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Golf: LPGA shoots itself in the foot.

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Golf: LPGA shoots itself in the foot.
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Golfweek reports that the LPGA has just passed a new rule to require all players to speak English. Hilary Lunke, president of the Player Executive Committee, explained the rule as a way to ensure the pro-am events at each tournament continue to draw interest from the public. The LPGA also explains the "English proficiency" rule as a way to help increase the LGPA's marketability.[/quote]

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[quote]One thing that is clear about the "English proficiency" rule: the LPGA is completely desperate to save its failing business and, unfortunately, it perceives a business problem with the ascendance of foreign born players dominating the LPGA. By contrast, the PGA probably could care less what language the players speak. I mean could you imagine the PGA telling Argentinian sensation Andres Romero, Camillo Villegas, or KJ Choi that they have to learn to speak better English. (Or would the USTA require Spaniard sensation Rafael Nadal to speak English!! I don't think so.)
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Mohammed, on the left, I'm still in touch with. He's now living in Agadez, Niger. More focused on his animals now as tourism has dried up. Is active with a co-op promoting local goods, leather work and bijouterie, into Europe. 
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Stoopid.
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
The Koreans have made woman's golf watchable again, disgraceful act.
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LPGA reply...

The aspect which is new and received the vast majority of coverage last week is the penalty, which would be assessed

after two years if a player didn�t achieve the minimal ability to communicate in English. We do not view this as punitive

but rather as underscoring the importance of a core value on which the LPGA was founded: engaging and entertaining

our customers and fans. Without this most basic ability to entertain our customers, we will not maintain the current

levels of events much less grow. Nor will our international members have the skills necessary to maximize their

individual earnings potential by being able to communicate with prospective sponsors.

dairyflat2008-09-03 22:48:27
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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Unbelievable.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/sports/golf/06lpga.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1220677247-ewdoDxC4Jebo7/6La2r8Zg

Bowing to a torrent of criticism, the L.P.G.A. Tour dropped plans on Friday to suspend players who were not conversant in English by 2009. The tour said it would announce a revised policy, with no playing penalties, by the end of this year.
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20/5/20

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