Golf briefs

YOUTH ON COURSE: A Utah-based nonprofit organization called Youth on Course, has recently been approved as an official chapter of The First Tee national program, which gives underprivileged children the chance to play golf. The main purpose of The First Tee is to expose children, who may not otherwise have the opportunity, to golf. The First Tee of Salt Lake City will be run out of the Jordan River Par-3 course.

WEIR TOPS MONEY LIST: Draper's Mike Weir continues to lead the PGA Tour's money list with $4,046,392 in earnings, just ahead of Davis Love III. Provo's Dan Forsman ranks 62nd with $628,959, while ex-BYU golfer Dean Wilson is 75th at $500,165. Another former Cougar, Andy Miller, is 187th on the list, while St. George's Jay Don Blake is 191st.

MICK RILEY MEMORIAL: Park City's Julie McMullin won the Mick Riley Memorial at Meadow Brook Golf Course with a 73, four shots ahead of Jennifer Peirce. Valerie Green was the net winner with a 68. Flight winners included Jackie Brophy, Cathy Hill, Sherry Bearden and Matina Young in gross and Michele Thompson, Deborah Midgely, Rozanne Broomhead, Uji Bymaster, Lenora Hutchins, Chris Parker and Char Van Wagenen in net.

ZOELLER WINS PAR-3 SHOOTOUT: Two days after finishing tied for fourth in the U.S. Senior Open, Fuzzy Zoeller was the easy winner in the Par-3 Shootout on Tuesday, finishing with $330,000.

Fred Couples, last year's winner of the two-day, 18-hole skins event played at Treetops Resort, finished with $90,000 as did Lee Trevino, who was shut out over the final nine holes. Phil Mickelson, who was bothered by a sore neck, won $30,000.

Each skin was worth $20,000, while the player closest to the pin on each hole collected another $10,000. A hole-in-one was worth $1 million.

"None of us hit the ball very, very well today," said Zoeller, who won two holes worth $100,000 each on Tuesday. "There was enough of a breeze out there to make us feel uneasy, but it was fun."

TOP-FLITE SOLD TO CALLAWAY: The Top-Flite Golf Co. filed for bankruptcy on Monday and said it would sell its assets to club maker Callaway Golf for $125 million.

Top-Flite CEO Jim Craigie said his company's $250 million in sales last year were deluged by $530 million debt in a market that was too competitive. Under the deal Top-Flite would retain its debt. Craigie said he doesn't expect any interruption in supply, production or distribution of Top-Flite golf products.

He said Carlsbad, Calif.-based Callaway plans to continue making Top-Flite, Ben Hogan and Strata golf products, which account for about 70 percent of Top-Flite's sales.