Any thoughts on the LPGA's English only rule?

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DeadHorse

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I know there are some golf fans on here but probably no LPGA fans. (Mrs. Deadhorse is a fan and I like golf so I have a passing interest in it.)

Anyway, the LPGA actually made the front page sports news this week with their new English only rule. What do the people on here think about it?

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My two cents are the it borders on being illegal but sports entertainment is a business. The sponsors of LPGA events spend millions of dollars trying to sell their products to women (mostly American). They get nowhere when 8 of the last 11 tournament winners are from South Korea. Americans will tune that off faster than a bad sitcom. (I saw one award ceremony where the winner couldn't speak a word of English.)

My idea was that if they wanted to make it harder for the South Koreans, why not just move the tee boxes back? The Americans and Europeans are generally the bigger hitters and if they made them start hitting from the men's or tournament tees, the accurate but weak hitting South Koreans would be at a disadvantage.
 
I dont know about the illegal aspect of it, but I really like the idea. Maybe more sports will follow suit. Good thing this wasnt Baseball huh?
 
Shouldn't just be for the LPGA but for ALL employees within the USA. Then again that is another thread on another forum.
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On one hand, I think it's just another example of America's decline into mediocrity. We can't beat the Koreans at golf, so we'll just ban them from our league. It's a lot like the little league pitcher that's "too good" for his peers, so the other parents want to get rid of him.

If it's all about marketing, then the LPGA really just wants cute girls willing to rub, um, shoulders?, with the sponsors. Who cares if they can play a lick of golf. Me love you long time.
 
Seems outrageously discriminatory to me. I can't think of any reason to apply prejudice to women's golf, but maybe they want to limit the prizes to members of their own country clubs.
Maybe they could ban blacks and hispanics next.
 
They're not banning anyone. Everyone is welcome. You just have to learn the international language to humor the people paying your outrageous sums to play a game.

Maybe my reading comprehension is better than most because I took an LSAT Prep Class.

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Good grief. It is not anywhere close to illegal. And it is not anywhere close to racist. That is just a terrible post.

You guys realize that Swedish players have historically done very well on that tour, right? They will also be required to be proficient in English. So will any good French, German, or Swiss players. Even Dutch players.

p.s. They're all white.
 
If any business is sending an employee overseas they have to learn that countries language. This is not illegal and is not even a problem with the LPGA players. I have no problem with it...it is just business. To bring race into it is a huge overreaction.
 
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LPGA is racist

sorry, but this is ridiculous. That many don't think such a rule is racist and exclusionary shows just how much WE don't get it. Why wouldn't such a rule have been made in "Murica" years ago?
 
I don't see any reason why Thailand would not require any competitor on the LPGA event held in that country to be required to speak Thai, and to eat 100,000 scovall rated thai peppers in their noodle bowl.
 
Sure! They should just continue to let foreign players create a wall between the American spectators and the LPGA. That would make good business sense.
 
I don't think most spectators at athletic events give a Korean rat's *** about what constitutes good business. If they did, they could buy tickets and watch a couple hours of events down at the McDonald's franchise.
 
The LPGA could give a "rat's ***" weather or not the spectators have good business sense. The spectators are in the business of enjoying the sport. The LPGA is in the "real business" of providing that enjoyment to the fans. Obviously, a language barrier is not something they had expected or wanted when they created the LPGA.
 
This rule really isn't about America. It's about the Koreans vs. everyone else. The European players are very on board with this rule.
 
and they will. and this won't matter.

as an expat in japan, though, i found the double standard very amazing. they don't expect people to come to their country and learn their language. a lot of their baseball players are american or hispanic, and they always have an interpretor on hand for the interviews. hell, at the chunichi dragons games i went to, it was a trilingual interpretor - spanish for the puerto rican player, english for the african american player, and japanese for the crowd.
 
If they can compete without knowing English, then they should be allowed to. Also, what happens when a mute or otherwise language-disabled American wants to play? I think the rule is pretty crappy, and as an American, I find it mildly embarrassing.
 
As of teacher of the "INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE", I find it an obvious decree.

It's not like the USA invented the language. We just happen to speak it. If other countries want to teach the INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE as their first language, they can as well.

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PS- That's the ENGLISH flag for those of you who don't know.
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