Golf is the language spoken by the LPGA

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

Photo: Korean golfer Ji-Yai Shin plays out of a greenside bunker during the Ricoh Women's British Open Championship in Berkshire, England, on August 3, 2008. She is among the leaders after the first round of the Samsung World Championship. AFP PHOTO/GLYN KIRK (Photo credit should read GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty Images)