Contents:
- FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
- CADDIE OF MICHIGAN PGA TOUR PLAYER OUT AS GAY, BOSS 'HAS GIVEN ME MY EEDOM'
- BRIAN GAY'S DDIE ONCE FOUGHT AN ALLIGATOR
- TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS
FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
Stuard was referrg to Montoya g out to him as gay after beg his Tour ddie for four years. He is the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour and Montoya’s public g out was a way for him to try and spire others.
”I lled him up and said, ‘Hey, Dougie, there’s somethg really important I want to tell you, ’ and I said, ‘I’m gay’. But the veteran ddie who has looped for Brian Gay and Vijay Sgh the past handled this Black Wednday really, really well wh a seri of tweets. Longtime PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya had for several years rried wh him a secret much heavier than those staff bags, tellg only a handful of people clost to week, an terview wh Golf Channel, Montoya publicly me out as gay, and creded his boss and Michigan native Brian Stuard's acceptance for havg "given me my eedom" when he nfid him several months ago.
CADDIE OF MICHIGAN PGA TOUR PLAYER OUT AS GAY, BOSS 'HAS GIVEN ME MY EEDOM'
Montaya nsirs Stuard the golfer he's most enjoyed workg wh over the years, and that was even before tellg Stuard he was gay. I had fotten about , but dog a ltle b of rearch after the Humana Challenge on Sunday night I me across this jewel of Brian Gay's ddie fightg an alligator at the RBC Herage.
And after Gay's $1 ln check for wng the Humana, his ddie n afford to fight any kd of animal he wants. 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.