Gay pga players
Justin Thomas and Separating the Art from the Artist
When Rory McIlroy’s roller-coaster weekend began sputtering to a halt on Sunday afternoon, I found myself in want of a rooting interest for the final stretch of the PGA Championship. Mito Pereira was hanging tough at the highest of the leaderboard, but I didn’t feel comfortable pulling for someone who’d arrived at this moment a few years ahead of schedule. The same was true for Cameron Young, a star on the rise who might be ready to grab his next Sunday back nine by the throat. Matt Fitzpatrick was holding his day together with hot glue and security pins. I couldn’t watch another short-range putt from Will Zalatoris without peeking through my fingers like I might at a horror movie.
I found myself drawn to the guy lurking further down the board with championship pedigree, the one who survived the brutal late-early wave tug earlier in the week by carving shots around Southern Hills like a sculptor. That meant cheering for Justin Thomas, the eventual champion and the one guy in the field with whom I have a complicated history. I’m a g
PGA Tour: Todd Montoya, caddie to Brian Stuard, opens up about coming out as gay to golfing world
Todd Montoya has been a golf caddie for nearly two decades, initially on the mini-tours and more recently on the PGA Tour, although he has – until recently – hidden a confidential from most of the golfing community.
The Unused Mexico native, who has looped for a host of players before taking over Brian Stuard's bag in , opened up about his sexuality in a sit-down interview with Golf Channel and revealed why he had decided to previously limit who knew about him organism gay.
"I think that it was mostly because that was my preconceived notion about the society of people that probably encompass the golf community," Montoya admitted to Golf Channel. "I just felt enjoy I would have a better opportunity to gain and keep a profession if I kept it hidden.
"Something that you kept secret for so many years, amongst people you consider your friends and your co-workers, over the course of time, you grow close to them. Until people that I care about know that I'm gay, they really don't know me for my ent
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For much of golf’s extended history, the sport has been seen as a conservative and traditional game. The industry has struggled with diversity and inclusivity, both in terms of race, gender, and sexual orientation.
For instance, country clubs often have strict membership criteria. In fact, the number one ranked golf course in the United States, Pine Valley, didn’t assent to allow female members until May Absurd, right?
As a result, even today, the sport is predominantly white male-dominated and has had limited representation from minority groups, such as those from the LGBTQ+ group. Like many other sports, golf has had its give of discrimination and barriers for Homosexual individuals.
Still, there are ongoing efforts within the sport to promote inclusivity, diversity, and progressive beliefs. The golfing group has been functional to break down barriers, increase accessibility, and create more welcoming environments for people from all backgrounds and identities.
In honor of Celebration Month in June, let’s take a look at some of the historic achievements made by the LGBTQ+ co
Opinion: Gay men are nearly invisible in golf, but we’re not non-existent
The familiar rap against golf is that expressions of diversity in our game are limited to wearing unconventional shades of khaki, that it’s a buttoned-up, hidebound world that stubbornly remains the preserve of ivory, male, affluent, conservative, Christian, heterosexual, country club Republicans with woeful fashion sense.
Admittedly, you can throw a pebble on the PGA Tour and hit someone who ticks all of those boxes — and you wouldn’t have to aim carefully — but like all stereotypes it fails to fully indicate a more nuanced life. A visit to most golf facilities will expose people separated by race, gender and umpteen other differences but united by a passion for the game. Golf also has diversity not so readily apparent to the naked eye.
During Pride Month, it seems as though every company and industry in the land is exposing rainbow colors, marketing that one suspects is often motivated as much by sales as solidarity. The effort to signal a more welcoming environment is increasingly, if slowly, evide