LPGA wants to require English
The LPGA or the Lady’s Professional Golf Association is stupid. Why? It wants to require golf players to pass English proficiency tests or they will be kicked out of the LPGA. This is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard of. The motive is business and marketing. So are you telling me that if I am the best golfer in the world, but do not know the difference between the English ‘past perfect conditional tense’ and the ‘present continuous tense’ in English I can not play golf? For example five time major winner Se Ri Pak could speak English, but not up to par for the LPGA and so she was suspended. Why not do this for all sports? Why not take away Gary Kasparov’s chess title as he does not speak perfect English, or suspend the Brazilian or Italian soccer players as they can not pass an English language exam. Again the motives of the LPGA are business. If a corporate sponsor shells out millions for the golf game, they want to be able to interview the winner in English. I teach English and I would love to give the initiator of this LPGA idea a test on English tenses, and I am sure I could make an exam that would feel like a day in the sand trap on a golf course.
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