"Matthew is almost the lone westerner left on the walls as the women from the Orient line up for the final attack like warriors in some film by Kurosawa."

Mark Reason's third round Women's Open Championship game story takes a shot at the emergence of Asian players in women's golf and features some quotes from Marsha Evans about how to deal with this uh, matter.

Heaven knows the women’s game in these parts needs a boost because it is in danger of being inundated by an Asian Tsunami. Matthew is almost the lone westerner left on the walls as the women from the Orient line up for the final attack like warriors in some film by Kurosawa. Ten of the top 13 players after the third round are from Asia or have Korean dads.

In recent years they have taken over the LPGA Tour. Asians have won five of the last seven tournaments on the LPGA and four of the previous seven majors. How many of you out there can name the current holders of the women’s majors. Indeed how many can even name the four majors.

None of this would matter a jot, of course, if the game was amateur. But it is not and the thing that distinguishes professional golf from the amateur game is the need to entertain people. If no one in the west is identifying with a lot of these players, then the women’s game is heading for a massive commercial crash in America and Europe.

Why is it that in these racially divisive rants--this one the edgiest I can recall--never question why non-Asians are doing such a lousy job developing great female players?

I guess that would require a look inward and well, we know that's not a favorite pastime of the race in question.