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

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... * gay pga golfers *

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. 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.

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

A very short gay golfers list on PGA tour, llege athlet, golf pros. Tadd Fujikawa is first ever out pro golfer. Also clu Greg Fzgerald and Chris Noble * gay pga golfers *

Still, you n unt the number of out gay players at a Major men’s golf tournament on exactly zero fgers. 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.

Tadd Fujikawa has bee the first male pro to e out publicly as gay. So…I'm gay.

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?

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

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” [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. Adults — nearly six percent — intify as gay, while a further lve to the numbers shows that almost 16 percent of Generatn Z (18-23-yearolds) intify as LGBTQ. Jog Stonewall as his workload allows, Kyle Wn, PGA, is a gay golf profsnal and the golf and events sal ordator at Shadow Ridge, as well as a life skills ach at The First Tee of the Coachella Valley.

“There actually ed to be a bar Palm Sprgs named Dk’s, which is an old joke the gay muny. It’s actually an acronym that stands for ‘Double Ine No Kids, ’ which is still reprentative of many gay upl. There are a lot of gay upl wh money to spend on hobbi that st a ltle b more, such as golf.

The dollars, the rounds and the Gallup poll notwhstandg, beg gay Ameri still reprents taboo for much of the culture, on or off the turf.

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“It wasn’t okay to be an openly gay golfer anyplace the untry 1990, or even 2000, ” Buie says. A hundred toward the ast, another of the natn’s largt gay golf groups te up wh equal ardor, albe wh a different approach to s msagg. The group’s retired Mare founr don’t see a need to openly promote the group’s gay membership.

From Metti’s vantage pot, a arth of gay golf groups serv as a signifier that an overt LGBTQ prence the game may be far om reachg the latter ne.

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

“I thk that most of avid gay golfers still feel left out some rpects, ” Wn nclus. 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.

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

The LPGA Tour has long been a welg ward for lbians, but gay men are entirely visible on the PGA Tour and only slightly ls so the broar golf universe.

The only thg I re to hi golf is my wretched swg, not the fact that I am gay. There are numero proment figur golf wh gay children or siblgs. In an terview wh David Feherty a few years ago, Brandt Sneker said he believed there were gay players on Tour.

“I don’t thk a gay golfer is gog to be that big of a al. 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.

I’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

But when late last year microphon ught Reed utterg a gay slur after he missed a short putt, I was disheartened, if not all that surprised. The cint and ensug uproar ma me thk not only about the absence of openly gay players on the PGA Tour but also about my own experience as a gay golfer: Did I putt like a f-ggott? Was I effectively a one-man gay pri para every time I teed up?

And why are my partner David and I the only openly gay men we know wh a golf club membership? ” When our search began, we’d agreed not to disparage clubs that rejected for beg gay.

After all, private clubs are by nature self-selectg associatns, and while their homogeney has undoubtedly ntributed to their long-term stggl, we weren’t on a csa. It was jt two om our home, we felt fortable there and already had a number of gay members, if not openly gay members. We knew that if we joed ANCC, we would be outliers, the only tly openly gay uple.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

Life as a Gay Member. As new members, we felt that was important to be seen and to be active — to help mystify what means to be gay.

Beg gay the golf world is an odd dynamic. I jt thk the notn of a gay uple on a golf trip was more than they uld procs.

(Note to those of you who like the ia of havg a token “gay iend”: We are not somethg to be llected. ) On the urse, we’ve enuntered no other major issu beyond the latent homophobia that permeat most sports.

WHERE ARE ALL THE GAY GOLFERS?

We’ve even helped a few closeted gay members e out at the club whout fear; one member, an Annapolis grad, told he didn’t add his partner as a “spoe” or “gut” member lt people learned that he was gay.

We’ve also acted as a soundg board for members wh gay children. “It really means so much to have the PGA’s support over the last few years, ” said Greg Fzgerald, an openly gay PGA Profsnal the Northern California Sectn who started the Pri Pro-Am at TPC Hardg Park 2019.

Prr to the event, LGBTQ+-owned bs were featured at the Diverse Bs Supplier Opportuny Exchange, so they uld vie to be part of the Champnship’s 2019, the PGA also partnered wh Athlete Ally, an anizatn foced on endg rampant homophobia and transphobia sport and to activate the athletic muny to exercise their learship to champn LGBTQI+ equaly. PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is gay.

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class="jss213 jss214"><div class="MuiBox-root jss215"><figure class="jss216 jss217" style="max-width:1600px"><img src="></figure></div><p class="MuiBox-root jss218"><span class="MuiBox-root jss219"></span></p></div></div><div class="MuiBox-root jss220"><div class="MuiContaer-root MuiContaer-maxWidthLg" data-cy="article-body"><div class="MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-ntaer MuiGrid-spacg-xs-6 MuiGrid-jtify-ntent-xs-center"><div class="MuiGrid-root MuiGrid-em MuiGrid-grid-xs-12 MuiGrid-grid-md-8"><div class="MuiBox-root jss221"><div class="jss222 jss223"><div class="rich-paragraph">The visn has evolved recent years, through natural progrsns and nsc efforts alike.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">Unrstandg the importance of greater cln and diversy wh golf, the PGA of Ameri has taken actn to be a more welg statn for the LGBTQ+ muny. From partnerg staable activi and engagements to spearheadg groundbreakg gtur, the PGA is workg to engage the historilly unengaged group beyond Pri Month, which ns throughout June and provis a chance to create better awarens for the unrserved muny.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">Recent reports peg the LGBTQ+ market’s global spendg power at nearly <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>$4 trilln</u></a>, and the Uned Stat, <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>Forb</u></a> has that number at more than $900 billn. </div><div class="rich-paragraph">The PGA’s actn is makg a difference for PGA Profsnals and the golf dtry as a whole. This was noted throughout the first-ever <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>Pri Day</u></a> virtual panel -- a discsn on ways to advance LBGTQ+ cln the sport, workforce and golf dtry -- last summer durg PGA Champnship Week at TPC Hardg Park San Francis, and ’s ntued through the PGA’s 2021 Champnships.</div><figure class="jss216 jss224" style="max-width:1000px"><img src=" alt="Pri Day Pro-Am at TPC Hardg Park."/><div class="MuiBox-root jss225">Pri Day Pro-Am at TPC Hardg Park.</div></figure><div class="rich-paragraph"></div><div class="rich-paragraph">“It really means so much to have the PGA’s support over the last few years,” said Greg Fzgerald, an openly gay PGA Profsnal the Northern California Sectn who started the<a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"> <u>Pri Pro-Am</u></a> at TPC Hardg Park 2019. “Personally, ’s benefted my life a posive way … bee I’ve fally been able to be myself. I’ve never felt more fortable at work and on the golf urse than over the past few years, and ’s bee of the PGA’s new visn.”</div><div class="rich-paragraph">Some of the actns haven’t been over the top, but they have been symbolic and meangful for golf and the LGBTQ+ muny. Durg Pri Day at last year’s Champnship and addn to a Pri Panel, Hardg Park’s entryways were led wh Pri flags, and Pri ps were proudly worn by some players and PGA employe alike. All of was part of the “Pri at the PGA” mpaign, a jot venture wh San Francis Pri to give the LGBTQ+ muny a platform for visibily and unrstandg, so that all felt wele to jo the game, the workforce and the dtry’s supply cha.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">The flags turned to a photo engagement opportuny durg the week, and the ps were swiped up a hurry.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">“In the past, I never would’ve thought I’d see a Pri logo and a PGA of Ameri logo si by si,” Fzgerald said, “but now that I have, I thk means that the future of the dtry om an cln standpot is bright.”</div><figure class="jss216 jss226" style="max-width:1000px"><img src="><div class="MuiBox-root jss227"></div></figure><div class="rich-paragraph"></div><div class="rich-paragraph">And ’s also gettg brighter part bee of PGA LEAD. PGA LEAD is a learship velopment program signed to help PGA Members om a variety of backgrounds, inti, and abili ascend to volunteer learship posns wh the PGA’s ernance stcture. Addnally, the PGA’s staff clus multiple people who are openly part of the LGBTQ+ muny and are proud to be part of the PGA team a variety of areas.</div><h6 class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-h6 MuiTypography-gutterBottom">An clive and welg environment for the LGBTQ+ bs and social muni.</h6><div class="rich-paragraph">Durg the 2017 PGA Champnship at Quail Hollow Charlotte, North Carola, the PGA worked wh the Carolas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce (CLGBTCC) to intify bs and muny engagement opportuni that uld be staed beyond the Champnship. Prr to the event, LGBTQ+-owned bs were featured at the Diverse Bs Supplier Opportuny Exchange, so they uld vie to be part of the Champnship’s operatns.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">In 2019, the PGA also partnered wh <a href=" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><u>Athlete Ally</u></a>, an anizatn foced on endg rampant homophobia and transphobia sport and to activate the athletic muny to exercise their learship to champn LGBTQI+ equaly. The PGA and Athlete Ally livered tn to PGA employe to advance tn, awarens and greater unrstandg about LGBTQ+ cln.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">The cln of small, lol and diverse-owned bs n drive creativy and spire novatn. That’s why durg last month’s PGA Champnship at Kiawah Island, South Carola, PGA VendorMatch and PGA JobMatch programs showed the PGA’s mment to cludg LGBTQ+-owned bs biddg opportuni and bs operatns, facilated through the Natnal LGBT Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) -- the PGA has been a member of the Chamber sce 2016 -- and CLGBTCC, among other strategic partnerships. This is ntug through the 2021 KPMG Women’s PGA Champnship Atlanta, the 43rd Ryr Cup at Whistlg Stras Kohler, Wisns, and future Champnship events.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">TP Corporate Lodgg, Inc., which provis hog servic for some of the PGA’s vendors around Champnship events, is one bs relatnship that has veloped out of the NGLCC partnership wh PGA VendorMatch.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">“The PGA actively participat both the NGLCC Procurement Council and the Corporate Advisory Council,” said Greg Shbur, Vice Print of Corporate Relatns for the NGLCC. “The uncils have allowed to engage discsns on LGBT-clive supplier diversy, supplier trends and promotg new opportuni among lleagu across all dtry sectors.</div><div class="rich-paragraph">“The PGA is helpg NGLCC advance the notn, profsnal sports and across every dtry, that an enomy that wel everyone benefs everyone. 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