Tuesday, August 26, 2008

English Please!!!!

Se Ri Pak, right, and Sun Young Yoo

The LPGA has notified their members that players who don't speak English will have their memberships suspended until they comply with the rules. For all players who have been on tour for 2 years, they will have to pass an oral examination or face the suspension. Wow!! Never thought I'd hear this kind of rhetoric out of anyone since Geno's Steaks in Philadelphia fought and won for his sign that says 'This is America, when ordering please speak English'. At first I thought there'd be a big backlash since a lot of the phenoms in women's golf have mostly, as of late, been from South Korea, but mostly the women have fallen in line. The only negative feedback is that golfers should be fined instead of suspended, and this is coming from a Korean born player in Se Ri Pak. The examination will cover 'golfspeak', everyday conversation, and be able to give acceptance speeches without the aid of a translator. The loss of sponsors is part of the reason behind this. Someone at MLB and the various Boxing Federations are looking at this with disgust. Could you imagine this being implemented in either of those sports? I think that's when you'd get the cries of racism. How is this going to work? Your thoughts.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

THIS IS COMPLETE CRAP!!!!!!

The LPGA is just mad because none of their "home grown" harlots, I meant starlets, are winning. By making English a "requirement" for participation, the LPGA is basically telling its home grown talent, "hey, look, this about all we can do to help your sorry asses out". These are the same harlots, and you know who I'm talking about, that get mad at Big Wie-zy for accepting invites to play on the PGA Tour. PUH-LEEZE!!!!!!!! Don't complain behind closed doors just because your getting your collective ass kicked every weekend.

Shame on the sponsors for putting this kind of pressure on the LPGA, but even bigger shame should be placed on the LPGA for caving to such a request just for the allmighty dollar. There are other sponsors out there, hell, one potential sponsor is about to buy Lehman Brothers.....