Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson reacted to the backlash over her victory earlier within the week at a event on the NXXT Girls’s Professional Golf Tour.
Davidson gained the NXXT Women’s Classic in a playoff. Davidson wrote on Instagram the win put her in first place within the race to earn an Epson Tour exemption. The Epson Tour is the developmental tour of the LPGA Tour. The highest 10 gamers of the Epson Tour graduate to the LPGA Tour.
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Amid the backlash, Davidson posted on her Instagram Tales concerning the criticism.
“It’s crazy the amount of misinformed hatred I have received so far today,” Davidson wrote. “All of these people (think) I hit it 300 yards or even 280 yards. How about 250 on a good day.”
A golf ball and flag pole at The Dutch golf course on Aug. 27, 2021 in Spijk, Netherlands. (Neil Baynes/Getty Photographs)
Davidson leads the pack with 1,320 factors. Courting again to November, Davidson additionally has two second-place finishes and has completed within the prime 10 in every of the 5 occasions she’s performed.
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In keeping with the LPGA web site, greater than 600 Epson Tour alumnae have earned LPGA Tour membership since its begin in 1999. There are eight occasions left in NXTT’s season, concluding with the Tour Championship on the Adena Golf & Nation Membership in Ocala, Florida.
Davidson, who was born in Scotland however now lives in Kissimmee, Florida, participated within the Epson Tour Qualifying Faculty in 2022 however did not qualify for the Epson Tour.
The LPGA Tour eliminated its “female at birth” requirement in 2010. Davidson started hormone remedy therapies in 2015 and underwent gender reassignment surgical procedure in 2021, Golfweek reported in Could 2021. In keeping with the outlet, Davidson final competed as a male at U.S. Open native qualifying in 2015 at Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter, Florida.
On Wednesday, Davidson thanked supporters.
LPGA tee markers are seen in the course of the remaining spherical of the LPGA Qualifying Match at LPGA Worldwide on Dec. 4, 2005, in Daytona Seashore, Florida. (Scott Halleran/Getty Photographs)
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“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,” Davidson wrote. “Thank you all for helping me wade through any hate and making me feel loved.”
Fox Information’ Ryan Morik contributed to this report.
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