Aug 28

Memo to Carolyn Bivens: Make Koreans on LPGA Tour wear bikinis while they learn English

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Remember Jan Stephenson, the original poster girl for the LPGA?

She’s the one who said years ago the LPGA Tour should restrict foreigners, especially the Koreans, who even then were dominating on U.S. soil.

LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens hasn’t gone that far yet. Bivens is making news this week by coming up with a rule that all LPGA players must speak English by 2009.

Stephenson said she would take it much further.

“If I were commissioner I would have a quota on international players and that would include a quota on Asian players,” Stephenson told Golf magazine in 2003.

Stephenson, of course, was also known for insisting the LPGA sex itself up. She sure did her part, posing in that famous photo where she’s nude in a bathtub. Actually, she wasn’t completely au naturel.

“I had on a little bikini bottom and two round pieces of cardboard discreetly covering my nipples,” she told GOLF.com.

Look, I know you’re going to google that picture. I’ll save you some steps. Here it is.

Maybe if the Koreans took Stephenson’s advice and posed nude or semi-nude, cardboard or not, nobody would care if they can’t speak English.

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11 comments

  1. § Shanks® Email said on : 08/28/08 @ 10:04
    That's it ... poolside English class! I doubt the Golf Channel would cover that reality show. Perhaps the Playboy Channel.
  2. § Jim C Email said on : 08/28/08 @ 18:33
    And Jan Stephenson in a bikini would be their English teacher.
  3. § Tim McDonald® Email said on : 08/28/08 @ 19:12
    Now, you're thinking "outside the box!"
  4. § Shanks® Email said on : 08/29/08 @ 07:19
    Be careful what you wish for, tho. For every Grace Park, there's a Christina Kim.
  5. § BV said on : 08/29/08 @ 12:56
    Amazingly enough, Jan is STILL a hottie. And I do believe she could teach ALL the women on tour a good bit about being 'sexy'!
  6. § Oliver Sudden Email said on : 08/31/08 @ 19:51
    Of course Jan was one of those foreign players who would have been restricted so I wonder how she would have felt about that ?
  7. § Ross Email said on : 09/01/08 @ 18:17
    Jan Stephenson is a foreigner, you Moron !!!!!!

    You're a racist but you will continue be more of an idiot than a racist.
  8. § Tim McDonald® Email said on : 09/01/08 @ 18:28
    Who said she wasn't, Dilbert?

  9. § Booger Email said on : 09/02/08 @ 10:53
    Ross.....what is racism please?
  10. § BV said on : 09/04/08 @ 13:33
    Oliver...and Ross....are you OK? The rule is they players would be 'restricted' or 'fined' or 'suspended' IF they cannot speak conversational English, NOT if they were foreign born.

    I've spoken with Jan at several tournaments, and I can say with 100% confidence that she speaks 'conversational English' just FINE....and looks DAMMMM GOOD doing so! ;)
  11. § william Email said on : 09/06/08 @ 04:06
    BV,

    You really have the lowest self esteem and
    expectation of all. You must be a very
    desperate man. Jan Stevenson has more
    disgusting wrinkles than the California
    raisin. http://assets.espn.go.com/i/media/pga/2003/1009/photo/a_stephenson_vi.jpg

    Btw, ESPN article reported that LPGA's
    greatest source of TV revenue comes from
    Korean TV, then Japanese TV. Nice Job
    LPGA. When LPGA goes to CA for the
    Samsung Invitational, will Bivens require
    Americans to speak Korean. I don't think
    so.

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