Irony Alert: Transgender Golfer in Line to Win Spot on Prestigious LPGA Tour

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Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson won a tournament in Florida. The victory improved his chances of earning a spot in an LPGA qualifying tour.

Davidson, age 30, is a native of Scotland and now resides in Florida. He won the NXXT Women’s Classic on January 17 at the Mission Inn Resort and Club northwest of Orlando. He shot “one-over 73 and ended in the three-round tournament +4.” I’ll be completely honest here – I have no idea what that means. I don’t follow golf and know next to nothing about the sport. Frankly, I think it is boring. YMMV.

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Anyway, this story is noteworthy for two reasons. If Davidson is successful and earns a spot on the qualifying tour, he will be the first man competing in professional women’s golf. The other reason is that NXXT Golf is billed as a professional women’s golf tour focused on “elevating women’s golf.” Irony, much? How does opening up women’s golf elevate the sport by allowing a man to compete?

“The Tour’s mission is to prepare the world’s best young women professional golfers for a successful career on the LPGA Tour,” according to the Epson Tour’s website.

The win propelled Davidson to the top of the NXXT tour’s leaderboard where she boasts a total score of 1320, a whopping 150 points ahead of the woman in second place.

Out of the five tournaments held in the league since November, Davidson has placed in the top-2, twice, along with a 7 and 9 place finish.

Along with a trophy and the 500 league points given to the winner, Davidson was awarded $1,576.51, increasing her season total to $4,206.84, with a current career total of $5,801.89 over 8 events.

At the end of the tour’s schedule, 10 exemptions will be awarded to the top five points leaders to participate in the Epson Tour.

This league is the official LPGA qualifying tour. The system has produced 600 members who have gone on to play in the LPGA, which is the largest and most prestigious women’s golf organization. Five events have been completed and there are eight more on the schedule. The last tournament is the NXXT Championship in Ocala, Florida from March 25 to 27. Davidson is at the top of the heap now. He is 150 points ahead of the woman in second place.

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Sorry, ladies. There’s a man who is taking one of your slots for the big time.

Davidson made history prior to joining NXXT Golf, as she became the “World’s first transgender person to win a professional golf tournament,” a record she boasts about in her Instagram bio. haileydgolf/Instagram
If Davidson were to be awarded two of the ten exemptions to the Epson Tour, she had to earn approval from the LPGA while she was transitioning from male to female.

She allegedly began talking with the tour in 2016 but wasn’t deemed eligible to compete until 2021, when, at that time, she had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for 5 years and 8 months.

She also had full gender reassignment surgery by that time, according to a post on social media dated Oct. 2022.

Davidson also claims she lost 15 mph of “club head speed” as a result of her transition.

The average PGA Tour golfer’s club head speed is 114.2 mph while the average driver swing speed on the LPGA Tour is approximately 94 mph, according to analytics company GraffGolf.

Note the emphasis on speed. A man is going to hit the ball harder and it will travel farther than a golf ball hit by the swing of the golf club by a woman. I’m pretty confident in stating the obvious. His surgery doesn’t make him a woman. That, of course, is the rub. Body mutilation doesn’t change gender despite what those with gender dysphoria want to be true. He has no business in women’s sports.

Davidson began working with the tour in 2016. He wasn’t allowed to compete until 2021. He had been on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) for five years and eight months at that point. Caitlyn Jenner supports him being allowed to compete in women’s golf and his being admitted to the LPGA if he secures a spot. “I’ve been very consistent with how I’ve tried to approach these transgender athletes. It really depends on the sport. Every sport is different,” Jenner said in August 2022.

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Bull poo. How stupid do the supporters of trans athletes think we are? Jenner, allegedly a Republican, is supporting progressive propaganda with that opinion. Any man in a woman’s sports competition is taking a spot from a woman athlete. It isn’t right. Women train and prepare throughout their lives to be professional athletes, just as men do. Why should a man who isn’t able to defeat other men be allowed to switch to competing against women? It is unacceptable. The result will be the demise of women’s sports.

That’s why it is worthwhile for other women (and supportive men) to speak out, even on sports like golf which I know little about. Women athletes deserve better. Where are the feminists? Where are the fighters for Title IX? A few professional women athletes have come out against transgender activism in sports but it is mostly those who are now retired – like tennis legends Martina Navratilova and Chrissie Evert. The others leading the fight are the young women who have experienced competing with males, like Riley Gaines. God bless her and her courage to say enough is enough. Young women will lead the way in this battle. They have to because it is their time and their elders are cowards.

Feminists are willing to sacrifice women’s sports in the name of supporting transgenderism. As I said, it’s unacceptable. It’s a slap in the face to women. It has to stop before it’s too late. Let’s hope more women with a platform speak up, too, like Megyn Kelly.

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He plays coy about the transgender issue.

Davidson touted her victory on X, writing: ‘I was finally able to get my 4th professional win after two playoff holes… Also moved me into 1st place in the season rankings for two Epson Tour exemptions!

‘Most importantly though, thank you to absolutely everyone who has supported me from my fellow competitors to all of you that I may or may not have had the chance to meet yet. Thank you all for helping me wade through any hate and making me feel loved.’

Davidson told Golf Week that the ‘trans issue’ is also a source of angst for her as well.

‘I guess that’s what frustrates me the most. If I play bad, then people will feel justified – ‘Oh well, she played bad and wasn’t good enough.’ – If I do anything good, it won’t be because of the fact that I put my whole life into this … it would be because I’m trans.

‘I want to make sure everything I do is positive to the point that there’s nothing negative people can say,’ she said. ‘I’m not standing up on the first tee saying ‘Oh, I’m Hailey. I’m the trans girl.’ If it comes up, it comes up.’

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I would show you that tweet but his account is private. You can find him on Instagram.

In 2010, the LPGA Tour removed its requirement for golfers to be ‘female at birth.’ Fourteen years later, here we are.

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | December 12, 2024
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