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Tadd Fujikawa, who 2007 beme the send-youngt player to make the cut at a PGA Tour event, has e out as gay, and he is believed to be the first male profsnal golfer to do so.

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

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So…I'm gay. The New Mexi native — who has ddied for Ryan Blm, Charlie Wi, Ryuji Imada, Billy Mayfair, Stt Gutschewski, Doug LaBelle II, Tag Ridgs, Nicholas Thompson, Kev Durk and now Brian Stuard — was hant to open up to most the golf muny about beg gay. “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 said.

Ju Children’s Rearch Hospal Albuquerque, New Mexi that ted him a half-ln-dollar home, is believed to now be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour.

PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya me out as gay an emotnal terview on the Golf Channel on Monday night.

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"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 told Golf Channel reporter Kira Dixon. A native of New Mexi, Montoya, who is reportedly believed to be the first known out, gay ddie on the PGA Tour (acrdg to Golfweek), spoke of his early love for golf, but how he kept his sexualy secret for fear of the impact would have on his life and potential reer. "I said there's somethg really important that I wanted to tell you and I said, 'I'm gay, '" Montoya revealed.

Longtime PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya had for several years rried wh him a secret much heavier than those staff bags, tellg only a handful of people clost to week, an terview wh Golf Channel, Montoya publicly me out as gay, and creded his boss and Michigan native Brian Stuard's acceptance for havg "given me my eedom" when he nfid him several months ago. Montaya nsirs Stuard the golfer he's most enjoyed workg wh over the years, and that was even before tellg Stuard he was gay. 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.

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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. 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.

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

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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. I'm gay. "Fujikawa said that the fluence of openly gay people the public eye helped him fd personal acceptance, and he hop his announcement n do the same for others.

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Tadd Fujikawa has e out as gay a post on his Instagram acunt. "So, I'm gay. Amerin golfer Tadd Fujikawa has announced he is gay.

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The 27-year-old is believed to be the first openly gay male profsnal golfer. “So … I’m gay, ” he wrote. ‘’So… I’m gay, ” revealed profsnal golfer Tadd Fujikawa, as he beme one of the first out profsnal male golfers.

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” Acrdg to Wt Hawaii Today, Fujikawa’s father, Derrick, said that he didn’t know he son was gay until he heard about the post, but he was “happy for him. 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.

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. 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.

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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. 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. This may, part, expla the plete absence of a gay profsnal golfer.

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There also rema stanc of homophobic slurs on the greens and the locker rooms. Tadd Fujikawa this week beme the first male profsnal golfer to e out as gay, sayg he hop his g out will “spire” others to “be more empathetic and lovg.

There have been several openly gay female golfers the sport’s history, but Fujikawa is the first openly gay man, The Washgton Post reported. __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.

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"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. 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.

Tadd Fujikawa, who 2007 beme the send-youngt player to make the cut at a PGA Tour event, has e out as gay, and he is believed to be the first male profsnal golfer to do so. "Acrdg to Outsports, a webse that exam the tersectn of sports and LGBTQ issu, openly gay active female pro golfers have clud Mianne Bagger, Alena Sharp and Rosie Jon.

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