LPGA Rescinds Forcible Offer of ESL Classes to Korean Competitors
Why do you want to hear golfers talk, anyway?
 

The LPGA — which stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association, not Lesbian Professional Golf Association — just retracted an earlier statement about requiring all players (read: Asians) who are not proficient in English to learn the language, or face banishment. The tour frowned heavily upon players who couldn't deliver interviews or acceptance speeches to American TV networks — because this is America, and if we wanted mute athletes, we'd go ask Michael Phelps to put his iPod back in.

Unfortunately, the LPGA just realized that its biggest chunk of revenue dollars comes not from Titleist, but from broadcast licensing fees from — get this — Korean television [via Salon]. So the league pulled the order for English-speakers only and pretended it did so for the sake of diversity .

The fact that this diversity is only comprised of "about five to seven" of the 45 Koreans on tour who don't speak passable English will be glossed over for more of that sweet, sweet Korean won that the American fashion industry has become so fond of.

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