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By Sam WemanAn openly gay athlete the ttosterone-filled world of male profsnal sports isn't the radil thought was even a year ago. The NBA's Jason Colls, after g out a Sports Illtrated...

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

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

WHY THERE ARE FEW OPENLY GAY ATHLET IN MEN'S PROFSNAL SPORTS

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.

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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.

GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT

When Nashville Predators prospect Le Prokop me out this week, was the first time an active player unr ntract to an NHL team had ever publicly acknowledged they were gay. Overnight, Prokop's announcement doubled the number of out gay athlet currently playg the untry's four major men's sports — football, basketball, baseball and hockey. They also highlighted the arth of openly gay players the hypermascule world of U.

Though many retired former players have e out, is more unual for male profsnal athlet to say they are gay while still playg.

Gay male athlet face cultural barriers Part of the reason for the lack of out gay players men's profsnal sports uld be that there are jt fewer of them the game.

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