You Better Speak English In The LPGA Or Else!

The LPGA has gone completely totalitarian in it’s pursuit to get everyone on the circuit to embrace the fine compositions of the English-language. Did somebody allow a Minutemen member to take the podium during a press-conference in Korea this week, o que?

At a mandatory South Korean player meeting Aug. 20 at the Safeway Classic, the tour informed its largest international contingent that beginning in 2009, all players who have been on tour for two years must pass an oral evaluation of their English skills. Failure would result in a suspended membership.
“Hopefully what we’re talking about is something that will not happen,” said Libba Galloway, the tour’s deputy commissioner, of possible suspensions. “If it does, we wouldn’t just say, ‘Come back next year.’ What we would do is work with them on where they fell short, provide them the resources they need, the tutoring … and when we feel like they need to be evaluated again, we would evaluate.”

Hey, we understand a lingua franca is necessary for corporate sponsors to feel comfortable dishing out millions in order to secure the rights to a ladies swing and have her forced into a nationally-televised interview, equipped with the linguistic goods to sell their shit, but suspension from the circuit because you forgot how to say “Nike is good to me and pays for my shoes” is damn ludicrous. What’s that? Sending another pro-golfer to the gallows? Sweet. Let me get the sixer.”
Any thoughts?
LPGA requiring players to learn English [Fox Sports]