If you can't beat 'em, make them pass an English profiency test on the ladies pro golf tour

On the LPGA tour, South Korean players are beating the heck out of duffers from the United States.

In fact, more and more American women can't even qualify for the tour. Korean players now have won more than a third of the 121 spots on the tour. And seven of the top 20 players are Korean.

So the LPGA this week announced a new rule that players must pass a verbal English proficiency test by the end of 2009 or be suspended. Not everyone must take the test; only people identified as needing to take the test. What constitutes profiency? Who will do the judging of proficiency? Who says who needs to be tested? What happens if a person is deaf and there is no one on the tour to read sign language?

No one knows these answers. But I bet the winnings of the players may determine who gets targeted and who doesn't.

It's amazing. Here is another anti-diversity knee jerk. Here is another instance of Americans crying over non-citizens taking their jobs.

For the LPGA, it does not matter if the person scored best for the place on the tour. It's the same with non-sports jobs. It doesn't matter if immigrants work the hardest and the longest, on weekends and at nights, and businesses want them.

Meritocracy no longer matters in America. It's all a matter of entitlement, particularly if non-citizens are better and more devoted to the job and task.

All hail, former U.S. Sen. Phil Gramm. America, a nation of whiners as he described it, has now descended further into irrationality with the LPGA English rule.