Friday, September 3, 2010

Day Shares Lead at Golf's Deutsche Bank as Hurricane Threatens New England

Jason Day and Zach Johnson share the lead at During the first round of the U.S. PGA Tour's Deutsche Bank Championship near Boston, as Hurricane Earl threatens Thurs hit the New England area.

Day, of Australia, and Johnson, of the U.S., were at 7 - under-par through 14 holes at the TPC of Boston course in Norton, Massachusetts, one shot ahead of Matt Jones, Ryan Moore, Ryan Palmer and Fredrik Jacobson.

Tiger Woods, Ken Tied for 12th place at last week's Barclays tournament in New Jersey, is playing the first hole.

While Woods is winless in 10 PGA Tour events this year, they Remains in contention to win at his third to FedEx Cup title in four years. They have entered the Deutsche Bank in 65th place in the FedEx Cup standings, up from 112th a week earlier.

The Boston-area course is just west of the likely path of Hurricane Earl as plotted by the U.S. National Hurricane Center. The storm Passed the Outer Banks of North Carolina and was headed toward New England and Nova Scotia packing winds of 105 miles (165 kilometers) an hour on the weakening overnight.

Earl was 130 miles east-northeast of Cape Hatteras, moving north-northeast at 18 mph, the hurricane center, Said is the ITS website shortly before 8 am Miami time. Its winds not have dropped from 145 mph yesterday, making Earl a Category 2 storm, the second-weakest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale.

The storm is Expected Thurs 50 to pass within 100 miles of the popular tourist destinations of Cape Cod and Nantucket before going ashore in Canada. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood watch for southern Massachusetts, Cape Cod and the islands. As much as Six inches of rain is Possible, the agency Said

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