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Seeing beyond stereotypes: Haney fiasco highlights problems facing South Koreans

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If you aren’t intrigued by Korean women in golf, you don’t care enough to pay attention.

That’s one of the big problems the LPGA still faces.

American media barely pays attention to the women’s game.

Beyond the tiny nucleus of writers regularly covering the LPGA, major news outlets don’t bother going beyond picking up wire reports. Often, it’s even that way at the majors.

Hank Haney was openly and unabashedly dismissive of the women’s game on his SiriusXM Radio show last week. As a high-profile figure in an influential position, he basically said he couldn’t care less about professional women’s golf and its biggest event of the year.