Transgender athlete Veronica Ivy is now dominating a second sport.
The biological male, after historic cycling wins, is now starring on the golf course.
Ivy, then using the name Rachel McKinnon, was the first trans woman to win a world cycling championship with masters titles in 2018 and 2019.
Ivy is now racking up golf hardware on the amateur level.
The 44-year-old and teammates Nonie Marler and Aram Choi defended their Inter-Provincial Team title at the Canadian Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship on Friday.
In June, Ivy won both the women’s British Columbia Mid-Amateur and Mid-Master championships.
“I swear, golf has to be the hardest sport out there,” Ivy wrote in an Instagram post in June after capturing the BC Mid-Am Championship by one stroke. “Cycling was so simple by comparison. Cycling is maybe 5 minutes of peak stress, but golf is just 5hrs of non-stop stress, for days on end.”
Outkick’s Joe Kinsey posted an Instagram comment from Ivy on a Golf Canada post congratulating Ivy, Marler and Choi on their win, where the former cycling star says her driving is her biggest weapon and their goal is to start driving more than 280 yards.
Comments have since been turned off on the Golf Canada post.
Only three golfers on the LPGA Tour currently average more than 280 yards on drive and only nine average 275, according to the tour’s website.
Trans athletes competing in women’s sports are back in the spotlight after the uproar surrounding Fever star Sophie Cunningham’s comments in support of protecting “young girls” from biological men in women’s sports.
There have been several rallies outside arenas in support of Cunningham, who has been booed inside.
Lynx coach Cheryl Reeve spoke one-on-one with the Fever star before wearing a shirt that read “Trans Kids Belong” during the game.
Former NBAers Enes Freedom and Royce White have both said they identify as trans and will declare for the 2027 WNBA Draft to test the league’s public position on trans athletes.
