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Greg Fzgerald is an openly gay golf pro and he thks the sport is ready for more out members, even players.

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

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 golfer pic *

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. 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.

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 golfer pic *

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

Gay Golfers List: PGA Players, Pros, and College Athlet.

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

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? ” [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.

On one hand, there are no out gay profsnal golfers.

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

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

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.

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

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There also rema stanc of homophobic slurs on the greens and the locker rooms. 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.

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’M A GOLFER, AND I’M GAY. GET OVER .

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

__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.

PGA TOUR CADDIE TODD MONTOYA REVEALS HE'S GAY

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.

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. 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.

GAY GOLF PRO SE SPORT AS MORE ACCEPTG AND WANTS GOLFERS TO E OUT

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. Life as a Gay Member.

RABOW GOLF, GAY MEN-ONLY RORT

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. 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.

GAY GOLF PRO OUT TO CHANGE PERCEPTNS NSERVATIVE SPORT

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.

TADD FUJIKAWA OUT AS FIRST OPENLY GAY MALE PRO GOLFER

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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I’m a golfer, and I’m gay. Get over . .

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