Golf personality Paige Spiranac has released the second part of her match play video with comedian Andrew Santino, a back nine battle filled with trash talk, charity bets and a childhood confession she says she still thinks about “all the time.”
The YouTube video, titled “Surviving 18 Holes With Andrew Santino (pt.2),” picks up where the first installment left off. In the video description, Spiranac wrote that “things take a crazy turn on the home stretch.”
The pair made the turn in a tight match. “Okay, so we just made the turn and it is a pretty close match,” Spiranac said.
Santino said a snack had recharged him. “I just had a 10th T bar or whatever that was. A little power bar. So I’m feeling rejuvenated, regenerated, and I feel like this nine you’re going to go down,” he said.
Spiranac praised his driving. “Yeah. I mean, it was your T shot all day long,” she said.
Santino described his preferred tee shot. “That is the T shot I love is just give me a cut,” he said.
Blind shots and a Vegas bet
On a blind par 3, Santino recalled watching back to back aces at No. 16 at another course. “I saw two guys get hole in ones back to back,” he said, adding that the club pro told him “it’s happened 24 times in history.”
“That’s insane,” Spiranac said.
“Guess where mine went? In the trap,” Santino said.
The two also joked about the traditional hole in one trip to Las Vegas. “What a swing. Let’s go to Vegas. We have to go to Vegas,” Santino said after one shot.
Later, Santino explained his rule for aces with friends: “If you hit the hole in one, you got to pay for the jet and then the other person pays for everything else.”
“It’s a lot of feet pictures,” Spiranac said.
“Whatever, dude. You got them. You got feet. Just post it,” Santino replied.
Gamesmanship and golf talk
Santino asked Spiranac for her best line to get in an opponent’s head on the tee. She suggested commenting on a player’s grip during a practice swing: “Your grip looks a little weird.”
Santino fired back with his own version. “Grip is good. Alignment and grip are great,” he said. “Yeah. I’ve never seen you do that before. That’s cool. That’s new.”
Asked about her biggest golf pet peeve, Spiranac named slow play and one specific habit. “When people are carrying their bags and their irons are clinking against each other. I hate that,” she said.
Santino’s pet peeve was players who don’t repair ball marks. “So, you’re just going to leave landmines to putt through for everybody?” he said.
Santino also asked Spiranac about her golf hero growing up. “Natalie Gulbis,” she said.
On a par 5 he described as reachable, Santino poked fun at golfers who exaggerate their driving distance. “They’re all like I hit it like 310 and they’ll hit it like 265,” he said.
‘The prettiest girl’
Santino asked Spiranac which of them viewers would watch more. “Oh, you for sure,” Spiranac said.
“I’m the prettiest girl,” Santino said.
“You are the prettiest girl in the room,” Spiranac replied.
The conversation turned to whether Spiranac was an “ugly duckling” growing up. She said she was “okay in college” but “gained a bit of weight” before blossoming afterward.
“I think it’s the best thing like being a weird little kid and then kind of overlooked throughout most of your life. You have to develop a personality,” Santino said.
“I was never I don’t know. Like the pretty one,” Spiranac said.
“Well, you’re still not the pretty one,” Santino said. “Comment down below. I’m the pretty one of us, too.”
Spiranac also teased Santino about the lack of redheaded male heartthrobs. “Do you ever get upset how there’s no like ginger s** symbols for men?” she asked.
“We’re not that guy. But for women, it’s kind of everywhere. It’s like hot to be a redhead,” Santino said. “You make fun of us, it hurts.”
Santino also joked about his fitness: “My a** is getting fat, dude. Old guy. Fat boy.”
Putting for charity
Charity became a running bet on the back nine. “You make this putt, I’ll donate $1,000 to a charity of your choice,” Santino told Spiranac.
Spiranac named two organizations she has supported. “Cyber Smile, which was this anti bullying organization. Worked with them for a number of years. And then City Harvest, which gives meals to families and kids in need,” she said.
Santino said he supports Special Olympics through an annual event called Ho Ho Homers. “I pitch softballs and you can come smack them over the fence and we raise money for Special Olympics,” he said. He also named Children’s Hospital, saying that in his 40s, “I want to do more stuff for the thing cuz it’s fun.”
Spiranac volunteered to join the event, prompting jokes from Santino that the fundraiser needed another participant after losing one the previous year.
When Santino’s own charity putt just missed, he said, “God, that putt was perfect,” before quipping, “Paige doesn’t care about charity and she never has.”
“I’ll give you 500 because that was close enough,” Spiranac said.
An embarrassing memory
After the match was squared, Santino asked Spiranac for her most embarrassing moment.
“I was really antisocial. Like I couldn’t talk to anyone. Super introverted,” she said. She recalled ripping her pink spandex shorts at age 8. “I was so embarrassed to tell someone that I ripped my shorts that I thought that if I grabbed the fabric from the left side and the right side and pulled it together and shoved it up my crack and I waddled the rest of the time through school that no one would notice,” she said.
“This was all day at school?” Santino asked.
“All day at school,” Spiranac said. “And after lunch the teacher comes up to me and she’s like, ‘Are you okay?’ And I was like, ‘No, I ripped my shorts and I didn’t want to tell anyone.'”
She said classmates laughed and pointed. “It was really sad,” she said.
The home stretch
Santino then rolled in a birdie after vowing not to think about the putt. “I’m just going to hit it and make it. Watch this,” he said.
On the par 5 that followed, Santino got a lucky bounce. “It’s a great kick because God loves me,” he said.
Spiranac hit two trees on the hole but still had a birdie putt. Santino offered a read. “I mean, I am a better putter. It has been shown on camera,” he said, insisting the putt broke “inside left.”
The putt missed, leaving Spiranac 2 down with three holes to play. “I can’t believe I listened to you,” she said.
She responded with a birdie. “Down one. Fighting,” she said.
On the final hole, Santino misjudged the wind and flew the green. “I hit that so hard. Oh my god, it’s so deep,” he said. Spiranac’s chip spun back off a hill toward the hole, drawing a “This is unbelievable” from Santino.
Santino finished the hole by putting one handed. “I mean, it’s over, but I’m going to one hand this for fun cuz I’ve been doing it all day,” he said.
“Okay. Well, that’s the match,” Spiranac said. “It’s a really good match.”
Santino’s parting words, “Well, one down,” suggested Spiranac finished one hole behind.
Spiranac thanked the host club in Tarzana, calling it “really the best day ever,” and invited fans to weigh in on a rematch. “Leave a comment down below on where you want the rematch,” she said. “Our weaknesses were actually our strengths today, which is quite interesting and that happens with golf.”
