Gay golf pro out to change perceptns a nservative sport - Outsports

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• 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
• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?
• LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
• GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT
• PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY
• OPN: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT
• 9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

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

Gay Golfers List: PGA Players, Pros, and College Athlet. 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. __An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago.

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

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.

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

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. "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.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

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. On one hand, there are no out gay profsnal golfers. This is disappotg bee there are certa to be gay players the profsnal golf circu.

LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

What is holdg back the male gay players om g out?

The first profsnal male golfer to e out as gay is nsired to be Tadd Fujikawa of the Uned Stat.

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

This may, part, expla the plete absence of a gay profsnal golfer. There also rema stanc of homophobic slurs on the greens and the locker rooms.

In fact, there’s been only one golfer ever to play on the PGA Tour — Tadd Fujikawa — to e out as gay.

GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT

We’ve had an out gay player w the MLS Cup. 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.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

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.

OPN: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT

Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers. As of 2022, around 20 percent of WNBA players are openly gay. A poll nducted by Pk News found that participants ranked tennis as the most gay-iendly sport.

GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT

Though an timate om New Zealand Golf Magaze stat that anywhere om 10–14 percent of golfers are likely to be gay, the number of out profsnal golfers is low.

In 2018, Tadd once aga ma PGA history, beg the first male player to openly e out as gay. Not only was I gettg ed to a new facily, I was also tryg to figure out which -workers I uld tst and which members might be OK wh me beg gay.

However, there have still been no openly gay men to play the PGA Tour or Masters.

9 BASEBALL PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT AS GAY

So, is so shockg that homophobia would also be prevalent on the urse and the untry clubs?

Homophobic and anti-trans sentiments seem to be a staple tradnal nservative valu, as shown by recent legislatn such as the “Don’t Say Gay” bills phed by Republin lears like Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. In his article, Wn scrib the golf urse as “a place some people n ngregate and e racist, misogynist and homophobic terms and get away wh bee ‘they’re at a golf urse.

’” Look no further for proof than profsnal Jt Thomas sayg a homophobic slur at a tournament 2021. This month the PGA of Ameri has been spotlightg gay members, and for several years has strsed that golf’s long-term health and enomy mands drawg a more diverse dience. Last year, Tadd Fujikawa beme the first male player of even morate promence to announce that he is gay.