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The LPGA appears to be the next stop for 28-year-old transgender golfer Hailey Davidson who, on May 13, won a professional Florida mini-tour event at the Providence Golf Club, and now has her eyes squarely set on joining the professional women’s golf tour. The win came over LPGA player Perrine Delacour, 101st on the Rolex rankings list, who has $616,000 in career earnings.
“I’m not just going to be stuck on mini-tours,” Davidson said to Beth Ann Nichols of Golf Week. The USGA has given Davidson the go-ahead to compete in its women’s tournaments, and it appears the LPGA will soon decide whether the tour is ready for its first trans.
“We are currently reviewing Hailey’s application to participate in LPGA Tour events under the LPGA’s gender policy,” an LPGA official told Golf Week. “The policy is designed to be a private and confidential process between the LPGA and the athlete.”
In 2010, the LPGA removed a “female at birth” requirement, opening the way for transgender players to compete on the tour. Now it comes down to a transgender player qualifying for events. Davidson, with a professional win in her back pocket, appears on a trajectory to get into events based on how she’s been performing on the mini-tour.
On April 20 at another mini-tour event, Davidson finished three shots behind Paula Creamer, who has 10 career LPGA wins, including the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open. Creamer’s career has tailed off considerably, but we’re still talking about a woman who has $12,131,822 in career earnings.
Davidson’s tournament win on May 13 came against seven women and earned her $550, but she’s clearly thinking about bigger paydays down the road. LPGA Q-school is up next and it won’t be cheap. She’s currently trying to raise $25,000 to get through qualifying to get her tour card.
“I know I have what it takes from being around professional golfers on the LPGA/PGA/Champions Tour over the recent years and staying very competitive with them all. While i know that I have the talent and mental game to make a career out of playing, the initial cost of tournaments and practice expenses is what truly holds me back,” she wrote on her GoFundMe page.
That’s a man, baby
I literally laughed out loud reading this. Bravo my man.
Just what the LPGA needs… or not. Will this help their already low ratings? Hardly…
Bright side, an LPGA player may make the PGA now.
Sad that this madness is allowed in women sports. Where are the feminist?
Women should protest and boycott in competition.
No such thing as transgendered. It’s a dude.
“Her”
Get the eff outta here
DNA doesn’t lie, and doesn’t change.
If you got an adam’s apple or cannot give birth, you a dude.
I guess we’re going to have to actually have a man play a woman’s pro sport before anyone actually does something to stop this insanity. This is the beginning of the end women’s sports if leagues and organizations don’t step in to stop it now.
^^^^ Probably right, unfortunately
Degeneracy. Plain and simple.
The LPGA Comedy Tour…coming to a city near you.
Eventually the trans-diversity tribe will start making noise about the lack of trans “men” in professional sports. Thus, I want to see a woman turned man compete in an NBA game. It might be the only NBA game this former fan is willing to watch, but oh, how I’d enjoy seeing “him” get initiated.
I could care less about who someone else wants to identify as, but this is getting out of hand. Those that want to identify as transgender need to play sports against other transgenders…….that’s it. Start a new league in whatever sport they want, but they should only be allowed to play against other transgenders. This isn’t that complicated to hard to do.
Except there’s no money in it.
Hardly anyone watches women’s sports as it is. Let transgenders have their own channel. Let the woke politicians, Hollywood hypocrites, woke people and their families pour money into it. Other than blacks, who watches the BET Network? Same concept here.
If I don’t have to chop my nutts off I’ll claim to be a woman as well. I’ll be on the tour in 6 months. You guys seriously need to stop calling guys girls though. You guys are giving into the liberal argument by calling men women.
Couldn’t agree more
Start engraving that ESPY.
If the LPGA allows this, they deserve what they get.
This will only be a problem for women’s sports. It’s not like a woman is going to make a professional men’s league, at least based on merit. Of course Sarah Fuller is a free agent, so maybe it’s just around the corner, who knows?
Its a Dude! When is this shit going to stop?
Can he at least wear pants? Captain Winkie popping out of that skirt will kinda ruin the charade.
“Ma’am” brought an extra club.