It may now be called the Kraft Nabisco Championship, but to the thousands of women who flocked to Palm Springs last weekend, it’s still “The Dinah.” The annual pro golf tournament dropped “Dinah” from its name in 1999, even as it was becoming of the largest (some claim the largest) annual lesbian party in the [...]
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A gay golf fan tells why he loves the sport
Outsports reader Kenneth Burns has a fun, breezy article in the Isthmus, a Madison, Wisc., weekly, on how he became hooked on golf. Part of it is the nature of the sport, part of it is the clothes and part of it is how the golfers look in those clothes. With the Masters coming up [...]
Video: Phil Mickelson’s ball gets lost in guy’s shorts
Phil Mickelson hit a drive into the last place you’d expect to find the golf pro’s ball: Another guy’s shorts. What did the guy get out of it? A few minutes of national attention and a ball signed by Mickelson. Not the guy’s ball, Mickelson’s ball. In his shorts. Anyhow, Mickelson lost Northern Trust Open [...]
If Tiger Woods is finished, is golf soon to follow?
After his embarrassing finish at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday, golf fans are finally asking the question: Is Tiger Woods finished? The writing’s been on the wall for a while, but just now are many Tiger Woods fans able to admit it: The Woods we came to enjoy, the guy who was an assassin [...]
Moment #42: Lana Lawless wins right to play on LPGA Tour
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Golf, 2010. When trans golfer Lana Lawless won the 2009 Long Drivers of America title, it was too much for the organization to handle. They quickly changed their rules stating that female participants must have been born biologically female to compete, [...]
Kansas college suspends golfers after they pose naked for team photo
The 15 members of the Bethany College Fighting Swedes golf team have been suspended for three tournaments after posing naked for a team photo (with golf clubs hiding the naughty parts). From KAKE: The men posed with the head of their golf club covering their private parts. The picture was then posted on facebook with [...]
Two former Bengals Anthony Munoz and Jim Breech sponsor event for anti-gay group
Two former Cincinnati Bengals, including Hall of Famer Anthony Muñoz, are co-sponsoring a fundraiser for the Ohio-based anti-gay hate group Citizens for Community Values. Former kicker Jim Breech joins Muñoz as a co-sponsor. The group’s annual golf classic, to be held on Sept. 6, costs $110 per person to participate and will raise tens of thousands of [...]
Moment #95: Muffin Spencer-Devlin becomes first pro golfer to come out
Part of Outsports’ series on our 100 most important moments in gay sports history. Golf, 1996. Few out lesbian athletes have experienced more professional success than Muffin Spencer-Devlin. She was a three-time tournament winner on the LPGA Tour in the mid-to-late ’80s. She is in the top 100 on the Tour’s all-time money list (at just [...]
Babe Didrikson Zaharias gets some love from the New York Times
The New York Times ran a full-page Sunday story on Babe Didrikson Zaharias, who is regarded as one of the greatest athletes, male or female, of the 20th Century. The piece focused on her athletic triumphs in various sports (track & field and golf, in particular), her fading public recognition and how she changed women’s [...]
Masters bars female reporter from the locker room on thrilling Sunday
The Masters Tournament is apologizing today for what they call a “misunderstanding” that kept a female reporter out of the locker room on the final day of the tournament. Bergen Record reporter Tara Sullivan was barred by security guards from pursuing locker room interviews of Rory McIlroy and others, allegedly because she is a woman. [...]
GQ’s 25 coolest athletes ever includes Tom Brady, Joe Namath and Bo Jackson
Publications create lists to generate the “who’s on and who’s off” buzz. Gentleman Quarterly’s list of the 25 coolest athletes of all time shouldn’t disappoint. For starters, they only considered athletes post-1957 because “all time” began when GQ did. Most on the list are good picks; In fact, I can’t quibble with any of the [...]
Tiger Woods fades in Dubai, is fined by European golf tour for spitting
No matter how much his fans want him to be the same old Tiger Woods, he’s not. This weekend he blew a great shot at winning the Dubai Desert Classic when he shot a 3-over on Sunday’s final round against a weak field. Woods trailed by just one shot when he took the first tee [...]
Lesbian coach Katie Brenny sues Minnesota
Out lesbian golf coach Katie Brenny has filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota claiming she was removed from her coaching position at the university because she is gay. According to Golf Week: “The atmosphere that was created became more and more hostile, to the point where it made it intolerable for me to [...]
Vote: Outsports Sportsperson of the year
While the search for the first openly gay active pro athlete in the big four American sports continues, there was a lot of good that happened for gays in sports in 2010. Many more athletes came out, many more straight allies came on board, and transgender athletes became big stories for the first time in [...]
Golf coach Katie Brenny fired for being lesbian?
University of Minnesota golf coach Katie Brenny is claiming she was demoted because she is a lesbian. The school won’t comment. From Golf Week: Brenny contends that she encountered a hostile work environment after John Harris, Minnesota’s first-year director of golf, found out that she is a lesbian, according to attorney Donald Mark Jr. of [...]
Trans golfers now welcome on LPGA Tour
Members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association on Tuesday voted to scrap the “female at birth” qualification for golfers to play on the tour. The decision follows a lawsuit filed by trans golfer Lana Lawless, who had been barred from the LPGA and other women’s golf events including the Long Drivers of America championship, which [...]
LPGA to open its doors to trans golfers?
The Ladies Professional Golf Association is considering a change to its gender policy that would open the door to trans golfers playing on the women’s tour. Currently a member of the LPGA has to be born a biological female. The change would put the LPGA more in line with the International Olympic Committee. The change, [...]
Trans golfer sues LPGA for the right to play
A transgender golfer is suing two big women’s golf entities for the right to play as a woman. Lana Lawless won the 2009 Long Drivers of America title in 2009; The group then changed their rules to state that a player must have been born a biological woman to participate. The LPGA is also only [...]
Tiger Woods’ lost year in golf
To be up front, I am not a golf fan, but am aware of the sport and what the big stories are. So to see Tiger Woods finish 28th in the PGA is shocking as it shows how far he has fallen as a major threat in the sport. The big question is whether this [...]
Is Tiger Woods’ dominance over?
Louis Oosthuizen. Graeme McDowell. Lucas Glover. What do these men all have in common? They’ve won a Major Championship more recently than Tiger Woods. They’re also all 30 or younger. As Tiger’s putter is failing him, his drives are often finding the trees, and his mind seems to be elsewhere, age is catching him. At [...]