LPGA Tour's English rule caught many in Korean community by surprise

[Francis Hult]

ESPN

 

LPGA Tour's English rule caught many in Korean community by surprise

 

Meena Lee smiled and took a step back. Then another. Then a third and a fourth. Her face melted from warmth to confusion, then fear. She shook her head. She looked down, up, everywhere. She turned bright red. 

 

Lee's moment of near-panic came at her gym, after a workout, when an American reporter asked for her thoughts about the LPGA's new guidelines on speaking English. It seemed Lee couldn't think of a single English word. Yet the 22-year-old spent the better part of the previous hour speaking serviceable English to her personal trainer, Andrea Doddato, who knows almost no Korean.

 

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http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/columns/story?columnist=adelson_eric&id=3566159

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