FORGET the Ryder Cup for a moment – here is a match made in Heaven.
At least that’s the response you’d get from a few rugby league stars from the Manly Sea Eagles.
The gun footballers thought they were dreaming when they turned up to Bayview Golf Club last month for a photo opportunity with one of their major sponsors, Pointsbet.
When Jake Trbojevic, Toafofoa Sipley and Reuben Garrick arrived on the first tee, who was there to greet them?
Only one of the world’s most popular athletes, Paige Spiranac, who joined Pointsbet as a brand ambassador in 2021 and also took an equity stake in the company.
She has also been named the No. 1 golf ‘influencer’ in the world.
Spiranac has more followers on social media than just about anyone … and was also named the Sexiest Woman Alive in Maxim’s 2022 Hot 100 list.
She was the first athlete to attain that No. 1 spot.
And while admitting to being a rugby league ‘novice’, she was happy to take on the boys over nine holes of matchplay to show off her golfing skills as part of a promotional tour Down Under.
Spiranac showed what a good sport she was by also doing some tackling practice with the boys at training that day.
“If you give me something to tackle just know I’m going all out,” she joked.
“I think we’ve been stitched up here,” joked Trbojevic before he and Garrick took on Sipley and the former golfing professional in a Scramble format at Bayview.
“We’re up against it, but Reuben and I are fighters – we don’t give up,” said Jake.
In the end it didn’t really matter that Paige could beat them easily – if she wanted to. It was more about fun and games and she proved what a good sport she was by attending training at the Manly camp and kicking a ball around with the boys as well.
“All for the good of the game,” she said.
