Since I had never heard of her, I checked out her profile and discovered two things:
1: She is not currently a tour level player. Though her rating is higher then mine, it is not by much. In four events last year, she barely tied for the last cash spot once. Ten of the other 49 players at that event had an overall rating higher than her highest ever rated round.
Since there are groups that offer incentives for players to do what she did and seeing how many want to support her, her walkout definitely was more profitable than anything she could do on the course.
2: She is a hypocrite. Her profile picture shows a disc with a Vulcan "live long and prosper" salute on it and she is doing one as well. The world presented in Star Trek is one where differences are ignored and people are judged by what they do instead of what they are. I later discovered her concern about no longer being welcomed on the tour following the walkout was related to her previous warning about deliberately misgendering the transgender player.
If I was involved with the disc golf pro tour, I would try to get her to play the next event (since she isn't registered for anything) and make sure she is interviewed the day before and then put her on the co feature card. This way she can babble her racist ideas the day before, get a "hero's welcome" on the first tee from the extra people who would pay to show up at the event to the extra viewers who tune in to see her, and then watch a 919 rated player play her first round in front of the cameras or at least part of the round since after a few holes, her lack of ability will likely show and similar to other players, coverage of her will stop and then on the fourth page of the leader board, people can see how insignificant she actually is.
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