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- LPGA English Policy: Fast Response
- It took no time for us to get our first response to the LPGA's new English language policy, which will require that LPGA players speak enough English to conduct interviews. Jennifer Morrow is an English...
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- LPGA English Policy: One more word
- Gene Balfour of Woodburn, Oregon, writes to defend Commissioner Carolyn Bivens and her now-reversed policy to impose penalties on players who do not achieve a rudimentary level of English. He takes exception to comments by...
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- LPGA English Policy: The final word?
- Larry Underkoffler of Kennesaw, Georgia, may have provided the final word on the LPGA English-language controversy: This policy was a classic bone-head decision often attributed to WASP males. When Ms. Bivens recanted, it became a...
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- The LPGA's English Policy
- For the many of you who were interested in and commented upon LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens' controversial policy requiring foreign players to learn English, Karen Crouse's story in Sunday's New York Times is a...
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- LPGA English Policy: No More
- A letter from Golf World reader Dean Toriello of Grand Rapids, Michigan, landed a few hours before the LPGA reversed its new English-language policy and a few hours after State Farm Insurance, an LPGA sponsor,...
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- LPGA English Policy: Responding to Bivens
- Michael Suvalle of Framingham, Mass., is the latest to address the LPGA's new English-language policy. He takes on Bivens' statements in Golf World this week: Carolyn Biven's explanation to Golf World regarding the recently announced...
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- LPGA English Policy: More Letters
- The LPGA English-language policy continues to be a hot topic with media and our readers alike. Here are two of the latest letters, both supporting Commissioner Carolyn Bivens: At the risk of being labled a...
