{"id":7812,"date":"2024-03-20T08:25:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2024-03-20T08:29:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T15:29:02","slug":"bob-the-influencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bob-the-influencer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob the Influencer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the wrong business. It&#8217;s because I am so far behind the times. <\/p>\n<p>I just read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfwrx.com\/735835\/revealed-how-much-golfs-top-influencers-make-per-social-media-post-compared-to-pga-tour-pros\/\">an article on GolfWRX about Paige Spiranac<\/a> who is making over $8M a year on her Instagam account. Paige was a decent college golfer, but not good enough to make it on the LPGA Tour. So she turned to leveraging her looks, and why shouldn&#8217;t she? (see photo below, and no, I am not trying to turn this blog into something like the fleshy part of Tumblr) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/paigespiranac.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therecreationalgolfer.com\/paigespiranac.png\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She gets paid (I don&#8217;t know how this works) $8-12K PER POST!!! The nearest PGA poster, Scottie Scheffler, gets a bit over $2K per post, Xander Schauffele just peeks over the four-figure barrier, and the rest of them get peanuts.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve been an influencer since 2009, and most of the time I influence you in the right direcction. Maybe I need to figure out this Instagram business.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in the wrong business. It&#8217;s because I am so far behind the times. I just read an article on GolfWRX about Paige Spiranac who is making over $8M a year on her Instagam account. Paige was a decent college golfer, but not good enough to make it on the LPGA Tour. So she turned &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/bob-the-influencer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bob the Influencer?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brilliant-ideas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qtRQ-220","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7816,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions\/7816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therecreationalgolfer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}