Are there any gay pro golfers

While women's golf has had several openly gay players through the years, the men's tour is waiting on its first. And, as Brandt Snedeker said on the upcoming season premiere of Golf Channel's. Are There Any Gay Pga Players?

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In a groundbreaking move for LGBTQ+ visibility in the world of professional golf, Tadd Fujikawa proudly shared his identity as an openly gay male professional golfer last month. A very short gay golfers list on PGA tour, college athletes, golf pros. Tadd Fujikawa is first ever out pro golfer. Also include Greg Fitzgerald and Chris Noble.

Greg Fitzgerald is one of the few publicly out gay golf pros in the world. As The Masters is upon us, he shared some thoughts about where golf is on the efforts for LGBTQ inclusion. He didn’t. The LPGA Tour has long been a welcoming ward for lesbians, but gay men are entirely invisible on the PGA Tour and only slightly less so in the broader golf universe. Choose edition.

Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox. Fujikawa, 27, from Honolulu said he had been pondering going public for some time. Published Sep 14, , AM. Choose edition Singapore International. Golf: Fujikawa becomes first openly gay male pro golfer Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox. The year-old from Honolulu said he had been pondering about going public for some time before telling the world he is gay.

I spent way too long pretending, hiding, and hating who I was. I've struggled with my mental health for many years because of that and it put me in a really bad place. Fujikawa made the cut in his hometown PGA event, the Sony Open in Hawaii, in as a year-old amateur, shooting 66 in the second and third rounds on his way to sharing 20th.

He played five pro events last year in Canada and last year captured the Hawaii State Open, his first pro victory in seven years. Fujikawa said he wanted to champion acceptance for gay children, teens and adults in society, saying, "I will continue to do my best to bring more awareness to this issue and to fight for equality. We must liberate and encourage each other to be our best selves, whatever that may be.

Let's do our part to make this world a better place. Fujikawa played his only major at the US Open at age 15, missing the cut. In , he fired a third-round 62 at the Sony Open before finishing 32nd. See more on. Back to top. Reach us here. Advertise with us. Download the app. Get unlimited access to exclusive stories and incisive insights from the ST newsroom.