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So for one week a year the pro's tore up the course and that made it unplayable? I guess the members have better games than the pros? No divots???

Never heard that version before...

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From 1990...and my bad, they do allow women but not blacks:

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/18/sports/cypress-point-drops-pga-tour-event-instead-of-changing-its-rules.html

Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules


The famed Cypress Point Golf Club has become the third private club to refuse to change its membership policies to conform to the PGA Tour's new anti-discriminatory guidelines for clubs that play host to tour events.

As a result, Cypress Point, which admits women but does not have a black among its 250 members, decided last week it will no longer be one of the sites of the A.T.& T. Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, an event it has been a host to for more than 40 years. The tournament, scheduled to begin Jan. 31, is played over three courses, including Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill. The latter courses are public, so the Tour guidelines do not apply to them.

''We wanted to continue to hold the tournament,'' said Bill Borland, a member at Cypress Point and the chairman of the Monterey Peninsula Golf Foundation. ''But the PGA Tour told us that Cypress Point did not fit into its rules and regulations. There really was no negotiation.''

Tim Finchem, deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the PGA Tour, said the Tour would have invited an open dialogue with the club, adding that the Tour never told Cypress Point it would have to expedite the membership of a black or be terminated as a tournament site.

'Unwilling to Discuss Any Action'

''Certainly we would have insisted on certain things, but we never got to the point where anything was discussed,'' Finchem said. ''In the case of Cypress Point, the club indicated that it was unwilling to discuss any action it might take. They weren't going to change what they were doing.''

Although the tour's anti-discriminatory policy is a direct result of the events that took place at the P.G.A. Championship at Shoal Creek last month, Finchem stressed that the Tour does not intend to tell clubs, ''We want you to have X black members by X date.''

At Shoal Creek, after civil rights groups threatened to picket the all-white club in response to comments by Hall Thompson, the club's founder, that indicated a discriminatory membership practice against blacks, corporations led by I.B.M. pulled more than $2 million in advertising from the network telecast of the tournament. A few days later, the club accepted an honorary black member, and began regular membership proceedings to accept another.