Paige Spiranac reacted to the PGA of America’s recent statement on the Ryder Cup stipend. The 31-year-old influencer gave her thoughts and said from a business perspective, players should be fairly compensated but believes it would have been good if this information wasn’t public.
“Players in the Ryder Cup will receive a 200k stipend and 300k towards charity. I am not privy to the inside information to know if this is fair or not. Selfishly I love the idea that the pride of representing your country is the driving force in the Ryder Cup, not money. But from a business perspective, they should be fairly compensated. I just wish this wasn’t public information considering all the money conversations surrounding golf right now,” Spiranac wrote.
The PGA of America recently announced that Team USA golfers will receive $500,000, of which $300,000 will be given to the charity or charities of the player’s choice while the player will get the remaining $200,000 as a stipend. Spiranac is not truly impressed with this decision and is one of the few influencers who has boldly expressed views on this topic.
Paige Spiranac is one of the most well-known names in the golf world. She is the most followed golf influencer on social media, with around 4 million followers on Instagram and a million on X.
On X, she regularly shares her opinions on various matters across sports, especially golf. Recently, Spiranac gave her two cents on the PGA of America, allocating a $200,000 stipend for Team USA golfers competing in the 2025 Ryder Cup.
Golfers competing in the 2025 Ryder Cup
The 2025 Ryder Cup will begin on September 26th at the Bethpage Black Golf Course in Farmingdale, New York. Twelve golfers from Team USA and Team Europe will lock horns for the prestigious trophy.
The 12 golfers are usually selected through rankings and captain’s picks. The top six ranked golfers will get into the team as automatic qualifiers, while the team captains will pick the next six players as the captain’s picks.
The deadline for Team USA’s automatic qualification is August 17th, 2025, while for Team Europe, it is August 24th, 2025. So, as of now, here are the top six golfers of both Team USA and Europe:
PGA: Ryder Cup Captains News Conference – Source: Imagn
Team USA
• Xander Schauffele
• Scottie Scheffler
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Collin Morikawa
• Brian Harman
• Billy Horschel
Team Europe
• Rory McIlroy
• Rasmus Hojgaard
• Tyrrell Hatton
• Matt Wallace
• Paul Waring
• Niklas Norgaard
Team USA is led by Keegan Bradley, with Webb Simpson and Brandt Snedeker as his deputies. For Team Europe, Luke Donald will continue his services as skipper after regaining the Ryder Cup trophy last year, and he will have Edoardo Molinari and Thomas Bjørn to assist him.