European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday August 9, 1990 the stars and stripes a Page 19 a tournament by Hoyt Harwell Birmingham Ala. Apr sevc Ballesteros is looking for a return of Confidence and Lee Trevino is glad to be returning to the Golf course where both did Well six years ago. Trevino won the pea Chani Pion ship and Ballesteros finished fourth in the tournament at Shoal Creek a private course around which racial controversy whirled in recent weeks. Pea tournament play starts thursday at the club whose founder Hall Thompson said in june would not be pressured into accepting Black members. That remark for which he apologized prompted threats by civil rights groups to picket this weeks tournament and led some corporations to Back away from television commercials they had planned. Negotiations led the club last week to admit a Black Birmingham insurance executive As an Honora member and to Start processing the membership application of another Black. That forestalled demonstrations and led the professional golfers association of America to review its policies in tournament site selections. None of the clubs where the next four pea championships arc scheduled have any Black members. The association was to reveal its new policies wednesday As Well As make a presentation to Tom Watson As player of the decade. Quot Thompson has refused 10 comment publicly since his june remark and declined again monday except to say Quot everything s looking  Ballesteros with Only $84,584 in earnings in seven pea tour tournaments in 1990, said after a practice round monday Quot in a not very confident but pin working hard on my game. I played Well Here in 1984 and in a looking Forward to having a Good  in that tournament he finished at 279, 6 behind Trevino s 15-Undcr-. Quot pm Only 33,�?� said Ballesteros who Hasni to won a major tournament since 1988. A i  be going downhill. I should be in  Trevino is 17 years older and plays mainly on the senior tour. A i like the tour in Mon a he said. Quot the seniors is a lot easier. These Guys Here can  nevertheless he said a a it a Good to be Back Quot at Shoal Creek where he picked up $125,000 first place Money in 1984. The Winner after next sundays final round will get $200,000. Trevino said he now has no second thoughts about coming to Shoal Creek although when the racial problem arose two months ago he had said he might reconsider. He said he a hit Mem pretty Good during a practice round monday although he did not keep score. Payne Stewart will try to defend the pea title he took a year ago at Kemper lakes Golf course at Chicago. The favourites also include Nick Faldo Winner of this years British open and masters and Greg Norman the years leading Money Winner at $840,382. The Field of 150 will be Cut to the top 70 and ties after Friday s second round Over the -72, 7,145-Yard course. The total prize Money is $ 1.2 million. In the 1984 pea at Shoal Creek Black golfer Calvin Pete finished fourth at 278. The Only Black golfer entered this time is Jim Thorpe who has won $ 175,864 this year. Pre tourney favorite Nick Faldo checks his target during a Shoal Creek practice round on monday. Shoal Creek Hole by Hole he Mingham. Ala apr Holt Fly Holt a it. He 714y.dd.  7? Sli Otil Creek Curso. A. No. 1 a 4l0y�rd, -4. Two Liru fun apr. On to u�1t skip of do id it twi Ivy a Largo Bunker to do foil of to Teon  a Small orm on the front right Vukoty 8 or 9 Iron lot approach shot a no. 2 a 417-Yard, -4. To Seghi dog Ion to lha pc Nijail. Whf it a Hunker guarding the left Side of die Green requiring a High Iron Shol to Stup die halt near the pin. Like Ltd 6 or 7 Iron approach shot a no. 3 a 516-Yard, -5. 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Tight and led in Lucuil <4 Tuo up 1 requires 3 or 4 Kuri a no. 14 379-Ytrd,  4 l1uiiki-ts Bdl and right of 11m ,1 Green one of die Jun Illus err it Imis us Tiu 1 a Oil a  Tell w�kh1 met Short Iron. No. 15 405-Yifd,  4 Fulty it stir fitly up full to an Sievi Ilij sinn a 1 area and 1t�en across a Swik it the Are or Isky big and Nadinw ind oui ded on lha if jul by three bunkers the i he Calis for a 3 i i nil uu1 Ter and then it i Short imn a a a no 16 a 315-Yaid. Par 3.  time plays due nil in ,1 Peen  Sli Altow m depth Arm end outages a High Friy pm Iima Jim Len ski Quot a hand rough bad and in it in. No. 17 a 530-Yard,  5 requires a  it Shrut will no Ltd a in us mat must Havu of Tiffit  the id Tang surface Windmi smrt in  Arnm and Luth Jorfi and a Hunker him in it no. Ii a 446-Ytrd,  4 Impi. A Quot. A a. Ira a m  inc in a g or 1 Iron 0 the Green where Lour a it uhf it Trie a .1 Swile .1 i i in deems Green has a 3 a 4 a a Ile in Nikki lie Shoal creeks the Rule not the exception by Hal Bock a i sports writer professional Golf is almost exclusively a White game played on White courses with no Black members in 15 of 21 private clubs chosen to hold National pro and Amateur championships Over the next five years. An associated press Survey shows that All White private clubs will be the Sites for the next four pea championships three of four . Opens through 1995 and the next two . Women s opens and . Women a amateurs. Most private clubs Are tight lipped about membership rosters especially in the Wake of the uproar preceding this weeks pea championship at Shoal Creek Golf club in Birmingham Ala but some members and officers Are More revealing. Quot we have a female doctor of chinese descent who plays  said Rob Laubach a member at Crystal Downs in Frankfort mich., site of the 1991 . Senior Amateur. Quot but i believe iter husband is the member.�?�. There no Blacks or women at Oak tree in Edmond okla., Host of the 1994 pea but club president Hugh Edgmon said he Quot suspects Quot there Are some hispanics because Quot some members have dark coloured  Eor All the reticence All but one of the 22 private courses contracted for future Gas the . Menus women a and senior opens and the . Menus women s and senior amateurs provided at least limited information about their memberships. The exception was Oakland Hills in Birmingham mich., site of the 1985 . Open and next years . Senior open. Club general manager Ray White said there was no policy against minority members Hui. Citing a Quot traditional policy of confidentiality a he would not say if any Are currently in the club. The Survey also found that a a at least one club has no women members while one also has no jewish members and four include no hispanics. A a while most All White clubs have no written policies against Black members Many say no Blacks have Ever bothered to apply perhaps discouraged by sleep membership fees and dues. A the major seniors tournaments have the Best record. Two of the next three senior amateurs and two of the next four senior opens Are at integrated clubs. Aronimink Golf course in Newtown Square pa., site of the 1993 pea is typical of the courses in the Survey. John Brooks club attorney at Aronimink said there Are no Blacks among the 35 members because none has Ever applied. The pea tour said last week that it will give. No new tournament Conn acts to any course that Lias even the appearance of discrimination. But that affects Only tour events and not the major championships the pea and the various events run by the Urga. And through 1994, the pea is scheduled to be held at All White clubs crooked Slick Golf club in Carmel ind., in 1991, Bellerive in St Louis to i 992, Aio Nir Nink in 1993 and then Oak t ree. Quot it starts with the Way we conduct our National championships and where we take them Quot agreed Urga president Gram Spaeth. A we can to say anymore that we re simply leasing lie property for the week of Competition and everything s of if a Bercy a no discrimination that  the next two . Opens arc at a Weltme in has a minn., where Hacks have been members and a Pebble Beach Calif which was not included in the a Survey because it is a Public course. But the three alter that a Baltusrol in Spring to n.j., in 1993, Oakmont near Pittsburgh in 199 1 and Shinn Ecock on Long Island n.y., in 1995aie on courses with no Black members. Finding private courses capable of staging a major and having Black members is not that easy. The Urga estimates that three of every Lour private Goli dubs in the country have membership restrictions of some kind