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Lorie Kane believes members of the LPGA Tour already have a universal language - golf.

But the LPGA thinks differently. It will require golfers to speak English starting in 2009, with players who have been members for two years facing suspension if they can't pass an oral evaluation of English skills.

There are 121 international players from 26 countries on the LPGA Tour, including 45 players from South Korea. With such diversity, the tour sees the policy as a necessary step for its players.

"Why now? Athletes now have more responsibilities and we want to help their professional development," deputy commissioner Libba Galloway told The Associated Press. "There are more fans, more media and more sponsors. We want to help our athletes as best we can succeed off the golf course as well as on it."

The international players have had no shortage of success on the course.

Sixteen of the top-20 current money earners were born outside of the United States. Eight of those women are South Korean followed by two Swedes, two Australians, a Mexican, a Norwegian, a Brazilian and a Taiwanese.

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But you know this stupidity is aimed directly at Korean athletes who are out shooting white middle class American women. That must be stopped until they at least sound like white middle class Americans when interviewed. This sure looks blatantly racist.

Edited to add link: LPGA Enforces English only Rules in 2009

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So will the NHL follow suite and tell all those Russkies they have to speak better English

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Not many people in BC care about French except as it relates to the constitutional right of French Canadians to service by the federal government in French. That English French thing is a Central Canada concern not a BC concern.

French in Metro Vancouver is spoken by less people than those who speak Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Punjabi, German, Italian, Spanish, Tagalog. Even in Coquitlam which includes the old historic French community of Maillardville the number of French speakers is less than both Chinese languages and Korean and in fact French comes in in eighth place of Mother Tongues and not in the top ten of languages spoken at home.