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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. 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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Montoya, who ddi for Brian Stuard, is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the Tour * gay golfers *

"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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Let’s be clear right om the start. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that. The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surro * gay golfers *

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. 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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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.

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Roger Hockenberry scrib what 's like to be a gay golfer at an exclive untry club. * gay golfers *

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.

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“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.

“It wasn’t okay to be an openly gay golfer anyplace the untry 1990, or even 2000, ” Buie says.

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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.

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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. “I thk that most of avid gay golfers still feel left out some rpects, ” Wn nclus. PGA Tour ddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is gay.

Montoya ma the revelatn on the Golf Channel, and is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the Tour. In an emotnal terview, the New Mexin, who ddi for Brian Stuard, explaed his cisn to e out to reporter Kira K Dixon: “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 explaed that he told Doug LaBelle II, who he ed to ddie for, the news 2006, and his reactn gave him nfince: "I lled him up and said, 'Hey, Dougie, there's somethg really important I want to tell you, ' and I said, 'I'm gay'.

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'"Although Montoya is believed to be the first openly gay ddie on the PGA Tour, his news follows profsnal golfer Tadd Fujikawa, who also opened up about his sexualy 2018. None of the athlet are nfirmed to be gay or anythg like that.

The purpose of this list is to go a b more pth about some of the mors that are surroundg the players, not to nvce the rear that the athlet are gay.

In fact, as society is now much more open to people no matter their orientatn, we have seen a ton more athlet, both active and retired, e out and adm that they are homosexuals, and 's absolutely a great thg. This list will look at some of the most high profile exampl of pro athlet who have had mors about beg gay surroundg them, but aga, none of those are nfirmed and even if they were nfirmed, they would be somethg to celebrate.

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In 2011, mors began swirlg that Selby was gay, or at least bi-cur. Curry however, is also known by some bee of the allegatns that he is gay. His ex-wife has acced him of beg gay and that Dunn’s lover om llege actually lived wh them for the first few years of their marriage.

The mors about him potentially beg gay have been gog on sce the early 2000s. This mor was that a member of the New York Mets was gay and people were speculatg that was Piazza.

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