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To: MNlurker
Being able to knock the ball in the hole with the least amount of strokes is the only language that should be considered.

Golf is a high class game. You don't realize when watching but all those guys are adhering to a whole bunch of behavioral rules that have nothing to do with golf. (See anyone smoking anymore? It's not just that the TV cameras turn away from smokers. The pro-golfers just don't smoke on the courses anymore. I attended two days at Bethpage this year and I don't recall seeing a single player or caddie with a cigarette or a cigar. True, Daly wasn't there!) Watch tennis, and see all those little Russian girls. They all speak English, or French in France, it seems to me, when a trophy is presented to them. These guys are working when they're playing golf here; and I just think that people who want to work here should know some English. They don't have to be able to perform Shakespeare, but they should know some English. I know it's an old fashioned view, but I cling to it.

ML/NJ

55 posted on 08/16/2009 6:21:49 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

If he is a naturalized Citizen as somebody posted you would think he would have some ability to speak english


59 posted on 08/16/2009 6:32:55 PM PDT by uncbob
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