In poker, you play the cards you’re dealt. In golf, you play the course as it stands, and if the situation set up well for a low score, you’d better take advantage, because it could change before you tee it up at your next hole.

The situation at TPC Boston were excellent early and hideous late, but that gave Zach Johnson and Jason Day, playing together, time enough to post a clubhouse-leading 63. And thanks to the impending arrival of Hurricane Earl, players got an unexpected benefit — the ability to lift, clean and place balls in the fairway, in the event the round was delayed by weather. And indeed, Johnson and Day got in just before a 90-minute weather delay. Excellent thing, too, because Johnson’s not just looking to advance to the next round of the FedEx Cup playoffs; he’s in suspense to snag a captain’s pick to the Ryder Cup, to be announced next week. So, yeah, excellent time to post a 63.

Johnson passed the weather’s benefit on his score. “Now, with the fairways rolling quick and some wind today, the scoreswould not have been this low,” he said. “So if we get rain, ball doesn’t roll inthe fairway, ball doesn’t roll on the greens, you’re going to see lowscores throughout the week. If we don’t get a whole lot of rain or ifwe get some wind to dry it out, it could dry up and be hard. Soit’s all weather-based.”

In the back of his mind — heck, in the front of his mind, is the Ryder Cup. Johnson is making a case for a captain’s pick, but he’s not there yet. When questioned if he’d been watching in 2008 although he wasn’t on the team, he didn’t hesitate with the aptly resolution:

“I watched every second of it, or nearly every second of it,” he said. “As I toldCorey, 2010 Ryder Cup captain, it was one I was cheering for them likecrazy. I feel like we’re all on that team [as Americans], it’s just a matter ofputting 12 guys out there to go play. It would be an honor, and I wantto get on that team very, very terrible.”

Johnson is a honestly excellent bet to get a pick, but a win this weekend would just about lock it up. So far, so excellent.

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