Transgender golfer Hailey Davidson is making an attempt to develop into the primary transgender girl to earn an LPGA Tour card, and she or he improved her probabilities this week.
Collaborating within the NXXT Girls’s Professional Tour primarily based in Florida, Davidson received the tour’s Girls’s Traditional Wednesday.
Davidson, in response to a since-deleted publish on X (by way of Reduxx), was three strokes again with 4 holes to go however accomplished the comeback after two playoff holes towards Lauren Miller.
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LPGA tee markers throughout the closing spherical of the LPGA Qualifying Event at LPGA Worldwide Dec. 4, 2005, in Daytona Seaside, Fla. (Scott Halleran/Getty Photos)
Davidson shot a closing spherical one-over 73, whereas Miller shot a 76. They each completed 4 over par for the three-round event.
It was Davidson’s first victory of the season, however Davidson has carried out properly all through.
Relationship again to November, Davidson additionally has two second-place finishes and has completed within the high 10 in every of the 5 occasions she’s performed.
A flagstick on the sixteenth inexperienced throughout the fourth spherical of the LPGA Qualifying College at LPGA Worldwide Dec. 6, 2008, in Daytona Seaside, Fla. (Scott Halleran/Getty Photos)
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The NXXT, in response to its web site, is making a gift of 10 exemptions to the Epson Tour, the LPGA’s developmental tour, to its high 5 level leaders of the season.
Davidson’s 1,320 factors are essentially the most on the NXXT.
In accordance 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 College in 2022 however didn’t qualify for the Epson Tour.
An LPGA Professionals flag on the 18th inexperienced throughout the 2020 LPGA Drive On Championship at Reynolds Lake Oconee Oct. 24, 2020, in Greensboro, Ga. (Mike Comer/Getty Photos)
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The LPGA Tour eliminated its “feminine at beginning” requirement in 2010. Davidson started hormone remedy remedies in 2015 and underwent gender reassignment surgical procedure in 2021, Golfweek reported in Could 2021. In accordance with the outlet, Davidson final competed as a male at U.S. Open native qualifying in 2015 at Admiral’s Cove in Jupiter, Florida.
Fox Information’ Paulina Dedaj contributed to this report.
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