Gay golf pro se sport as more acceptg and wants golfers to e out

Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players. * gay golf shoes *

Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players.

I’m glad that I’m gay, now that the U. I’m sure I would have been able to live a fe life as a straight man, but as a gay, redhead, golf pro I thk I stand out enough to be noticed and make a difference. Up until a few years ago, I thought I was the only gay, male golf pro the world.

I got my boss and the three other golf pros om our staff together the office and told them I was gay.

I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

Roger Hockenberry scrib what 's like to be a gay golfer at an exclive untry club. * gay golf shoes *

It was at a self-velopment nference I was at December 2016 that I realized that pretendg all those years the golf bs meant that I was actually still not pletely OK wh beg gay. After a pse, I said, I’ve been pretendg that I’m straight my reer, when I’m really gay. That was the first time I spoke about beg gay to strangers openly, and the first time I realized thgs had to change.

However, straight men Ameri are transformg gradually to where they n know gay me, and know that gay men are not gog to e on to them the locker room. But when late last year microphon ught Reed utterg a gay slur after he missed a short putt, I was disheartened, if not all that surprised.

The cint and ensug uproar ma me thk not only about the absence of openly gay players on the PGA Tour but also about my own experience as a gay golfer: Did I putt like a f-ggott? Was I effectively a one-man gay pri para every time I teed up? And why are my partner David and I the only openly gay men we know wh a golf club membership?

GAY GOLF BALLS

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” When our search began, we’d agreed not to disparage clubs that rejected for beg gay. After all, private clubs are by nature self-selectg associatns, and while their homogeney has undoubtedly ntributed to their long-term stggl, we weren’t on a csa.

It was jt two om our home, we felt fortable there and already had a number of gay members, if not openly gay members. We knew that if we joed ANCC, we would be outliers, the only tly openly gay uple. Life as a Gay Member.