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 [Buzz Managerâ™ Blog] Blog In-Depth: LPGA implements rule on English proficiency: Some individuals thought it was a bad move for the LPGA and that they could have found ways to enhance marketability and player development besides a language requirement. Along the same lines, some thought that if speaking English was truly in the best interests of the golfer career-wise, she would choose to learn some English on her own and the rule is unnecessary.

[The Golf Blog] Asian American Justice Center organizes boycott of LPGA for ...: - The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) urges the LPGA sponsors to withdraw support of the Tour until the English proficiency policy is retracted. The LPGA will require all players to be proficient in English starting in 2009 and those who cannot pass an oral evaluation of English skills face suspension from the Tour.

 [The Cycle] Groups come out against LPGA’s English proficiency: The fallout begins for the LPGA, which announced via Golfweek that it would require all of its athletes to be proficient in English by 2009 or face suspension. At least five organizations and public figures issued statements about the .

[Bruce Berlet | Chip Shots] Award-Winning Writer Insightful on LPGA's 'English' Case: The LPGA has informed these players that they have two years to become proficient enough in speaking English before they could be suspended for additional English-language training by the Tour. To goal is for every player on the LPGA to easily converse with pro-am partners and tournament sponsors, to effectively communicate basic thoughts about their rounds to media, and to have the ability to express their thoughts and thanks during tournament award ceremonies.

[channelapa.com] LPGA English speaking Requirements are racist: The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) urges the LPGA sponsors to withdraw support of the Tour until the English proficiency policy is retracted. There are currently 121 international players from 26 countries on the LPGA Tour, 45 players from South Korea.

 [Matthew K. Tabor : Education for the Aughts] Do You Remember History? The LPGA English Language Requirement: The issue at hand is the LPGA Tour’s new requirement that all athletes be proficient English-speakers. Not an unreasonable request, but the LPGA’s mandate could have been formatted, communicated and implement better.

[Bunker Shots] LPGA English mandate creates firestorm: Annika Sorenstam told her story so well after her Colonial experience against PGA Tour pros that it changed the way we’ll remember her. She gained more sponsorship after failing to make the cut there than she did winning on the women’s tour.

 [Blogger Party - get paid to blog and have fun] Forcing English on LPGA is un-American: Beginning next year, the Ladies Professional Golf Association will test players for English proficiency. The un-proficient, no matter how low their handicaps, will face suspension.

 [Accent Mod Blog] LPGA English requirement: The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) has recently instituted a new requirement that all its players have a minimal proficiency with English, in order for them to be able to speak for themselves at media events.

[The Golf Blog] The LPGA to require players to speak English in 2009 -- is new ...: While it is of course their prerogative as a private organization to institute this sort of rule (it IS a U.S. organization - I don't think it would unreasonable for a South Korean organization organization to insist that their members speak Korean--even if this is an unlikely scenario), I do think that this is a bad move on LPGA's part.

[The Geeky Asian Guy Blog] No English, No Golfee”¦: In a first for any pro sports association anywhere in the world, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (the only game in town for pro women golfers in the US) has imposed a language requirement on its membership.  All new LPGA golfers and golfers who have been on the tour for more than two years must demonstrate their proficiency in English.  Golfers requiring time to hone their language skills have until the end of 2009.  The penalty for failure to comply?  Suspension from the tour.

 [NAKASEC] NAKASEC statement on LPGA English-only policy: NAKASEC strongly opposes the new policy by the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) to suspend players if they fail an oral English language proficient exam. Events like the Olympics remind us that sports are about building .

 [On Frozen Blog] Captain Clark: “100 percent” a Go: An issue could arise, Clark conceded, if the number of non-English-speaking players reached something akin to a critical mass, but the Caps now don’t have anything close to that challenge, so there is no explicit language policy, dicated by the captain or team management. Even with Alexander Semin, he noted, “he understands English well . once in a while, if there’s some confusion, Sergei [Fedorov] or Alex [Ovechkin] will explain something to him.”

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