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
• IT’S THE 86TH STRAIGHT MASTERS WH ZERO OUT GAY PLAYERS
• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?
• GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT
• PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY
• TADD FUJIKAWA BE FIRST MALE PRO GOLFER TO E OUT AS GAY
• 81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR
• 5 GAY PRO ATHLET WHO BROKE GROUND BY G OUT WHILE STILL PLAYG
• TODD MONTOYA OUT AS PGA TOUR'S FIRST OPENLY GAY DDIE, HOP STORY SPIR OTHERS
• TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER
• OPN: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• LYNCH: GAY MEN ARE NEARLY VISIBLE GOLF, BUT WE’RE NOT NON-EXISTENT
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

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. 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.

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.

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

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.

__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.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PRO GOLF DDIE TODD MONTOYA HOP TO SPIRE OTHERS

"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. 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.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

”I lled him up and said, ‘Hey, Dougie, there’s somethg really important I want to tell you, ’ and I said, ‘I’m gay’.

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. 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.

GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT

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. Now, Pri Month is shouted loudly, thanks to those players, like Mel Reid, who’ve publicly shared their homosexualy and all those wh the Tour’s fay who’ve supported them.

“Pri month for me is all about cln, ” says Reid, who me out as Gay to the tens of lns of LPGA fans late 2018. Ined, Pri Month falls June to honor the Stonewall Demonstratns New York Cy that began on June 28, 1968, and lasted several days as thoands took to the streets to mand equal rights for the Gay muny.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

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.S has bee a place where members of the LGBTQ muny n live their liv jt like everyone else. 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.

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

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.

81 PERCENT PGA TOUR PRO SURVEY THK THERE'S A GAY PRO ON TOUR

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.

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. 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.

5 GAY PRO ATHLET WHO BROKE GROUND BY G OUT WHILE STILL PLAYG

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.

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.

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

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.

For many years I was openly gay away om the golf urse, but at work I was a closeted profsnal and my two inti didn’t merge. The golf dtry is nservative and for me that has been a stggle as a gay golf profsnal.

Not only was I gettg e 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. One night I was dancg at Club Dakota, a gay bar Santa Cz, California, when a golf member I knew who was straight me wh his girliend.

TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER

To me that sums up the golf dtry many ways — ’s a place some people n ngregate and e racist, misogynist and homophobic terms and get away wh bee “they’re at a golf urse. For me, that’s why I am now more out as a gay golf profsnal, bee giv me the opportuny to open someone else’s ey, and also giv them the opportuny to surprise me wh their acceptance. His wife was the ladi club print at the time and after I slowly me out to some of the women, word spread about me beg gay.

I thk ’s often overlooked that a part of g out is an ongog battle agast your own ternal homophobia.

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

I have tablished many relatnships wh members, guts, -workers and fellow gay golfers, pecially as I have gotten more fortable my own sk.

PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is gay. Montoya ma the revelatn on the Golf Channel, and is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the Tour. In an emotnal terview, the New Mexin, who ddi for Brian Stuard, explaed his cisn to e out to reporter Kira K Dixon: “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 explaed that he told Doug LaBelle II, who he ed to ddie for, the news 2006, and his reactn gave him nfince: "I lled him up and said, 'Hey, Dougie, there's somethg really important I want to tell you, ' and I said, 'I'm gay'. '"Although Montoya is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour, his news follows profsnal golfer Tadd Fujikawa, who also opened up about his sexualy 2018. 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.

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

“So…I’m gay, ” he wrote. Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay.

So…I'm gay. In a recent anonymo poll of PGA, LPGA and Champns Tour players nducted by, 81 percent of PGA Tour players said they thk there are gay players on the PGA Tour.

You know golf's day is g -- whether 's next week or next -- when a player out as gay, and will be tertg to see how players on the PGA Tour rpond. The event will have zero out gay male players, ntug 86 straight years of havg none on s roster. “Big Bill” William Tiln domated the ternatnal tennis world as an out gay man durg the 1920s, beg the first Amerin to ever w Wimbledon.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

Historians have qutned whether the charg were based on homophobic mors and stereotyp that vilified gay men at the time. When Colls me out as gay the May 6, 2013 issue of Sports Illtrated, he was the first active male athlete any of the natn’s four major pro-sports leagu to do so.

He said he chose his jersey number, 98, as a way to honor Matthew Shepard, the gay man whose 1998 murr led to the passage of a natnal hate crim law. When Rogers me out as gay a Febary 2013 blog post, the then-25-year-old clud his announcement about retirg om profsnal soccer. When the team won the 2014 MLS Cup champnship, Rogers beme the first out gay male athlete ever to w a major profsnal team sports tle the Uned Stat.