Some Teed Off At Charity Event's Topless Caddies

A charity golf tournament at a Fairfax County, Va. country club this week included topless female caddies and an auction of young women to accompany about 120 male golfers in their carts.

Officials at the Ridgeview Country Club in Centreville said yesterday that they didn't know in advance that there would be topless women at the tournament, which was billed as a benefit for the American Heart Association.

The Heart Association also disavowed knowledge of the event and said it was returning a $975 donation from tournament organizers.

Tournament organizer Bill Bayne, who owns a topless club in Arlington, Va., denied any impropriety. He had hired the golf course for the day.

Bayne acknowledged that two women at the tournament were topless but said they were not among the women officially involved in the event and were brought there by golfers who had hired them from a "strip-o-gram" agency.

No one complained at the time, he said.

Bayne said that 10 to 12 women, about half of whom work at his topless club, were hired as official caddies for the tournament.

"It's definitely not a first," Bayne said. "Have I seen girls out on the course nude? Yeah . . . They've got nude tournaments, topless tournaments all over the country."