Parents are flooding a Colorado golf course with complaints and other arrangements are being made for future events after children in a youth golf league were exposed to an "adult" event for patrons of a Denver strip club and dozens of the strippers who work there.
"I cannot tell you the girls didn't flash out there," Evelyn Koch, the manager of the Eagle Trace golf course, told KUSA-Television in Denver.
The situation developed this week when members of the Gold Crown Junior Golf Association, ages 7-12, were trying to finish up a tournament at the course in Broomfield. Before their event was completed, however, limousines carrying participants and strippers for the Shotgun Willie's Golf Tournament started arriving.
"When I walked into the club house to look for my girls, I saw a woman straddling a male at a dining table," a mother told the station. She asked not to be identified, but contacted the station after the story first was reported because she was concerned Eagle Trace officials were minimizing what happened.
On their way home, the mother reported, her children asked, "Mom, why is she only wearing underwear?" and "Mom, why are the girls wearing white and why do the men have water guns?"
The station reported there was disagreement over how the conflict happened.
Koch reported she told Gold Crown its youth event would precede the adult event. Gold Crown Golf Coordinator Jim Hunt denied that.
In an e-mail to parents of the young golfers, he apologized for the "inappropriate behavior in the clubhouse."
"Unbeknownst to us, the Eagle Trace management decided to schedule a second event which included 'adult entertainment' in their restaurant during our youth event, and they did not consult with our staff nor inform us that this would happen," he wrote. "Had we known this type of event was taking place, our staff would have made sure no children were allowed in the restaurant area.
"This type of activity is totally unacceptable around our programming and we do not condone the type of behavior your children may have witnessed today," he wrote.
He said "alternate arrangements" are being made for remaining events on June 30, July 14 and July 21.
Broomfield police said neighbors' later complaints prompted them to break up the event that had strippers serving as caddies to strip club patrons.
Koch said it was a simple matter of "mistiming." She told the station the exotic dancers should not have been in the clubhouse with the children.
Dustin Moser, a golf instructor, said there was nothing "inappropriate" while the children and strippers were in the clubhouse together.
That happened later, he told the station.
"There was a handful of girls that got a little out of control," he said, and several were scolded for "top-dropping."
Shotgun Willies boasts about its risqué events. Its website carries the warning: "Shotgun Willie's provides entertainment for adults only, and may not be politically correct, so if you are under 18, or a pansy a-- left liberal, or a right-wing bible thumper who might be offended by our humor, DO NOT open this site!"
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