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Brian Gay makes PGA TOUR Champions debut, unsure about his schedule
By Jeff Babineau
NAPLES, Fla. - Brian Lgbtq+ shot 2-under 70 in his first PGA TOUR Champions start on Friday at Tiburón Golf Club. He started out on fire, making birdies at four of his first five holes, but soon cooled and slipped support into the pack.
Gay still has his card on the regular PGA TOUR, and said for now, that appears where he will be doing most of his playing. He wanted to play next week’s PGA TOUR Champions event in Tucson – on a golf course he knows at Omni Tucson National Resort – but as of Friday said he would be traveling to the PGA Tour’s Honda Classic in Palm Beach Gardens.
“Can you double commit?” Gay asked jokingly as the 5 p.m. deadline to commit to next week’s tournaments neared.
This is Gay’s first time at Tiburon, and somebody joked to him earlier in the week as he looked around in the parking lot that he resembled a young kid on his first day of academy. Gay turned 50 in December, and has earned more than $24 million on the PGA TOUR. He owns five victories, including that 2020 Bermuda Championship tha
PGA Tour caddie Todd Montoya has revealed he is queer . Montoya made the revelation on the Golf Channel, and is believed to be the first openly gay caddie on the Tour.
In an emotional interview, the New Mexican, who caddies for Brian Stuard, explained his decision to come out to reporter Kira K Dixon: “Something that you kept private for so many years amongst people that you think about your friends and your co-workers - over the course of time, you grow close to them and until people that I care about perceive that I’m lgbtq+, they really don’t know me for my entirety.”
Montoya has almost 20 years of caddying trial, predominantly on mini-tours. However, since 2016 he has caddied for Stuard on the PGA Tour, and said he has the 39-tear-old American to appreciate for his encourage, saying: "I experience 100% different. I feel like I'm walking on atmosphere. Brian has given me the greatest gift that I could ever gain. I feel prefer he's given me my freedom."
You may likeMontoya explained that he told Doug LaBelle II, who he used to caddie for, the news in 2006, and his reaction gave him confidence: "I called him up and said, 'Hey, Dougie, there's something really important I wan
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 need of a rooting interest for the final stretch of the 2022 PGA Championship. Mito Pereira was hanging tough at the top of the leaderboard, but I didn’t feel cozy pulling for someone who’d arrived at this moment a few years ahead of schedule. The same was real for Cameron Immature, a star on the rise who might be ready to take his next Sunday help nine by the throat. Matt Fitzpatrick was holding his day together with hot glue and safety 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 create myself drawn to the guy lurking further down the board with championship pedigree, the one who survived the brutal late-early wave draw earlier in the week by carving shots around Southern Hills enjoy 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 gay man, and hearing JT mutter “faggot” on a hot mic at Kapalua last year lingers in the back of
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 secret from most of the golfing community.
The New Mexico native, who has looped for a host of players before taking over Brian Stuard's bag in 2016, 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 creature gay.
"I think that it was mostly because that was my preconceived notion about the world of people that probably encompass the golf community," Montoya admitted to Golf Channel. "I just felt like I would possess a better opportunity to become and keep a job 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 realize me for my entirety."
Montoya admitted his sexuality to Doug LaBelle in 2006, after acting as his bag man as