Fall 2025

It’s no joke to the club’s leadership that when asked by the PGA Tour in 1990 to disclose its membership and/or admit a black member that the ultra-private club dropped out of the annual AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am (formerly Crosby’s pro-am) rotation, and galleries have not traipsed on the grounds since. But for the 50thWalker Cup amateur match- es between the United States and Great Britain & Ireland on September 6 and 7, the club will be open to the public for galleries and worldwide television cameras (though limited to towers and hand-held cameras). It will be the second time Cypress Point has played host to the Walker Cup. The U.S. team defeated Great Britain & Ireland 15-9 in September 1981. While media attention was on the racial con- troversy in 1990, the Cypress Point members were privately relishing the peace and quiet of not playing host to the AT&T. The spotlight turned to the club once again in December 1991 whenVice President Dan Quayle stayed in one of the four guest rooms and played as a guest, much like President Dwight D. Eisenhower did in 1956. Quayle is now a club member. By the mid-1990s, without fanfare, the club admitted its first black member, a prominent business and academic leader who was a trail- blazer in college athletics in the 1960s. He is also a member of Augusta National. Another promi- nent black leader in academia and politics, for- mer Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, is also a member of both Cypress and Augusta. Cypress has admitted a handful of other mem- bers of color. “Cypress Point was way ahead of its time,” says Vince Lucido, who caddied at the club for 52 years and is honorary caddie coordinator at