that I go.
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A lot of people don't realize that going to different
states with different altitudes and whether affects how far your
ball flies, and so in Colorado I could be averaging
to eighty and then in San Diego I get hit
it to forty or sing with Florida and then so
it really does change wherever you go. But I normally
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just say if someone asks me that, I say around
two fifty is what my average is. How much money
a year do you earn as a golfer. So being
a professional golfer, you have a crazy runway of how
much money you can make. And we're seeing that right
now with all of these discussions of live in PGA
Tour and all the players complaining about money, which is
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insane because they're multi millionaires and they're making so much money.
But when I played professionally, and this is the not
sublamorous side of golf, is I played around twenty five events.
I made money in all of them but two, and
I barely broke even. So, for example, I did a
European Tour event, the Scottish Open, and I made the
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cut and lost money. So you don't make that much
until you get to a certain level of this game.
And even for the women, it's still I was looking
at the last tournament they played in Texas and the
winner got two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, which again
is don't get me wrong, that's a lot of money.
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But when you compare it to what the guys are
making on the PGA Tour, it's so incredibly different. And
I know that the LPGA Tour has done a really
great job in the last couple of years of raising
the persons and they're doing everything they need to be doing.
But sometimes you do see that and you're like, wow,
that's that's a stark difference. So you can be making
a ton of money and you could be barely scraping
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by I think though, within golf there are so many
different avenues that you can go where you can make
a great living. You can be a teaching professional, which
are very long hours, it's very strenuous, and that again
takes you a long time to get up to the
point where you are making a lot of money. But
you can work in marketing, you can you can do
all of these things within golf and make a great,
great career for yourself, or you can do what I do,
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and you can go into influencing and content creation. And
again there's so many things. So if you are looking
for a career in golf, there are plenty of opportunities
and there is a lot of way to make a
great living for yourself. Do you prepare all the content
only by yourself or is there a whole crew behind
the scenes. I think people would be quite surprised to
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look at my team. We are small but mighty, and
I have a manager, I have an agent, I have
a content manager, and then there is a manager to
help the content manager, and so that's all part of
my agency, and so they will help me secure deals,
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plan my itineraries travel with me, so they do a
lot when it comes to actual content. So I come
up with all of the ideas, I will have someone
film it. Most of the time it's my mom, and
then I will edit and I post. So all of
my social media camps I run myself, and when it
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comes to the content, it's everything that I've thought of,
and so it really is a very small team. I
know people who have a bunch of camera and lights
all of this and they're doing what I'm doing. But
I've always felt that you need to never lose yourself
throughout this process, and we see that a lot with
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creators where they start out, and the reason they gain
followers is because of their relatability and that they're authentic.
And as they gain more followers, they gain more sponsors,
and which means more money. And before you know it,
you have so many people in your ear, you have
so many people telling you things that you should or
shouldn't be doing, and you just lose touch with reality.
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And so I've always kept my team extremely small, and
I've always had full control over everything that I do
in post, and I am the CEO of my own
media company, and so I always want to have as
much control as possible. Probably an issue I probably shouldn't
have so much control because I'm running on fumes right now,
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But that's okay, because again it's important for me to
post it and to write the caption and to respond
back to people and to see what their reaction is,
because again, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm
doing if it wasn't for you guys being engaged in
my content. And to be engaged means I have to
be interactive with you and see what you guys are,
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what you like and what you dislike and what's going on.
And I love doing that. That's what I love most
is creating content. And that's one thing that I never
want to stop doing. I never want someone to run
my own accounts. I always want to run my own accounts,
and I always want to be the one coming up
with the ideas and because that's me, and you guys
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follow these accounts because it has it, because it's things
that I'm passionate about, and so I never want to
lose that. And so yeah, even though it's a lot
of work and it can be difficult at times, it's
fun to do, like for example, and sometimes they're good
ideas and sometimes they're bad ideas. I had this idea,
so I have only Paige, which is my subscription site,
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and I was like, you know, what would be really
fun is that going to do one Halloween costume every
single day in October. So that's thirty one costumes. And
I told my team, I'm like, hey, I'm gonna execute this.
I'm gonna do it. And then I had and I
didn't really think about all the logistics that went into
what this looked like. So I had to then go
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and buy thirty one Halloween costumes. I don't think people
realize that I bought thirty one Halloween costumes. The site
called me and they're like, this doesn't seem right. You're
gonna have to call in and verify that you actually
want all of these costumes. It with a lot of money.
I spent so much money on it, and I then
had to shoot them all almost all before October because
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I'm traveling and so I wouldn't be able to shoot
it every single day, and so I had to do
two chunks sixteen and fifteen. And it was so much
fun because I loved dressing up, but it was just
oh and then I had to take the pictures and
I had to pick the pictures that I wanted, and
then i'd d the pictures and then I had to
make sure everything was perfect with them, and so that
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it takes so much time. And then on top of that,
obviously I have all my other obligations that I have
to do, and so there really is so much that
goes into this, and so it's really great when I
get positive feedback that you guys are loving it, which
we are seeing. So head over to only page right
now if you want to see all the Halloween costumes,
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Because like I put work into doing it, but I
do it because you guys like it, and I do
it because it's fun and I love doing stuff like that.
Most famous golfer he's met Tiger Woods for sure. That
was also the only person I've ever gotten really nervous
to meet too. Most of the time, I don't get
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that nervous when I meet famous people, but I was
shaking to meet him because it's Tiger Woods. It's insane.
From your time involved in golf, which player, male and
female do you admire the most lydia Co is one
of the nicest people you will ever meet, and she
is nice to everyone around her. We were at PHG
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at the same time, and this is when she was
really at the height of her career. She could not
have been nicer and gone out of her way to
not only me and the other players who were there,
but the staff, every single person. She went out of
her way to be nice to. And I've always admired
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someone at that stature who still takes time to remember
people's names and to go out of their way to
say hi, to lighting, to catering to There's so many
people on set too. I think there are so many
people there, and she was nice to every single one
and went out of her way to have conversations with
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every single person there. Max Homa is another player where
he is such a great player an even better person.
The same what goes for his wife Lacey. They're just
so great. But I think a lot of players are
hesitant to really get involved in social media because it
can't take away from your golf. And I say that
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because if you do say something.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Wrong or you're.
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Always gonna get hate always, it doesn't matter if you're
the nicest person ever. Like Max Holmi, he still even
gets hate from some tweets he will put out and
he still continues to do that because he understands the
importance of connecting with the audience who are supporting you.
And he has such an amazing fan base now because
he's invested his time into connecting with other people. And
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I've really admired that, and the fact you can balance
that while playing golf at the highest level is truly incredible.
Why don't you collaborate with more golf influencers? So I
really haven't done that many collaborations. I did one with
Bob does Sports and you guys love that. The thing
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that's really different though, about the Bobda Sports crew is
that they are so incredibly genuine and sometimes within the
influencer world you have people who think that they are
more important than they really are and they're very difficult
to deal with. So I've always just taken the rep
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of like, I don't want to deal with that, So
I'm gonna stick to myself and I'm gonna stick to
what works for me. And I think I have a
bit of a reputation within the golf influencer space as
being a bit aloof where I am not the person
that would collaborate as much as others. And it's not
because I don't want to. I think it's because I've
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had so many bad experiences with some influencers that I
just don't think that it's worth it. It's also just
this big, gossipy kind of high school where everyone knows
everything about everyone and there's always rumors being spread, and
so I get enough hate online that I just don't
want to subject myself to that, and so I've always
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just kind of stuck to myself. But after working with
the Bombda Sports guys, I realized that, you know, it
is important not only for it's just good for the
game of golf if we continue to collaborate, and so
after that, they really opened my mind, and I've been
reaching out to more creators. I did a collaboration with
Garrett Clark GM Golf. He's part of Good Good, and
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that also went really well. He's a really good kid,
bright future, good, great player, just such a genuine person.
I think that's kind of the theme of this podcast,
is genuine because again, like I said, there are just
so many people out there who are so fake, and
so I'm open to working with influencers, but there's been
times recently where I've gone up to some golf creators
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and they've just completely blown me off, like completely blot
me off. I went up to someone recently at an
event and I was like, hey, I love your work.
I love to collaborate with you sometime, and he looked
at me, smiled, and then walked away. I was like
standing there and it was in front of a ton
of people, and I was so embarrassed, and I was like, yeah,
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this is why I don't do it. But I have
found some really good people within the industry. Like I said,
I cannot say enough kind amazing words about the bobdas
Sports crew. They are even better in person. They are
exactly how they are online as they are in person.
That's another big thing too, is that a lot of
the creators are not the same in person in real
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life as they are online, and so it like really
throws you through a loop because you get to know
people through their accounts, and then you meet them in person,
You're like, what, who is this person? And that's always
so incredibly shocking. But hopefully we'll be doing more collaborations
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with the Baptis Sports guys because you guys do really
enjoy that, and I enjoy the company. They're amazing, amazing people.
The next question beneath that was do you ever feel
disrespectful from other pro golfers male or female? More of
them the influencers. Honestly, I've just been through some really
weird encounters with the golf media people and influencers and creators.
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I think that there is a divide on how people
perceive me, and I think this goes back to what
I was just saying, where the way people know me
is through my social media presence, and that's obviously a
part of me, but it's not all of me, And
I have created a persona a character, and I play
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it up and I've really leaned into that in the
last couple of years because it's fun and I enjoy it,
and it's like you're playing a character, you feel like
an actress. And I do try to amplify everything that
I'm doing, because you know, you just don't want to
be doing the same thing over and over again. You
have to keep evolving. And so I think people see
this character and they think that's who I am twenty
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four to seven, and then a lot of time they'll
meet me and they're like, oh, you're good at golf.
Oh you're actually down to earth. They're like, oh, you're
like a nice person, or oh your tits are now
like it's like quite shocking, and it's like, yeah, like
because I am a person with many different sides of me,
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and that's just not who I am twenty four to seven,
So yeah, of course I'm gonna be a little bit different.
And so I think when people don't take the time
to get to know me, or they just see what
I post on social media, you can see a bit
of hesitation when I first meet them, and then after
some time they're like Okay, you're not half bad. Or
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maybe some of them don't like me. I don't know,
but like I said, I really do keep to myself.
Let's do one more question then I will wrap it
up for you guys. Best Fairway would or hybrid on
a budget. So you guys already know what I'm going
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doesn't fit them, and so they end up wasting so
much money trying to find a club that works for
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There's also this misconception about Club Champion where they try
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if you're just saying I want the best equipment that
in prices in an option, it's probably gonna be more
expensive because sometimes like the more expensive shafts are better,
not always the case. And so if you're telling them
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this is my budget, I want a fairway wood within
this price frame. Can you do this for me? They're
gonna find it and it's not gonna be that much
more expensive. I did a video where I went and
I got a driver off the rack and it was
six hundred and fifty dollars, and then getting fit, it's
like not that much more expensive. And so you're already
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spending so much money for a club that doesn't even
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But if you strip it down, you can still find
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This is Playing Around with Paige Renee.
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Hello everyone, welcome back to Playing Around podcast. I'm your host,
Paige Renee, and we are going to do a fun
solo episode today, focusing a lot on some Q and A.
But first off, we have some big golf news that
we have to talk about. Lexi Thompson has accepted a
sponsor invite to play in the Shriners Open in Las Vegas.
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I think that this is incredible for Lexi, for women's golf,
for the growth of the game. There's always a lot
of hate when it comes to sponsor invites. We have
seen this time and time again with Steph Curry, Tony Romo,
Michelle Weeon aka Lexi, myself. When I played in the
(01:59):
europe Tour event, that was actually a big catalyst in
my career because there was so much controversy around my
sponsor invite. People were saying that I didn't deserve to
be there. I was taking someone's spot that was more deserving.
That I got the sponsor invite because of my social
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media following and my brand and it had nothing to
do with my golf game, and so there was a
ton of discussion around that. And again we see that
continuously all the time. The common theme is that this
person is taking a spot from someone else who truly
deserves it. I think it's really interesting how people only
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get frustrated about this when it's someone that they feel
is not deserving of the spot, but in reality, they're
actually boosting the tournament, which means that the people are
getting more more sponsors, more eyes on it, more money,
and it's making the event better for everyone else. And
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that person is taking so much heat when it's actually
to the benefit of whichever tour that person is on,
all the players, the sponsors. I mean, it's it's incredible
how people don't think through this. Every single tournament on
any tour has a certain number of sponsor invites, and
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that can vary. It could be two, three, it could
be eight. It really depends on the tournament, but there
are always sponsor invites and you don't hear about it
often because maybe it's a local pro or a junior
that's up to the tournament decide on who they want
to bring into this event. Again, like the events they
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cause the most hate were people saying that this person
doesn't deserve it. They actually deserve it the most because
they're bringing so much attention to the event. But who
really does qualify as deserving it. You can say that
it's pros that are on the brink of maybe getting
their card or maybe making it, and Lexi, since she
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is not obviously going to be playing on the PGA Tour,
is taking that spot. There are so many opportunities for
people to qualify. You can Monday qualify, you have all
these mini tours. One spot is really not going to
make or break. And again it comes down to eyes
on the event. We're kind of in a slow off
season of golf and most people are probably not thinking
(04:36):
too much about the event, and now everyone's talking about it.
Now it comes to Lexi Thompson. She isn't playing the
best golf of her career. In the last two weeks.
She has actually been playing a lot better. She has
been in a spotlight. There was a little bit of
a controversy surrounding her when it came to the Solheim
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Cup where she hit a poor chain. She was asked
about it in a press conference, she did not want
to really talk about it. Some people were saying that
she came off as a little bit aggressive, a little
bit snippy, and she has kind of dealt with some
of these controversies throughout her entire career. Something that's really
(05:18):
interesting about Lexi Thompson is that I remember her growing
up in the spotlight, and she has dealt with this
her entire career, and I don't think they'll realize how
difficult it is to play under those circumstances for such
a long time. I mean, she was a phenom when
she was ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen. I remember her winning
(05:40):
events at twelve, and I'm playing against her, and I'm like,
I have no shot. She hits it so far and
so good makes everything. She's been so good for so long,
and so for people to say that she doesn't deserve that,
She's been in the spotlight for such a long time,
and I can't think of someone who is more deserving
of this opportunity. She has the link, So I don't
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think that the course will overpower her. Obviously it comes
down to short games, since that has been an issue
with her game in the last couple of weeks. But
it looks like she's chipping better. She's been working on it,
she's been gaining confidence. But I'm shocked that people were
actually asking this question, what teas will she play? She's
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going to play from the tips like the men. She's
gonna wear pantschaes of all all the rules and they're
not going to allow her to play up And then
it brought in the conversation of how far do the
women play on the LPGA Tour. A lot of people
on social media think that the women on the LPGA
Tour play from the front ees, which people call the
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ladies teas. It's not the lads tees, it's fronties. But
they're actually playing from sixty four thousand's the shortest upwards
towards sixty nine sixty eight, So they're playing courses that
are quite long and very challenging. Most of them have
hybrids long irons into the greens, but not Lexi. Lexi
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is one of the longest hitters on tour. So I
do think in a place like Vegas, where it can
be firm and fast and the weather looks really nice,
it'll be warm, so when it's warm, the ball goes farther.
But I think she didn't play quite well. I've never
had an issue with women playing against the men. I
know again that can frustrate some people. We saw it
(07:34):
with Anaka and Michelle Wee and Lexi Thompson. A lot
of people thought that for this tournament that Nellie Corda
should have gotten the opportunity over Lexi, but it's quite
daunting to go into this event you already know that
all eyes are going to be on you. It's a
ton of pressure. You have to play well under really
(07:57):
extreme circumstances, and I don't think a lot of players
would want to put themselves in that situation. So I
commend Lexi for pushing herself outside of her comfort zone.
And I think that's something that we can all learn
from this, is that you have to continuously push yourself
to be better, and you have to do things that
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are scary. You have to do things every day that
are scary. And if you don't do that and you
don't get outside your comfort zone, you're never going to
advance in life. You're never going to see what you're
truly capable of. I know that it's comfortable being in
a safe space and you can be successful doing that,
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but you're never going to reach your full potential if
you don't continuously take steps in a positive direction. And
when I say in a positive direction, it doesn't mean
every time that you step outside your comfort zone that
you're going to succeed. I have failed a ton of times,
but I know what that feels like it's not as
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bad as you think it's going to be. And every
time I've done that, I've learned something and I've become
a better person, a more well rounded person, a more
successful person, because I'm constantly trying to make myself uncomfortable
and it can give me a lot of anxiety. And
I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. But
don't let the fear of failure stop you from being
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the best version of yourself. So let's all cheer on
Lexi Thompson this week. I think it's going to be
a great week for golf and I'm all about doing
anything that we can grow the game. And I think
a lot of eyes will be on this event, which
is really exciting. I will also be out there. I
have a bit of travel coming up, going to Vegas,
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to Colorado, to Virginia, potentially Miami, then back to Miami.
Then I'm all over the place, but wrapping up this
year and I can't wait to keep you guys updated
through the podcast. Let's get into some Q and A.
I haven't done a solo Q and A pop a
little bit, so I thought it'd be interesting to do
another one. The first question is do you ever wish
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you could have your nanability, an animinity, Oh my.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
God, ananominity, anonymity, Oh my gosh, do you ever wish
that you could be anonymous?
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Or oh okay, hold on, is it an is it
an I know it's anonymous or being, but is it
a nanimity or is it anonymility? Yeah, if any time
becomes to the successful tries again, we're gonna go with
a nanability, anon ability, anonyminity. We're gonna go with that
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basically being anonymous. That's what we're trying to get it.
So the question is, do you ever wish you could
have your anonymity back? It sounds like in Finding Nemo
when they're trying to say, okay, off track, anonymity back?
Or do you truly embrace your celebrity status? Yes? So
in previous years I had the best job ever because
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my whole presence was on social media, and so I
could live a very normal life when I went outside,
and I never had anyone really recognize me unless I
was on the golf course or like in a sports
setting where people knew I was going to be there.
But if I was just going out getting groceries, flying
I very rarely had people come up to me. I
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would say, after I got number one on maxim, things
started to shift slightly. So that was in that was
last year, Yeah, last year, and I would show up
to the airport sweat, snow, makeup, and all of a sudden,
people started like asking for pictures and you know, coming
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up to me. And so now it happens quite a bit,
which is exciting because that's a sign of growth in
my career and so I don't want to say I
want to get rid of that because then obviously my
career is not growing anymore. And so that is really important.
It's an important part of what I do. I have
such a sense of community through my social media platforms,
(12:09):
and so it actually is quite nice when people come
up to me. And I've never truly had to deal
with that many bad encounters when people do come up
to me. Of course, there are always those situations, and
we've had to really amp up security to take care
of that, and I would say that's probably the hardest
part about this, is having full time security and trying
to deal with safety issues. But now that's handled. I
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really do like when people come up to me and
we can talk about, you know, the connection that we've
made online, and I really do feel like we're friends
and not followers, and so it is really nice to
put a face to the people who are following me.
So no, I don't mind it. And it's obviously a
a geege of the progression of my career. How old
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are you?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
So?
Speaker 2 (12:57):
I'm thirty this year. It's quite nervous to turn thirty,
especially because of the industry that I'm in and the
brand that I've created, that most people have this perception
of when you hit a certain age, which is honestly
like past twenty five, that you are, you know, expired milk,
and they have to take you off the shelf and
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replace you with something that's newer, younger, fresher, better. And
so I was nervous that even when I was starting
doing this, I always felt like I had a short
amount of time to capitalize because of when you hit
a certain age and just the perception around that within
this industry. And I've hit thirty and I feel like
I look better than ever, I feel better than ever,
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I am more confident than I've ever been, and that
I'm just slowly now hitting my stride for the rest
of my career, and so I have changed my tune
on it. I feel that I have such a long
runway and then I can continue to grow. And so
if there are any women listening to this right now,
risks to get older, don't be It's the best thing ever.
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And I feel like I'm truly coming into my own
now in twenty years time. What do you hope to
be doing? Yeah, it's fine. I am a very goal
oriented person, and so I think of the goal in
front of me and how to accomplish that. I never
really think like big picture, like what I want to
be doing. I also think because in my career there
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really hasn't been a runway of Okay, this is what
you need to do, and then this is the next step,
and this is the next step, and then you get
a promotion here, and then there's been no guide of
how to successfully do this. I've been paving this path
as I continue to grow, and so one that's really exciting,
(14:45):
but it's also difficult to see what your career could
look like in ten twenty years because there isn't a
consistent path, or there isn't someone who has done this
before where I can look to and be like, Okay,
this is where I want to go. So in that sense,
I don't really know what my career can look like
in twenty years, or what I want my life to
really look like in twenty years, and so I do
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think really short term, especially because social media is such
a changing landscape and I don't know what platforms are
going to be popular in the next five years, or
the trends or you know what's going to be happening there.
So it really is the wild West when it comes
to longevity, and I think that is something that is
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a bit scary about what I do, is that I
don't know what this could look like. But that's also
the most exciting part is that I have a blank
canvas to create whatever I want to create. And I
think that's what I love to do most is I
love to build businesses, and I love to I love
(15:47):
to create, and I love to help other people. And
so if I can put all of my passions together,
what would that look like? And I think we're figuring
that out now. There's so many different pillars of my
business and I don't really talk about what my business
looks like all that often because I think people tune
out and that's something that's not really that interesting to them.
But I am finding more and more that people are
(16:09):
interested in that and they're all they're interested in how
I have built my business and when I talk about
the different pillars. So there's partner work that I do,
and so you see that throughout all the sponsorships where
I'm an ambassador, and then you have events and we're
doing a ton more events coming up. And then there
is like all the social work that I do, so
giving back to charities, doing some really fun work with
(16:32):
the AJAGA, which I'm excited to expand on that more
with you guys in the near future. Giving back is
something that is so incredibly important. So I don't know
exactly what in the next twenty years my life will
look like, but I know that there will be a
big charitable component to my business and my career and
that will always be going especially Junior Golf. I would
(16:56):
not be in the position that I am and now
if it wasn't for the organizations like an SWT and AJGA.
There was a IJGT. There were all these different tours
and the people that I met and the lessons that
I learned, especially within the AGGA. They teach you how
to care for the golf course and how to feel
divots in ballmarks, and you have to write think you
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notes after every single tournament, and they make you give speeches,
and they really prepare you for what life could look
like after college if you want to play professionally, and
so many helpful lessons that if you don't want to
play professionally, that this will help you with whatever you
decide to do. And so I really want to be
involved in that for as long as they possibly can,
(17:39):
and that's kind of a goal of mine. I've always
like a dream of mine has been to open a
really amazing golf course with a thriving junior program where
kids who don't have a lot of money have access
to amazing coaches and equipment, everything they need to be successful.
And it's okay if you don't have all the money
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to support that. So through scholarships or funds or whatever
we can do. Because I didn't grow up with a
lot of money, and I had to clean the pro
shop to get range balls, and so there were times
where I felt like I was behind a bunch of
my other peers. Because golf is a very expensive sport,
and most people who are successful have grown up with
(18:26):
access to amazing facilities and coaches, and most of their
parents can just provide them with whatever they need. And
so if you don't have that, you do feel like
you're lacking and you're behind the eight ball. So I
want to do something where I can provide. So I
ac say that's something in the next twenty years that
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A lot of people don't realize that going to different
states with different altitudes and whether affects how far your
ball flies, and so in Colorado I could be averaging
to eighty and then in San Diego I get hit
it to forty or sing with Florida and then so
it really does change wherever you go. But I normally
(19:54):
just say if someone asks me that, I say around
two fifty is what my average is. How much money
a year do you earn as a golfer. So being
a professional golfer, you have a crazy runway of how
much money you can make. And we're seeing that right
now with all of these discussions of live in PGA
Tour and all the players complaining about money, which is
(20:16):
insane because they're multi millionaires and they're making so much money.
But when I played professionally, and this is the not
sublamorous side of golf, is I played around twenty five events.
I made money in all of them but two, and
I barely broke even. So, for example, I did a
European Tour event, the Scottish Open, and I made the
(20:40):
cut and lost money. So you don't make that much
until you get to a certain level of this game.
And even for the women, it's still I was looking
at the last tournament they played in Texas and the
winner got two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, which again
is don't get me wrong, that's a lot of money.
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But when you compare it to what the guys are
making on the PGA Tour, it's so incredibly different. And
I know that the LPGA Tour has done a really
great job in the last couple of years of raising
the persons and they're doing everything they need to be doing.
But sometimes you do see that and you're like, wow,
that's that's a stark difference. So you can be making
a ton of money and you could be barely scraping
(21:23):
by I think though, within golf there are so many
different avenues that you can go where you can make
a great living. You can be a teaching professional, which
are very long hours, it's very strenuous, and that again
takes you a long time to get up to the
point where you are making a lot of money. But
you can work in marketing, you can you can do
all of these things within golf and make a great,
great career for yourself, or you can do what I do,
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and you can go into influencing and content creation. And
again there's so many things. So if you are looking
for a career in golf, there are plenty of opportunities
and there is a lot of way to make a
great living for yourself. Do you prepare all the content
only by yourself or is there a whole crew behind
the scenes. I think people would be quite surprised to
(22:06):
look at my team. We are small but mighty, and
I have a manager, I have an agent, I have
a content manager, and then there is a manager to
help the content manager, and so that's all part of
my agency, and so they will help me secure deals,
(22:26):
plan my itineraries travel with me, so they do a
lot when it comes to actual content. So I come
up with all of the ideas, I will have someone
film it. Most of the time it's my mom, and
then I will edit and I post. So all of
my social media camps I run myself, and when it
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comes to the content, it's everything that I've thought of,
and so it really is a very small team. I
know people who have a bunch of camera and lights
all of this and they're doing what I'm doing. But
I've always felt that you need to never lose yourself
throughout this process, and we see that a lot with
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creators where they start out, and the reason they gain
followers is because of their relatability and that they're authentic.
And as they gain more followers, they gain more sponsors,
and which means more money. And before you know it,
you have so many people in your ear, you have
so many people telling you things that you should or
shouldn't be doing, and you just lose touch with reality.
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And so I've always kept my team extremely small, and
I've always had full control over everything that I do
in post, and I am the CEO of my own
media company, and so I always want to have as
much control as possible. Probably an issue I probably shouldn't
have so much control because I'm running on fumes right now,
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But that's okay, because again it's important for me to
post it and to write the caption and to respond
back to people and to see what their reaction is,
because again, I wouldn't be able to do what I'm
doing if it wasn't for you guys being engaged in
my content. And to be engaged means I have to
be interactive with you and see what you guys are,
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what you like and what you dislike and what's going on.
And I love doing that. That's what I love most
is creating content. And that's one thing that I never
want to stop doing. I never want someone to run
my own accounts. I always want to run my own accounts,
and I always want to be the one coming up
with the ideas and because that's me, and you guys
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follow these accounts because it has it, because it's things
that I'm passionate about, and so I never want to
lose that. And so yeah, even though it's a lot
of work and it can be difficult at times, it's
fun to do, like for example, and sometimes they're good
ideas and sometimes they're bad ideas. I had this idea,
so I have only Paige, which is my subscription site,
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and I was like, you know, what would be really
fun is that going to do one Halloween costume every
single day in October. So that's thirty one costumes. And
I told my team, I'm like, hey, I'm gonna execute this.
I'm gonna do it. And then I had and I
didn't really think about all the logistics that went into
what this looked like. So I had to then go
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and buy thirty one Halloween costumes. I don't think people
realize that I bought thirty one Halloween costumes. The site
called me and they're like, this doesn't seem right. You're
gonna have to call in and verify that you actually
want all of these costumes. It with a lot of money.
I spent so much money on it, and I then
had to shoot them all almost all before October because
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I'm traveling and so I wouldn't be able to shoot
it every single day, and so I had to do
two chunks sixteen and fifteen. And it was so much
fun because I loved dressing up, but it was just
oh and then I had to take the pictures and
I had to pick the pictures that I wanted, and
then i'd d the pictures and then I had to
make sure everything was perfect with them, and so that
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it takes so much time. And then on top of that,
obviously I have all my other obligations that I have
to do, and so there really is so much that
goes into this, and so it's really great when I
get positive feedback that you guys are loving it, which
we are seeing. So head over to only page right
now if you want to see all the Halloween costumes,
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Because like I put work into doing it, but I
do it because you guys like it, and I do
it because it's fun and I love doing stuff like that.
Most famous golfer he's met Tiger Woods for sure. That
was also the only person I've ever gotten really nervous
to meet too. Most of the time, I don't get
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that nervous when I meet famous people, but I was
shaking to meet him because it's Tiger Woods. It's insane.
From your time involved in golf, which player, male and
female do you admire the most lydia Co is one
of the nicest people you will ever meet, and she
is nice to everyone around her. We were at PHG
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at the same time, and this is when she was
really at the height of her career. She could not
have been nicer and gone out of her way to
not only me and the other players who were there,
but the staff, every single person. She went out of
her way to be nice to. And I've always admired
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someone at that stature who still takes time to remember
people's names and to go out of their way to
say hi, to lighting, to catering to There's so many
people on set too. I think there are so many
people there, and she was nice to every single one
and went out of her way to have conversations with
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every single person there. Max Homa is another player where
he is such a great player an even better person.
The same what goes for his wife Lacey. They're just
so great. But I think a lot of players are
hesitant to really get involved in social media because it
can't take away from your golf. And I say that
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because if you do say something.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Wrong or you're.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Always gonna get hate always, it doesn't matter if you're
the nicest person ever. Like Max Holmi, he still even
gets hate from some tweets he will put out and
he still continues to do that because he understands the
importance of connecting with the audience who are supporting you.
And he has such an amazing fan base now because
he's invested his time into connecting with other people. And
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I've really admired that, and the fact you can balance
that while playing golf at the highest level is truly incredible.
Why don't you collaborate with more golf influencers? So I
really haven't done that many collaborations. I did one with
Bob does Sports and you guys love that. The thing
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that's really different though, about the Bobda Sports crew is
that they are so incredibly genuine and sometimes within the
influencer world you have people who think that they are
more important than they really are and they're very difficult
to deal with. So I've always just taken the rep
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of like, I don't want to deal with that, So
I'm gonna stick to myself and I'm gonna stick to
what works for me. And I think I have a
bit of a reputation within the golf influencer space as
being a bit aloof where I am not the person
that would collaborate as much as others. And it's not
because I don't want to. I think it's because I've
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had so many bad experiences with some influencers that I
just don't think that it's worth it. It's also just
this big, gossipy kind of high school where everyone knows
everything about everyone and there's always rumors being spread, and
so I get enough hate online that I just don't
want to subject myself to that, and so I've always
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just kind of stuck to myself. But after working with
the Bombda Sports guys, I realized that, you know, it
is important not only for it's just good for the
game of golf if we continue to collaborate, and so
after that, they really opened my mind, and I've been
reaching out to more creators. I did a collaboration with
Garrett Clark GM Golf. He's part of Good Good, and
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that also went really well. He's a really good kid,
bright future, good, great player, just such a genuine person.
I think that's kind of the theme of this podcast,
is genuine because again, like I said, there are just
so many people out there who are so fake, and
so I'm open to working with influencers, but there's been
times recently where I've gone up to some golf creators
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and they've just completely blown me off, like completely blot
me off. I went up to someone recently at an
event and I was like, hey, I love your work.
I love to collaborate with you sometime, and he looked
at me, smiled, and then walked away. I was like
standing there and it was in front of a ton
of people, and I was so embarrassed, and I was like, yeah,
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this is why I don't do it. But I have
found some really good people within the industry. Like I said,
I cannot say enough kind amazing words about the bobdas
Sports crew. They are even better in person. They are
exactly how they are online as they are in person.
That's another big thing too, is that a lot of
the creators are not the same in person in real
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life as they are online, and so it like really
throws you through a loop because you get to know
people through their accounts, and then you meet them in person,
You're like, what, who is this person? And that's always
so incredibly shocking. But hopefully we'll be doing more collaborations
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with the Baptis Sports guys because you guys do really
enjoy that, and I enjoy the company. They're amazing, amazing people.
The next question beneath that was do you ever feel
disrespectful from other pro golfers male or female? More of
them the influencers. Honestly, I've just been through some really
weird encounters with the golf media people and influencers and creators.
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I think that there is a divide on how people
perceive me, and I think this goes back to what
I was just saying, where the way people know me
is through my social media presence, and that's obviously a
part of me, but it's not all of me, And
I have created a persona a character, and I play
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it up and I've really leaned into that in the
last couple of years because it's fun and I enjoy it,
and it's like you're playing a character, you feel like
an actress. And I do try to amplify everything that
I'm doing, because you know, you just don't want to
be doing the same thing over and over again. You
have to keep evolving. And so I think people see
this character and they think that's who I am twenty
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four to seven, and then a lot of time they'll
meet me and they're like, oh, you're good at golf.
Oh you're actually down to earth. They're like, oh, you're
like a nice person, or oh your tits are now
like it's like quite shocking, and it's like, yeah, like
because I am a person with many different sides of me,
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and that's just not who I am twenty four to seven,
So yeah, of course I'm gonna be a little bit different.
And so I think when people don't take the time
to get to know me, or they just see what
I post on social media, you can see a bit
of hesitation when I first meet them, and then after
some time they're like Okay, you're not half bad. Or
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maybe some of them don't like me. I don't know,
but like I said, I really do keep to myself.
Let's do one more question then I will wrap it
up for you guys. Best Fairway would or hybrid on
a budget. So you guys already know what I'm going
to say is I always think that the best option
is to go to Club Champion and to get fit
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for your clubs. And I know that upfront it will
be a little bit more, but when you are the
key to budget, I see a lot of people go
and they continuously get clubs off the rack and it
doesn't fit them, and so they end up wasting so
much money trying to find a club that works for
them instead of just going to get fit at Club Champion.
There's also this misconception about Club Champion where they try
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to jack up the prices and they're giving you equipment
that's just expensive and not good for you. You can
go into Club Champion and you can tell them what
your budget is and they're going to find what works
for your budget, and so they're not trying to upsell you.
But if you're saying, hey, I want the best equipment
that's out there. Sometimes that is a shaft that is
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more expensive than another shaft that's less expensive. And so
if you're just saying I want the best equipment that
in prices in an option, it's probably gonna be more
expensive because sometimes like the more expensive shafts are better,
not always the case. And so if you're telling them
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this is my budget, I want a fairway wood within
this price frame. Can you do this for me? They're
gonna find it and it's not gonna be that much
more expensive. I did a video where I went and
I got a driver off the rack and it was
six hundred and fifty dollars, and then getting fit, it's
like not that much more expensive. And so you're already
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spending so much money for a club that doesn't even
work for you. They're gonna replace anyways. And now you
can get a club champion. You can get a club
that fits you perfectly and it doesn't like you're gonna
have it for years. And another great thing too, is
you can go back in and they're gonna help you always,
like take her with that club, and so if it
feels off to you, they're gonna make it perfect. And
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so they'll fix it often lives for free. They'll do
all these things for free to help you play the
best off ever. And so they're not trying to just
kill you one price, but you have to be honest
with them, same with everything. You're not gonna go to
a car dealership and get be like, give me the
best car. They're gonna give you the most expensive car,
because it's it's probably the best car. I mean, it
has the upgraded stereo system and wheels and a different kit,
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and like, all of these things make this car better.
But if you strip it down, you can still find
a car that's amazing, that's probably really great for you,
that doesn't have all this other stuff. And so again
it just goes into price and being honest with them,
being like, this is my budget, this is what I
want to this is what I want to do. Can
you help me? And they're gonna help you do that
because that's what they're gonna do. So head over to
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the Club Champion. These guys are great, They're honestly incredible.
You can use my code page if you guys want
a discount to make it even better to fit your budget.
And that's it for today. I think that was a
great episode. Thank you guys so much for listening, and
don't forget to follow us on social media the Playing
Around podcast. Give us five stars, leave us a next review,
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share with your friends, subscribe all that good stuff and
I will see you guys. I will. You guys will
hear me. There we go. You will hear me. You know,
I've been doing this for so many years and I
still fuck that up every single time. So you guys
will hear me next time.
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