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

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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.

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

Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay.

So…I'm gay. __An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago.

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

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.

"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.

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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. 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.

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