The USGA and LPGA have announced a new gender policy, which will affect transgender golfers. Starting in 2025, the USGA is implementing a “Competitive Fairness Gender Policy,” which states that “athletes must be assigned female at birth or have transitioned to female prior to going through male puberty in order to compete.”

The updated policies, which take effect in 2025, would rule out eligibility for Hailey Davidson. Davidson missed qualifying for the US Women’s Open this year by one shot and came up short in LPGA Q-school.

Two golf governing bodies – the LPGA and the USGA – announced new guidelines Wednesday requiring golfers to be female at birth or to have transitioned pre-puberty to be eligible to compete in women’s events.