A prominent private Vancouver-area golf club has developed an English-language-only policy for its prospective members, similar to the one the LPGA Tour has said it plans to implement for its international players.
According to a report in the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Golf Club in Coquitlam—B.C.’s second-oldest golf course—has recently begun rejecting membership applications from individuals who can’t speak English.
General Manager Brent Gough, whose club has played host to two previous LPGA Tour events and hopes to land another one within the next five years, said the club changed its policies after it encountered problems with some of its new Korean members.
“It got to a point where we had signed up a lot of Korean members and it wasn’t long until they were breaking many of the rules and weren’t participating because they couldn’t read anything or speak or communicate with us,” Gough told the Sun.
Gough said the club has had no complaints about its language policy.
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