The South Koreans were informed of the rule, however LPGA commissioner Carolyn Bivens has not given them - or anyone - a written explanation, Galloway said.
Well they're certainly not going to write it in Korean.
I think they were given a verbal explanation, however: the Tour needs cash, the Koreans keep winning, and sponsors must be able to talk to winners if the sponsors are to be expected to keep providing the Tour with cash. And my understanding is that many of the top Korean players have said that they understand the reasoning and agree with it.
I agree that it could have been handled better. But it's an awkward requirement for an awkward reason. I assume that the LPGA wants to present its members as competing for the glory of it all, rather than for money.
who secretly longs to be a sports blogger
Also, you mean "longs to be a game blogger."
3: I meant to make fun of golf but forgot to. Thanks for picking up my slack.
What assholery. Will deaf golfers be banned from the LPGA? If they can play why not anyone else? This is simple douchebaggery on the part of the LPGA. If the burden of providing translators in so huge, require golfers to provide their own.
I really dislike golf, in large part because the primary appeal for a lot of people is that it's expensive and therefore a marker of upper class status. Even by the high douchebag coefficient standards typical of golfers, this is notable.
It was a good effort, Stanley, but whatever the hell they're arguing about in that other thread is apparently just too compelling.
Decision makers of the world: strive not to look dickish.
Fish of the world: strive not to keep swimming.
6: Thanks, but I'm not worried. This post is gonna lure Unf back to the blog, and then I'll feel vindicated for my efforts.
Does anyone besides Bertie Wooster really say mashie niblick?
Does anyone besides Bertie Wooster really say mashie niblick?
As usual, consult Wikipedia for all your knowledge needs. The terms were rendered obsolete by the modern system of numbering irons.
12. But in Korean it means something really different. Probably dirty.
11: Aha! Now that is interesting! I have long wondered why Bertie's terms have so much more zing! than, say, "nine iron."
I really dislike golf, in large part because the primary appeal for a lot of people is that it's expensive and therefore a marker of upper class status
Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate.
I suspect golf's been in decline since they replaced the mashie niblick and friends with the prosiac numerals. Replacing a bunch of loony scotsmen wandering around in the scrub grass with whimsically named clubs by a bunch of WASP-y prats in golf pants was only the start of it.
why Bertie's terms have so much more zing! than, say, "nine iron."
He's got better writers than most.
The floppy hats and baggy knickers were pretty good, too.
Country clubs and cemeteries are the biggest wasters of prime real estate.
And yet I do not resent dead people. A hypocrite, I am.
I do. Cremation's not good enough for them, eh? Elitist bastards.
Fucking incomer-upstarts speaking English in Golf. They should all be made to speak Scots.
Off-topic, but this is a sports thread: has anyone figured out the Australians? They're inscrutable, I tell you.
I can scrute them.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra sure can keep a secret though.
This is simple douchebaggery
Is there a difference among douchebaggery, dickishness, and asshattery? Discuss.
Scruting is banned here in Australia. As are British cyclists and placing the words "Michael" and "Phelps" in the same sentence (unless it is interspersed with the word "drugs" as often as possible). The Chinese are a bunch of fakery-crazed-faker-nazi-fakesters and anyone who questions The Best Olympics Evar!! (ie. 2000) is a liberal-fascist Australia-hating traitor. Or so says the accepted wisdom of the Hive Mind down here.
26 is a question to which I have not the answers. But it's a good question.
27 is funny.
...'You have broken off the engagement?'
'Not exactly. And yet - well, I suppose it amounts to that.'
'I don't quite understand.'
'Well, the fact is,' said Celia, in a burst of girlish frankness, 'I rather think I've killed George.'
'Killed him, eh ?'
'I killed him with my niblick.'
I nodded. If the thing was to be done at all, it was unquestionably a niblick shot.
Somehow, I read the name of the magazine, Golfweek, as Wolfgeek, the first time.