First off, I have not read up completely about the situation but it already has heated me up.
Today the LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) announced today that players will have their membership suspended if they don't comply with speaking English. Basically if you don't speak English you cannot participate in LPGA events. To me this is ridiculous, give me a break, you don't talk your ball into the hole. By not speaking English you are not harming anyone or causing anybody else to do poorly. You don't have an advantage over the competition.
This is purely business motivated and wrong. It's not the LPESGADA! (in case you haven't figured it Ladies Professional English Speaking Golf Association of Discriminatory Assholes). If this is the way it will be than lets come up with a few more:
To be union actress, you must be a scratch golfer.
To be professional baseball player you need to have a full head of hair. (I am totally against this one)
To be a cook you must be proficient in Excel, Word, Powerpoint and Sudoku.
To use a keyboard you must have 10 fingers AND can juggle 6 oranges.
What is going on? Please someone, tell me I missing a major point of this decision by the LPGA.
5 comments:
I understand where the LPGA is coming from. They want their golfers to be able to interact with the ams in pro-ams and stuff. They want their players to be more than golfers, they want them to be entertainers and ambasidors for the sponsors spending millions of $$$...mostly in the US and speaking English. But this policy is totally rediculous. I agree an intrepreter would be fine, and besides, most folks just want to see the best golf possible. To relate this to other sports...could you imagine baseball or the Mariners without Ichiro? I sure can't. Silly policy.
OK, I don't follow golf a ton. Is there such an ordinance for the PGA? Are the menfolk required to speak English? That's what I want to know.
Because frankly, I wouldn't care what language Phil Mickelson spoke, I still wouldn't want to hear it.
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Julian, I agree, an interpreter would be better. My golf game needs an interpreter of a different kind!!
PGA does not have such a silly rule. I take it you are not a Mickelson fan?
Hey Mike, what language does your golf club speak when it is crossing from inside out, taking lots of turf, and totally ignoring your requests to "send the ball to it's home"?
The only language I have found to help this situation is to harshly threaten your equipment with tons of curse words and let it [the equipment...it is never the golfer's fault] know by example that destruction and subsitution will result if they don't behave and send the ball to it's home!
PS. I also think Phil M. is a dork.
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