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By Steve DiMeglio and Jerry Potter, USA TODAY
The LPGA tour will use the next four months to create evaluation procedures for its new policy requiring its member golfers to speak English or face suspension.
All players who have been on the tour for two years could be suspended if they fail to pass an oral evaluation of their English proficiency starting at the end of the 2009 season.
The evaluation will assess communication skills, including conversation. Players will be required to conduct interviews, interact with pro-am partners and fans and give acceptance speeches in English and without the help of an interpreter, according to LPGA deputy commissioner Libba Galloway.
"For an athlete to be successful in the sport-entertainment business we live in today, they need to perform on and off the field of play, and communicating effectively is a big part of that," Galloway said "We are a U.S.-based tour, and the majority of our pro-am players, our fans, our sponsors speak English."
It is an issue that has been developing for the last decade, according to Michael Stearns, who was the tournament director of the ADT Championship from 1996 to 2005.
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"No one ever complained," Stearns said of amateurs who paid to participate in pro-ams, "but they were definitely frustrated when they didn't have a similar experience of a year before when they were with a player who spoke English.
"It's unfortunate the LPGA has to create a policy to force players to do something that they should want to do on their own."
Though LPGA star and South Korean Seon Hwa Lee told Golfweek, which broke the story, that the players understand, many observers outside of golf don't.
Phillip Lee, the chairman of the board of Korean Quarterly, a newsletter dealing with Korean-American issues based in Minneapolis, said Wednesday that he was stunned by the LPGA's directive and his publication will pursue the story.
"I would 100% support a program that helps foreign-born players," Lee said. "But to threaten them with suspension. … I don't understand why they are going about it as a program of punishment rather than reward."
Last year, the tour established a cross-culture professional development program that includes tutoring services and language-learning software to help players assimilate. "They don't have to speak perfect English," Galloway said. "But our players have to be able to communicate with our fans and sponsors."
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