Tour Championship: Rory McIlroy & Paul Casey well placed

Rory McIlroy and Paul Casey are well placed after the opening round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta.

Swede Henrik Stenson shot a seven-under sixty three to guide by 2 shots from Englishman Casey, with Northern Ireland's McIlroy one stroke additional adrift.
World most wanted mythical being Day finished on one beneath once day one amongst the PGA Tour's season finale.
Day is one amongst 5 players for whom finish would conjointly mean they win the FedEx Cup, and with it a £6.6m bonus.
Stenson is another, with Americans Jordan Spieth, Rickie Fowler and Bubba Watson creating up the quintet.
Spieth opened with a two-under sixty eight, Fowler shot a sixty nine and Watson began with aseventy.
With McIlroy, Spieth, Day and Fowler all aged but twenty eight, Stenson joked that he felt a part oftheir generation of young stars.
"It feels sensible to be a part of that wave," aforementioned the 39-year-old, World Health Organization has not won a title this year.
Henrik Stenson
Henrik Stenson won the FedEx Cup playoffs 2 years past

Henrik Stenson won the FedEx Cup playoffs two years ago

"When you reach my age and you hit but several countless golf balls I've done over the years, the body undoubtedly feels it.
"It offers satisfaction once you are on prime of the leaderboard in any tournament. it has beenplenty of mythical being and Jordan and Rickie and Rory, therefore after all it's sensible to inducea decent begin."
The Tour Championship is that the last of the four FedEx Cup play-off events, with a field of thirty having been whittled down from the one hundred twenty five World Health Organization competed within the initial.
McIlroy is eleventh within the FedEx Cup standings, and desires to win and hope the 5 main contenders end down the sector.
He recovered from a bogey at the second with a hat-trick of birdies from the seventh.
Stenson, World Health Organization is trying to win the FedEx Cup for the second time in 3 years, birdied the primary 3 holes, picked up another shot on the sixth and eagled the ninth, tenth andtwelfth.
Casey had set AN early club target of sixty five during a spherical that includes six birdies and one bogey.
South Africa's Joseph Louis Barrow Oosthuizen, meanwhile, had to withdraw once thirteen holesas a result of a hamstring injury.