Golf is the language spoken by the LPGA

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Here’s what they’re speaking at the Samsung World Championship that started today at Half Moon Bay: Birdies, bogeys, pars.

The usual stuff, and don’t you think the LPGA Tour is glad that it scrapped its English-language dictum it wanted its players to embrace? You remember that one? At a players meeting at a tournament, the LPGA told players they needed to be able to be competent in English or face losing their playing privileges.

Of course, most of the players who would be affected were South Korean, so a major public relations hit took place.

Anyway, back to Samsung. Here’s why: Eight of the 20 players in the field are South Korean.

-- Thomas Bonk