LPGA says all players must learn English

I can think of a helluva lot more places than the freaking LPGA to get my red-white-and-blue dander up.

 

Maybe the LPGA can put a quota on the number of foreign players on the tour, like the Canadian Football League does with American players.

 

The CFL--along with European basketball and hockey, Japanese baseball, and soccer leagues.

At the rate the LPGA is going, Don Cherry would make a GREAT commish.

 

No way that wasn't written in blue font.

 

LPGA has backed off on the mandatory English policy.

http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.wsptlpga0905/GSStory/GlobeSportsGolf/home

Bivens said there are other ways to achieve the tour's objective of “supporting and enhancing the business opportunities for every tour player.”

If nothing else, she's mastered corporate weaselspeak.

 

But corporate weaselspeak isn't English either... it's gibberish

 

True. But better to admit the mistake - or at least change tactics - than to defend an ignorant and poorly thought-out policy.

The LPGA should have known it could work this out without making a big production out of it, but it learned the hard way.