"Okay, great. I have two daughters now."
Simi Mehra's father responded in arithmetic summation when she told him she was gay. Then, like every other day, he shot off for a round of golf.
"That's how much my father hated drama," Simi, India's first-ever female pro golfer, laughs. Her mother, Billy, a former national level golf player, wasn't too pleased by the news at the start, suggesting that Simi choose between her and her partner. "I said, 'I can't pick between you two. It's parents who choose to have a child, not the other way round.' I left it to my mom to decide whether she wanted me as her daughter.