<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on the <a href="http://illinois.edu/goto/weboflanguage">Web of Language</a>: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">LPGA to golfers: speak English or get off th</font></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#010101">e tour</font></span><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">The <a href="http://www.golfweek.com/protours/lpga/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 65, 113); ">LPGA is going English-only</a>. Following the lead of <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=1013&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 65, 113); ">the Salvation Army</a>, <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=2084&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 65, 113); ">St. Anne Catholic School</a>, and <a href="http://illinois.edu/blog/view?blogId=25&topicId=73&count=1&ACTION=VIEW_TOPIC_DIALOGS&skinId=286" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 65, 113); ">Geno's Steaks</a>, the Ladies Professional Golf Association has made English its official language. Not only that, the association told the Korean golfers on the tour that even if they're winning tournaments, they'll have to start speaking English by 2009 or face suspension.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> </p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">The LPGA defended its new rule by arguing that golf is entertainment as well as sport. It further insisted that amateurs playing with the Korean pros in U.S. pro-am tournaments were not amused when their partners couldn't sufficiently entertain them in English.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span> </span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">While requiring golfers to speak English feeds into the ongoing mania for declaring English official everywhere Americans gather, golf itself originated not in the U.S. but in Scotland, in the 15th century. The sport, or entertainment, if you prefer, didn't become popular in England for another 150 years, and it didn't <a href="http://www.charlestononlinehomes.com/Golf_Course_Homes/page_1709069.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(65, 65, 113); ">cross the Atlantic</a> until the 1780s, when Scottish merchants set up the first course in Charleston, South Carolina.</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "> </p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Presumably women were excluded from the South Carolina Golf Club, as this first golf course was known, along with Africans and the occasional Jew or Catholic who might turn up, regardless of whether or not they brought their own clubs, or their willingness to entertain the members. . . . </div><div style="line-height: normal; 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