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Contents:

• JASON GAY
• REMEMBERG ROGER ANGELL WH JASON GAY. PL, HOW TO COVER A GOLF TOURNAMENT
• JASON GAY: PGA TOUR’S HYPOCRISY LAID BARE AS MERGER WH LIV ONCE AGA PROV THAT MONEY WS
• ARE THERE GAY PLAYERS ON THE PGA TOUR? BRANDT SNEKER SAYS ODDS ARE Y
• JT THOMAS APOLOGIZ FOR G ‘EXCABLE’ ANTI-GAY SLUR
• WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

JASON GAY

Sports and Humor Columnist, The Wall Street JournalJason Gay is The Wall Street Journal’s sports lumnist and a humor lumnist for s Review sectn.

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REMEMBERG ROGER ANGELL WH JASON GAY. PL, HOW TO COVER A GOLF TOURNAMENT

Jason Gay: PGA Tour’s hypocrisy laid bare as merger wh LIV once aga prov that money wsAfter shamg players for takg the money, the PGA Tour is … takg the money.

By Jason GayMay 22, 2023 6:00 am ETGolf has spent the better part of a year locked an exasperatg, out-of-touch bicker over what needs: a fancy new tour, petg events, better promotn, swankier perks, richer guarante, bigger paychecks…Copyright ©2023 Dow Jon & Company, Inc. __An openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago.

JASON GAY: PGA TOUR’S HYPOCRISY LAID BARE AS MERGER WH LIV ONCE AGA PROV THAT MONEY WS

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.

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

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. 3 golfer Jt Thomas has apologized for g a homophobic slur that was ught by televisn microphon at a PGA Tour tournament Hawaii on Saturday. 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. In 2018, Tadd once aga ma PGA history, beg the first male player to openly e out as gay.

JT THOMAS APOLOGIZ FOR G ‘EXCABLE’ ANTI-GAY SLUR

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?

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

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.

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