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Trevino, Zoeller score big in skins

GAYLORD, Mich. - Lee Trevino and Fuzzy Zoeller each won $90,000 Monday in the opening nine holes of the Par-3 Shootout, defending champ Fred Couples picked up $60,000 and Phil Mickelson earned $10,000.

Each par 3 in the 18-hole skins event is worth $20,000. The player closest to the pin on each hole collects another $10,000. Players do not collect a skin until they validate it with a win or tie for the low score on the next hole. Any hole-in-one is worth $1-million.

Trevino was closest to the pin five times. He won a $40,000 skin with birdie on the 139-yard eighth and validated it with par on the final hole. Zoeller, 51, who finished tied for fourth in Sunday's U.S. Senior Open, won his $90,000 on the 141-yard fourth when he was the only player with birdie.

"This was exciting for me," said Trevino, 63, who has not played competitively this summer. "I had five closest to the hole, and that's winning for me, with the caliber of the guys I'm playing with."

TOP-FLITE BANKRUPT: Top-Flite Golf Co., the world's largest golf ball producer, is filing for bankruptcy and plans to sell its assets to clubmaker Callaway Golf. CEO Jim Craigie said the company's $250-million in sales last year was crushed by its $530-million debt in a market that was too competitive. Under the deal, which needs government approval, Callaway would buy Top-Flite for $125-million, free and clear of debt.

After three horses were injured in the first four races at a Boise, Idaho, track Sunday, jockeys walked out in protest over unsafe conditions and races were suspended. One horse died later. Afternoon temperatures reached the mid 90s at Les Bois Park. "On these real hot days, the track gets dry and loses moisture. The surface can become unsafe," trainer Bret Vickery told the Idaho Statesman.

EMPIRE MAKER'S BROTHER DIES: Chester House, half-brother of Belmont Stakes winner Empire Maker, was euthanized after complications from cancer. The 8-year-old son by Mr. Prospector out of Toussaud won the 2000 Arlington Million and earned almost $2-million for Juddmonte Farms.

CHAMPION FILLY SIDELINED: Storm Flag Flying, a 2-year-old filly who is winless is two starts this year, will miss two months with a fractured bone in her right rear leg. She won all four starts last year, including the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies.

Michael Phelps won the 200-meter individual medley in 1 minute, 57.94 seconds, breaking Finn Jani Sievinen's 1994 world record of 1:58.16. Phelps, 18, set the mark at the Santa Clara (Calif.) Invitational on Sunday. Phelps also holds the world record in the 400 individual medley (4:10.73).

Lance Armstrong will be joined by almost the same team that supported his Tour de France victory last year. The nine-man U.S. Postal Service squad has one new member: Spain's Manuel Beltran replaces Benoit Joachim for the race that starts Saturday. Beltran will help the team in the hills, Armstrong said.

LITHUANIAN SUSPENDED: Raimondas Rumsas failed a second drug test that confirmed the result of one from the Giro d'Italia on May 16. He was suspended by his Italian team, Lampre. Last year, Rumsas' wife, Edita, was detained more than two months for carrying suspected doping products the day her husband finished third in the Tour de France. His tests from that race were negative.

OLYMPICS: Men's and women's Bike Moto Cross, or BMX cycling, will be added to the 2008 Beijing Games and will replace two track cycling events, yet to be decided.

REGATTA: Alinghi, the Swiss team that won the America's Cup in March, will race Oracle, a U.S. team, on San Francisco Bay Sept. 15-20.