unbelievable...say it isn't so jackie plung...why johnny miller has not spoken english in years and he is an anchor person...this debate is silly...if a mute plays on the lpga..then what!!!! we need to be understanding then the lpga...the lpga should take a chill pill and let those who can play golf alone....

We have baseball, football and basketball players that can barely speak English but that appears to be no big deal. BECAUSE ITS ALL ABOUT THE PLAY not the language! Nice to see the LPGA trying to move the country backwards 100 years!

This is too freaking much.Something about this has a foul smell.When i have my coffee i'll be back to tell ya's what it is.I agree with the guy that said they should learn to speak spanish too because thats all you hear at my Walmarts too.

For all the comments on this, there are some court decisions involving the PGA. Basically, if one does not like the rules to a not-for-profit volunteer association (like the PGA or LPGA) DON'T JOIN!<br /><br />This decision had to do with personal grooming, Mac O'Grady, many years ago.

Take a lesson from a lady named sorenstam, if you want to live here & play golf here speak english & have dual citizenship

what about this??? <br /><br />If players can't pass the oral test, they have to hire interpreter for PRO-AM game and post-game interview until they pass the test..

By the way. What the he!! does this have to do with the LPGA.

Industry<br />My comment was about the state of this country when Clinton left office. I don't care who's pocket the Enron's guys were in. And i don't care who you would leave your Daughter with. You Clinton guys are all the same, You think you need to defend his record but back away from his morals. I also don't care who you learned your morals from. I also said I am not a Bush guy. I will acknowledge a good point you did make. A good Prez. will bring people together.

Andy, baseball would do it if the corporate sponsors starting backing out because during pro-am events and tournaments the players can't communicate with a majority of the viewing public. Others like the IOC, FIFA and UEFA do it just because english has become a largely international business language.

This is discrimination!! "you need to speak english in order to play" that's dumb. it's all about talent. so i'm guessing there going to do this for baseball too? right? there's a lot players that can't speak english. this is really bad. this like the story when they banned the 9 year old kid because he's too good.

The content of BBaldry article it sounds like the LPGA tour and its players are on board, including the Koreans. We have to remind ourselves that though golf is a sport, it is also a business and must run like a business. If the LPGA wants to increase sponsoreships it must increase participation at the am levels including high schools. Participation in the last few years has increased two fold by women. This is what the LPGA has to work on also getting more grass roots participation at younger ages. Why dont we see more Junior High school programs. The first Tee program is great but it misses the middle class suburban kids all together. The middle class kids can not afford the cost of a round of golf anymore than the inter city kid. The growth potential of this sport lies with women. I hear that out in San Diego the junior golfers can play for almost nothing at some of the greatest courses. What happen in Ohio and other states.

Tkaudi,<br /><br />?Taking Saddam out did not de-stabilize the region, our just being there did.?<br /><br />?Iran is not going to do a damn thing, because they know if they did launch a nuke against Israel . . .)<br /><br /><br />(?????)<br /><br />- Saudi Arabia is inhabited by Arabs and is Sunni.<br /><br />- Iran is inhabited by Persians and is Shia.<br /><br />- Sunni and Shia have fought for 1,500 years!<br /><br />The removal of Saddam who was Sunni and who ruled with an iron fist over his Shia nation destabilized the little stability that region had.<br /><br />Once we leave Iraq . . . whether it next year or in 15 years . . . Iraq will revert to a Shia Fundamentalist Nation on the doorstep of the Western World?s PRIMARY SOURCE OF ENERGY.<br /><br />It will be Iran?s influence on a fundamentalist Iraq, as well as their influence on the oil-poor people of the region (Syrian, Jordon, Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan) that stands to destabilize Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.<br /><br />Forget Israel . . . this isn?t about them. Good grief, they don?t have any oil and they?re as much of the problem as Ahmadinejad.<br /><br />IHSC

"who do you think you?re taking to?" Taking to? <br /><br />Holy crap IHSC made a spelling mistake. You're right on a lot of things but thre is nothing black or white about this situation. It has been a chain reaction stemming from 9/11, Bin Laden, Middle East unrest, terrorist support, Saddam, Oil, Genocide. <br /><br />As you stated what you would do with Bin Laden and tactical missile attacks in the mountains, how come with the intel Clinton had on Bin Laden, nothing happened? I am asking not trying to start something, I thought you might know.

Tkaudi,<br /><br />"The problem with Saddam was that he was committing genocide against the Kurds."<br /><br />(end)<br />Oh, that was the problem? Really?<br /><br />Islamic fundamentalist are committing genocide in Drafur . . . are we doing anything about that?<br /><br />Oh, that?s right . . . we buy oil from the Saudi?s and China has already locked up the oil leases in the Sudan.<br /><br />Come on Tkaudi . . . who do you think you?re taking to?<br /><br />IHSC

Tkaudi!<br /><br />I'm in the U.S. Defense Intel business (ELINT, ACINT, COMINT, HUMINT), please even dare go there with that, "Clinton reduced the intelligence and spy networks to next to nothing", excuse.<br /><br />U.S. Human Intel resouces world-wide started their decline in the 1980's under Ronald Reagan you goof! <br /><br />Those assets were replaced with high-tech spaceborne, airborne, surface, and sub-surface intelligence gathering devices. That's my business you dork! <br /><br />Ever hear of the KH-11 and KH-13 KeyHole Programs? Do you know what Naval ELINT, COMINT, and ACINT gathering devices are?<br /><br />This was the direction the DIA wanted to go. They wanted to manage the assets, not the civilain CIA. And that's where Reagan and the Congress spent the money. The Defense budgets under Reagan were monumental! The DIA surpassed the CIA in both assets and manpower.<br /><br />Ever hear of Fort Meade (Crystal City). They make the CIA at Langley look like a 7-11!<br /><br />You can debate me on golf (but I'll win that debate, too) . . . but on Defense Intel . . . I'm Einstein, you're a 1st Grader.<br /><br />IHSC

And as diestolies has pointed out a 2 different posts, this English policy is the norm on many professional sports fronts. It is easier in many markets to conduct business in 1 language as opposed to 30 diferent languages. Your whole position IHSC on this was is because the American women suck. I don't think Creamer sucks, I don't think Kerr sucks, and if Michelle gets her head on straight and fires her parents and management she won't suck. This is all about the need to bring in the money. Sponsors had no problem when Annika was doing well and she is not American. She is retiring, there largest draw is gone in 2009, sponsors saw that, who is there to take the reigns, currently it is many non-english speaking members, that worries the sponsors who from the sound of it have not had the kind of "experience" they need from these members.

Please, Clinton reduced the intelligence and spy networks to next to nothing, all the while being advised of the threat of Bin Laden, they even knew of his location and of many of his plans. If he had the balls to take him out then, none of this today would have ever happened. We would have never had to go to Afghanistan, and we would never have gone to Iraq. The problem with Saddam was that he was committing genocide against the Kurds. Taking him down got rid of his evil, but in no way did it stop us fighting every freaking terrorist (most of which are not from Iraq). Taking Saddam out did not de-stabilize the region, our just being there did. Iran is not going to do a damn thing, because they know if they did launch a nuke against Israel, A) it most likely can be shot down B) every free country in the world would rally together in blow the tehran off the map. Most of these leaders know this, to launch something that full scale will have the opposited affect that the terrorist leaders want to achieve. Yeah, they will have mass distruction but it also gives the world a reason to unify. <br /><br />The best bet against oil right now is to stop speculation. There is no reason that a natural resources needed by the entire world should be sold, re-sold 100 times over on the market to companies just to make some $$$ who have no intention of taking delivery of the oil. That would keep prices more in line with supply and demand, not artificial demand that Wall Street creates. <br /><br />And lastly on the subject but Bush Sr war was a much simpler task than W's is today. Sr. had to drive out an imposing army back home. W is fighting religious nutballs who came out of the woodwork, who have negard for anyone, and think that when they strap a bomb to their chest and take out a bunch of innocent people that they will be rewarded with 76 virgins. We don't have a true target right now, there is no city to invade, no government to cripple, no army to drive back.

Tkaudi!<br /><br />Bill Clinton rode in on the ?coat tails of Ronald Reagan? That?s hilarious. Talk about ?revisionist history? and ?political spin?.<br /><br />Didn?t Bill Clinton?s presidency follow George Herbert Walker Bush?s? You know that guy who was voted out of office after going back on his campaign promise of . . . <br /><br />?READ MY LIPS . . . NO NEW TAXES?!<br /><br />Yeah, I remember now . . . George Herbert Walker Bush was V.P. during the Reagan administration, and despite his best intentions HAD TO RAISE TAXES because of the MASSIVE debt his processor left this country. <br /><br />Did you forget that part?<br /><br />Listen Tkaudi, I voted for George H.W. Bush twice! He was great. His administration?s leadership during Operation Desert Storm was everything the son?s is not. But Ronald Reagan was a huge spender . . . exceeded only by George W. Bush.<br /><br />Listen fool, I?m a Barry Goldwater ?fiscal conservative?! Read Goldwater?s 1964 manifesto titled, ?Where I Stand?. His views on fiscal policy are great. He wouldn?t recognize todays so-called Conservative Republican who have lost sight of fiscal responsibility.<br /><br />Security?<br /><br />Barry Goldwater, the first Bush, and Bill Clinton would have never have gotten us in the Iraqi mess we?re in.<br /><br />- Richard C. Clarke was the Anti-Terrorist Czar under the last four Presidents at the Cabinet Assistant-Secretary level. Read his, ?Against All Enemies? to get his view of who was asleep at the wheel prior to 9/11. You won?t like the answer.<br /><br />- In 1991, the first Bush had the good sense not to go into Iraq and remove Saddam. He and Colin Powell felt no Iraqi was worth dying for. They?re still right today.<br /><br />Further, the first Bush also knew that as evil as Saddam was, he was the COUNTERWEIGHT to Iran. Remove Saddam and the whole region becomes de-stabilized. And that is exactly what has happened.<br /><br />- Although, thousands of miles away - the political uneasiness in the Middle-East has economic reverberations throughout our economy. Gasoline in this country would probably be $1.00 less a gallon if there was just the ?same? political instability in that region as there was during the Clinton Administration.<br /><br />- The falling value of the U.S. Dollar as it relates to our Security? Middle East oil is traded in Petro-Dollars. The Saudi?s, Kuwaiti?s, Russians, Libyan?s and Venezuelans? have financial reserves flush with U.S. Dollars.<br /><br />But, because of this Administration?s refusal to PAY FOR ITS OWN INCURRED DEBT, we have borrowed huge sums from the Chinese, Brits, Japanese and Koreans. That borrowing combined with our declining economy . . . has seen the ?faith and trust? in the U.S. Dollar take a huge hit. A dollar isn?t worth as much these days.<br /><br />So, if you?re OPEC member and have huge reserves of U.S. Dollars that are falling in value every day, and you can?t spend them fast enough - what do you do? You raise the price of a barrel of oil to $120.00 to make up the short-fall.<br /><br /><br />Add it all up Bubba . . . do you really feel safer and more secure today? The last I checked, that bass-tard Bin Laden was still on the loose . . . despite Bush?s trillion dollar folly in Iraq.<br /><br />If I was G.W. Bush, I would have had the balls to launch three (3) tactical-nuclear Tomahawks into the mountain tops of Tora Bora . . . and all our boy?s would have been spared and home safe.<br /><br />And guess what? After radiating the desolate northwest Afghani landscape for the next 25,000 years . . . no one would mess with us for a long, long time.<br /><br />IHSC<br /><br /><br />P.S. - But I digress.<br /><br />- Carolyn Bivens is a boob!<br />- Angela Park has a swing like Hogan?s, speaks three languages and is a doll.<br />- Natalie Gulbis is trailer trash, has a swing like a chopper and eyes like a raccoon.

Emansopinion: please don't try to help. Athletes get into the country on work Visa's and other ways, there is nothing illegal about it. Please don't try to help.

Emansopinion:<br />The LPGA decision that English should be spoken to communicate with others Pro-Am, Sponsors, Media etc. is a positive if the players from abroad make there way to the U.S. to play Golf they should speak the language to communicate with the Rules officals during a dispute or during the discussion of a rule violation which could hold up play, to holler Discrimination is not warrented with this requirement, The LPGA is not saying you need to speak English to play, that would be Discrimination. The Korean players are very Nationalistic and although they are good Golfers they do not want to be apart of the total package if you want to playb on the LPGA, get the fame and fortune you must learn thew art of communicating in American language those basic things that most people in America should know how to speak. Where the heck is the Imigration and Naturilization Service, some of these players need to be checked out"How did they get into America? Are they Legal? The U.S. is so down on The Mexican Americans or people from Mexico maybe they should look at the Golfers that get to America by going through second and maybe third countries....others know our Imigration Laws better than we Americans do because we are from America. All you Golfers that do not speak the BASIC English that The LPGA is requesting should be ashame of yourself for crying thats the least you should do if you want American Money, look at the big picture No English, maybe No Sponsor thats unAmerican you need to conform to the standardset by the LPGA or maybe they can rename it NESLPGA Non English Speaking LPGA...."Negative"...not in America