The Federal Club, with a $9 million Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, opened three years ago with high-profile promise. Today, the club and the surrounding upscale housing development known as Mountain Run off U.S. 33 in Hanover County is in bankruptcy protection. Mountain Run Golf Inc. and Mountain Run LLC filed for Chapter 11 on Tuesday afternoon in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond. Together they represent the golf club and course and unsold residential parcels.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Recovering from a late collapse, Troy Matteson birdied the second playoff hole to beat Jamie Lovemark and Rickie Fowler in the Frys.com Open at Grayhawk Golf Club. Matteson bogeyed the final two holes regulation yesterday to fall into a playoff with Lovemark and Fowler, who are both seeking PGA Tour cards for next year.

GOLF at San Francisco)
UNITED STATES 12½,
INTERNATIONAL 9½
Fourballs
International 2½,
United States 2½
Anthony Kim and Jim Furyk, United States, d. Angel Cabrera and Adam Scott, 2 up. Geoff Ogilvy and Robert Allenby, International, d. Stewart Cink and Lucas Glover, United States, 2 and 1.

Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker were perfect as Presidents Cup partners, and they got enough help from everyone else yesterday to put the Americans in position to stay perfect on home soil. With an improbable rally by Woods in the morning and pure putting by Stricker in the afternoon, they became the first partnership in the Presidents Cup—and the first in 30 years of any team competition—to go 4-0.

Tiger Woods and Steve Stricker dominate no matter what the format. Phil Mickelson wins no matter whom he has for a partner. It still isn’t enough for the Americans to pull away. For the second straight day, the Americans were poised to take a comfortable lead, but the International team just won’t back down. It rallied to win two late matches to split the fourballs session.

Each sport received majority support by the International Olympic Committee after presentations by top athletes including Tiger Woods, who has indicated he would play in the Olympics if golf were accepted for 2016.

One putt changed everything except the lead yesterday in the Presidents Cup. The Americans were poised to seize control in the opening session of foursomes at Harding Park, already assured of the lead and on the verge of winning the final match for a two-point advantage. Justin Leonard had a 3-foot birdie putt to win—a putt he first thought had been conceded—and was stunned when the putt caught the right edge of the cup and spun away.

Vinny Giles, who made a living as a sports representative, couldn’t have given the Virginia Legends of Golf fundraiser today and tomorrow at Independence Golf Club a better boost than with his recent victory in the U.S. Senior Amateur. Giles, 66, will tee it up at Independence, Virginia’s home for golf, along with professionals Lanny and Bobby Wadkins, Curtis Strange and Robert Wrenn in a Skins Game exhibition tomorrow at 1 p.m. The event will raise money for the Virginia State Golf Association Foundation’s junior golf program.

ATLANTA (AP)—Tiger Woods had a chance to pull away from the field. He had to settle for a one-shot lead Friday in the Tour Championship, which was still not a bad place to be.

Vinny Giles dancing gleefully around the 18th green after sinking a putt is an unlikely image of Virginia’s greatest amateur golfer. That is what the 66-year-old from Richmond did after his 18-foot, downhill birdie attempt found the cup and gave him a 1-up victory over John Grace, 61, of Fort Worth, Texas, in the final of the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship at Beverly Country Club in Chicago.

Richmonder Vinny Giles sank an 18-foot, downhill birdie putt on the 18th hole to win the USGA Senior Amateur Championship today, becoming the second player to win the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Senior Amateur titles.

Virginia amateur golfing legend Vinny Giles of Richmond advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Senior Amateur Championship with a 2 and 1 quarterfinal victory over William Doughtie of Amarillo, Texas, this morning. Giles’ semifinal opponent this afternoon at Beverly Country Club in Chicago is fourth-seeded John Pallin of Kenosha, Wis.

James River 156, Midlothian 157, Manchester 185 (9 holes, Salisbury C.C. Huguenot Course, par 36)
JR: Hobbs 37, Jaszewski 39, Stagg 40, Martin 40 MID: Bronstein 38, Grossman 39, Testin 39, Tormollen 41 MAN: Ayers 39, Hovermal 43, Ponticello 49, Adams 54

Mills Godwin 301, Deep Run 305 (18 holes, Hermitage Country Club, par 72)
  MG: MacIlwaine 74, Dozier 75, Park 76, E. Snyder 76 DR: Schumacher 71, Cantor 76, Smith 76, Bauer 82 Records: Mills Godwin 8-2-2, Deep Run 8-1

Steve Marino ran off three straight birdies late in the third round yesterday for a 3-under 68 to catch Paul Goydos for a share of the lead at The Barclays and give himself another shot at his first PGA Tour victory.