Annandale Club Withdraws : Golf: It will not be site of the 1993 Women’s Amateur because it would not have a minority member by the time of the tournament.

The fallout from apparent discriminatory membership practices that caused a furor last August before the PGA Championship at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Ala., has affected future golf tournaments.

Annandale Golf Club in Pasadena, which was to have been the site of the 1993 U.S. Women’s Amateur, has withdrawn as the host club.

Also, a golf club in suburban Chicago has decided to withdraw as host of the 1993 Walker Cup matches rather than to draw attention to the fact that it does not have minority members, a member of the U.S. Golf Assn. said Wednesday.

In withdrawing as the host club for the 1993 Women’s Amateur, an Annandale club spokesman said: “The waiting list for membership in Annandale would put us in a position in 1993 as a club that we wouldn’t have a minority member. It was a decision of the board of directors to withdraw the invitation.”

The spokesman added that the club does not want the integrity of the waiting list to be violated.

The Chicago Golf Club, in suburban Wheaton, pulled out as host of the biennial Walker Cup competition last week after several discussions with the golf association, USGA Executive Director David Fay said.

“It was all their decision,” Fay said. “They decided they didn’t want to deal with the scrutiny that hosting such an event would entail.”

The 125-member, 99-year-old golf club has no minority members or voting female members, which violates a USGA guideline established in November. The rule was adopted shortly after charges of racial discrimination were leveled at Shoal Creek, an all-white club that was scheduled to hold the PGA Championship.

Subsequently, a black member was admitted to Shoal Creek after several sponsors of ABC Sports and ESPN telecasts asked that their commercials be withdrawn from the PGA event and placed on other programs.

The Shoal Creek controversy also prompted all the major golf associations to adopt a policy of not holding events at any club that has discriminatory practices on the basis of race, religion, sex, or national origin.

Pat Rielly, head professional at Annandale, was president of the PGA of America during the Shoal Creek incident. He was unavailable Wednesday.

Fay said the Chicago Golf Club backed out because it did not want any enrollment of minorities to be connected to the Walker Cup. He added: “They were concerned that (minority enrollees) might be perceived as the ‘Walker Cup woman’ or the ‘Walker Cup black’ member.”

The Chicago Golf Club played host to the Senior Amateur in 1979 and last had the Walker Cup in 1928. The Walker Cup is a two-day amateur event pitting a U.S. team against a British team.

Chicago Golf Club President Robert E. King and other officials at the club were unavailable Wednesday.