Highlights | Jason Day locks in the overnight lead at BMW Championship
PGA Tour: Only the weather could stop Jason Day at the BMW Championship on Thursday.Day began his latest quest to reach No. 1 in the world by holing out from a fairway bunker for eagle and powering his way to nine birdies. The PGA champion was 10-under par through 17 holes when the first round at Conway Farms was halted because of approaching storms.Day had just hammered a tee shot 346 yards with the wind at his back, leaving him 44 yards to the hole at No. 9. He needed to hole that shot for a 59, and he had to wait until Friday morning for that. The round was to resume at 7:30 a.m.Day won the FedEx Cup opener at Plainfield for his fourth tour victory of the year. The Australian was four shots ahead of PGA Tour rookie Daniel Berger, who had a 6-under 65.Jordan Spieth had a hole-in-one and followed with a chip-in from 80 feet for birdie to get his game on track. He was at 5 under.It was the best show of the PGA Tour"s postseason, even for a Thursday that was interrupted by a dark and stormy sky north of Chicago. The group of Day, Spieth and Rickie Fowler Nos. 1-2-3 in the FedEx Cup attracted an enormous gallery and the players delivered one great shot after another.Day"s shot from 79 yards in a fairway bunker on No. 1 landed beyond the hole and spun back a few feet for eagle to get him to 6 under. On the par-3 second, Spieth"s tee shot just covered the bunker, hopped once in the first cut and rolled into the cup for an ace, the second of his PGA Tour career.Fowler, coming off his third win of the year at the TPC Boston two weeks ago, was 1 under.Web.com Tour: Brett Stegmaier played his first 10 holes in 8 under and shot a 9-under 63 to take the first-round lead in the Web.com Tour Finals" Small Business Connection Championship.Stegmaier eagled the par-5 18th for a 7-under 27 on his first nine and added birdies on Nos. 1 and 18 at River Run. The 32-year-old former Florida player finished 69th on the Web.com Tour"s regular-season money list and earned $31,000 last week with an eighth-place finish in the series opener in Fort Wayne, Indiana.The four-event series features the top 75 players from the Web.com Tour money list, Nos. 126-200 in the PGA Tour"s FedEx Cup standings and non-members of the tour who earned enough money to have placed in the top 200 had they been eligible to receive points. The top 25 players on Web.com regular-season money list earned 2015-16 PGA Tour cards. They are competing against each other for PGA Tour priority, with regular-season earnings counting in their totals. The other players are fighting for another 25 cards based on earnings in the series.Zack Fisher was second after a 65. He was 48th on the Web.com Tour money list.European Tour: Belgium"s Nicolas Colsaerts had eight straight birdies and finished with a 9-under 63 to take the lead in the Italian Open at Golf Club Milano.Colsaerts is the 11th player in European Tour history to make eight straight birdies, but he won"t get a share of the record because preferred lies were used in the wet conditions.Italy"s Francesco Molinari was tied for second at 65 with Sweden"s Kristoffer Broberg and India"s Shiv Kapur. Molinari won the event in 2006 at Castello di Tolcinasco.
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