Sunday, July 12, 2009

Si Ri Pak

In 1998 - Si Ri Pak was the only Korean on the LPGA tour.

Of the top-ten finishers (including ties - 16 players) in this weekend's Open Championship, 10 were from Asia.
In the decade since Ms Pak's win, there are now 45 Korean women on tour.

Today, Eun-Hee Ji became the forth Korean woman to win The Open in the last eleven years.
The largest revenue source for the LPGA is it's television contract with Korea.
All this in spite of the LPGA's recent racist efforts to limit the number of Korean players participating on tour by (unsuccessfully) requiring their participants to speak English.
The Koreans didn't complain about the racism of the sport's governing body.
The Koreans didn't complain about those who became successful also becoming too bougie.
The Korean women just changed the complexion of the sport by dominating the LPGA.

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