Melissa Reid plays mostly on the Ladies European Tour.
She’s never won an LPGA Tour event, she’s ranked 253rd in the world and with all that considered, you wonder why they’re making such a fuss over Reid, who goes by Mel, announcing to the golf world that she is gay.
Somebody needs to tell Mel that this is the year 2018 and no one really cares who is gay, who is straight and who is somewhere in between.
Circumstances have been tough for Reid since May of 2012 when her mother was killed in a car crash near Munich, Germany, on her way to see her daughter compete in a Ladies European Tour event.
In September of 2015, Reid told ESPN that her life “was a mess.”
“I wasn’t coping, I was rebelling, I was spending time with people who partied. I was hitting the self-destruct button. I was with a lot of people but I was lonely.”
As far as the gay declaration goes, nothing new there.
Back in the 70s, it was easier to pick out the few players on the LPGA Tour who weren’t gay.
So this declaration by the 31-year-old Reid isn’t that big of a deal.
It really isn’t. This is 2018 and Reid is free to be whoever and whatever she wants to be.
No declarations necessary.
