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Now, Pride Month is shouted loudly, thanks to those players, like Mel Reid, who’ve publicly shared their homosexuality and all those within the Tour’s family who’ve supported them. Golf’s global. As a professional golfer on the LPGA tour, I can provide some insights into the question of what percentage of LPGA golfers are gay. From my own observation and interaction with fellow players, I estimate that there are no more than two dozen openly gay women on the tour at the moment.

In a lengthy interview with the LPGA Tour as part of Pride Month, Georgia Hall and Ryann O'Toole spoke about their relationship, the reaction they have received on social media and the support. Notable figures include Megan McChrystal, who came out publicly, and others like Brittany Lincicome and Laura Davies, who have shown support for LGBTQ+ visibility in sports.

The association has. In this engaging video, we take a closer look at the presence of LGBTQ+ players within the LPGA Tour. We highlight the journeys of some remarkable athletes who have bravely shared their. By Jamie Leno Zimron. Muffin Spencer-Devlin is one brave and talented woman. A 3-time winner and year veteran on the LPGA Tour , Muffin became the first professional golfer to come out — in Sports Illustrated magazine, in !

Today she has become a master glass artist, living in Laguna, CA, and is happy with who she is, what she does, and how she is living her life. She is so open and honest, thinks outside the box and has such a real heart. Muffin Spencer-Devlin: In college. Before getting serious about golf or playing professionally.

Muffin Spencer-Devlin: I think about a third. Most were out amongst ourselves, if they even knew themselves. But the bouts of depression and mania really affected my career, and for me being gay was another aspect of that. So coming out was cathartic for me, like opening different doors of the closet. It was a relief, and almost a non-event in hindsight. Whatever the consequences, being honest should be less stressful, not more…Coming out is like an incredibly huge weight being lifted from my shoulders.

No more living in the shadows.

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No more lies. I truly believe that keeping a secret is an energy-consuming act. If every day when you wake up you have units of energy for the day, and you have secrets, they might take up 10 units of that energy. After a time you might not even be aware of it anymore, but you have that much less energy to apply in your life. Jamie Leno Zimron: Given that other players, and LPGA officials, knew there were many lesbians on Tour, did they tell you outright or try in other ways to keep you quiet?

That was the rule I lived by. Why not at least The Advocate? On the other hand, my straight player friends were supportive. No one knew what to expect, so we went back into our little turtle shells and waited to see what would happen. Since , only Rosie Jones has officially come out, ten years ago, and that was at the end of her playing career when she was contracting with Olivia to move on into the lesbian travel business.

It is such a personal thing, with motivations all over the spectrum. Straight tour players were supportive. But my gay compadres shunned me. Those players involved in creating what would become the Senior Legends Tour shunned me, left me out of the program.

Prior to one of the first senior events that was to take place in Utah, the players were fearful of having a gay player come to Mormonville. That all pissed me off, then and now, and left a bad taste. I just put it on a handful of players, who are still personally worried and holding back. But I would never have gone on to become a glass artist.