The New York Post reports:
Tadd Fujikawa has become the first male pro golfer to come out publicly as gay. The 27-year-old did so in a lengthy Instagram post on Tuesday, saying his timing was tied to World Suicide Prevention Day.
It’s the second time Fujikawa is making a bit of golf history — he also was the youngest golfer to ever qualify for the US Open, when he was a 15-year-old at the 2006 tournament at Winged Foot in Westchester.
Fujikawa is a native of Hawaii and chose to forgo college golf to become a very young professional. At the 2007 Sony Open in his native state, Fujikawa qualified as a 16-year-old and then became the youngest player to make a cut on the PGA Tour in 50 years.