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Contents:

• TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS
• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• FAMEWATCHER SEARCH PRIMARY MENU SKIP TO NTENT HOMECELEBRY HAIR TRANSPLANTCELEBRY PLASTIC SURGERYCELEBRY LEATHER JACKETBODY SHAPER SEARCH FOR: GAY MALE ATHLETGAY GOLFERS LIST: PGA PLAYERS, PROS, AND COLLEGE ATHLET
• IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY

TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS

The New Mexi native — who has ddied for Ryan Blm, Charlie Wi, Ryuji Imada, Billy Mayfair, Stt Gutschewski, Doug LaBelle II, Tag Ridgs, Nicholas Thompson, Kev Durk and now Brian Stuard — was hant to open up to most the golf muny about beg gay. “Somethg that you kept secret for so many years amongst people that you nsir your iends and your -workers — over the urse of time, you grow close to them and until people that I re about know that I’m gay, they really don’t know me for my entirety, ” Montoya said. Ju Children’s Rearch Hospal Albuquerque, New Mexi that ted him a half-ln-dollar home, is believed to now be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour.

__An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. But the PGA Tour remas uncharted terrory for homosexuals. While women's golf has had several openly gay players through the years, the men's tour is wag on s first.

And, as Brandt Sneker said on the upg season premiere of Golf Channel's "Feherty, " that's probably not bee of an absence of gay golfers -- jt none willg to make their sexual preference public.

ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y

"I don't believe that at all, " Brandt Sneker said when host David Feherty remarked the tour don't have any gay players. "I don't thk a gay golfer is gog to be that big of a al.

But Sneker said he would enurage a gay golfer to e out if he was ready. "The fact that the tour don't have an openly gay player -- I don't know if there is or isn't, but odds are there probably is a gay person on the PGA Tour. Gay Golfers List: PGA Players, Pros, and College Athlet.

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After our Grandma Aka read our post on Gay Wrtlers, she was like, “Ohhh, I didn’t know there are many of them. After all, there are probably thoands of wrtlers out there grapplg for the big dogs like WWE and the Lucha Unrground as well as the ls known on the die wa, this is supposed to be a gay golfers list, why are we gettg distracted by wrtlg?

” [Via The Guardian]Another gay golfer featured on Outsports is Chris Noble who played for the golf team of the Holy Cross College at Notre Dame. In fact, there’s been only one golfer ever to play on the PGA Tour — Tadd Fujikawa — to e out as gay. We’ve had an out gay player w the MLS Cup.

IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS

I thk a lot of them probably don’t re if someone is gay, but if we don’t talk about the issue don’t get rolved. On the flip si, var men’s profsnal golfers have been phed to apologi for homophobic or off-lor ments or slurs they’ve uttered — Jt Thomas beg the most-discsed recent years. There was also an iative at the PGA Champnship a uple years ago where lol gay golf pro Greg Fzgerald had been anizg an entire Pri Day — That effort got turned to a virtual event the rponse to the COVID-19 panmic.

Caddie Todd Montoya recently me out as gay, and Palm Sprgs-area golf pro Kyle Wn has also shared his story.

Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers.

TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY

On Tuday, Fujikawa beme the first profsnal golfer to e out publicly as gay, hopg to serve as “an spiratn and makg a difference someone’s life. “So…I’m gay, ” he wrote. Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay.