http://www.sportsline.com/mcc/messages/chrono/8844691

Golfweek magazine reported on its website Monday that speaking English will be a requirement starting in 2009, with players who have been LPGA members for two years facing suspension if they can't pass an oral evaluation of English skills.

The tour held a mandatory meeting with South Koreans last Wednesday at the Safeway Classic to inform them of the new policy.

I would say that more than 50 percent of the LPGA are foreigners and maybe 25-30 percent are of Korean ancestry. But doesn't this seem like an odd policy? I totally understand why they want the players speaking english for the press, but to make it official policy seems a little ham-fisted.