http://cephyn.com/2008/08/27/lpga-ladies-polyglot-association/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:04:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://cephyn.com/2008/08/27/lpga-ladies-polyglot-association/#comment-3143 LPGA Comes to its Senses | cephyn Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:42:14 +0000 http://cephyn.com/2008/08/27/lpga-ladies-polyglot-association/#comment-3143 [...] Earlier, I talked about the LPGA policy to suspend players that could not pass an English proficiency exam. Well, it took them about a week, but the LPGA has decided to rethink the policy. I should hope so. They buckled under both criticism from media and players, but it seems that what finally did them in was criticism from sponsors. Not a big surprise that they go where the sponsors say, but at least they took the right stand. For example: One of the tour’s title sponsors, State Farm, already weighed in this week by saying it was “dumbfounded.” “We don’t understand this and we don’t know why they have done it,” State Farm spokesman Kip Diggs told Advertising Age on its Web site. “And we have strongly encouraged them to take another look at this.” [...] […] Earlier, I talked about the LPGA policy to suspend players that could not pass an English proficiency exam. Well, it took them about a week, but the LPGA has decided to rethink the policy. I should hope so. They buckled under both criticism from media and players, but it seems that what finally did them in was criticism from sponsors. Not a big surprise that they go where the sponsors say, but at least they took the right stand. For example: One of the tour’s title sponsors, State Farm, already weighed in this week by saying it was “dumbfounded.” “We don’t understand this and we don’t know why they have done it,” State Farm spokesman Kip Diggs told Advertising Age on its Web site. “And we have strongly encouraged them to take another look at this.” […]

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