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FARMINGDALE, N.Y. -- Patrick Reed didnt break anything Thursday except par.Two days after Reed broke the gavel during the ceremonial closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange, the American kept a clean card and shot 5-under 66 to share the lead with Martin Laird at The Barclays.Reed was dressed in a blue blazer with an American tie when he was asked to bang the gavelthree times at the stock exchange closing on Tuesday. On the third hit, the top of the gavel flew off into the crowd, and Reed later made a joke at his own expense on Twitter.They told me to give it 3 good hits, so I did! he tweeted.He was much better with a golf club in hand at Bethpage Black, running off three birdies and an eagle on the front nine to close out his 66.The start of the FedEx Cup playoffs, with a $10 million bonus waiting at the end, was more about a cup that doesnt pay a dime. A dozen or so Americans are still in the mix to make the Ryder Cup team. Qualifying ends after this week for the top eight, and then Davis Love III has four captains picks over the next month. Reed is winless this year and holding down the No. 8 position in the Ryder Cup standings.Reed and Laird were a shot ahead of three other Ryder Cup hopefuls -- Rickie Fowler, Kevin Chappell and J.B. Holmes, whose 67 was the best score among those who played in stronger wind in the afternoon. Defending champion Jason Day, the No. 1 seed in the playoffs, was among those at 68.The Barclays is the start of a four-tournament series in which the field size shrinks until 30 qualify for the finale at the Tour Championship. Laird started at No. 89, and with only the top 100 in the standings advancing, starting well was crucial.U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson, the No. 2 seed in the FedEx Cup, recovered from a bogey-bogey start to post a 70, while Adam Scott (No. 3) shot 69. Jordan Spieth had a 71.British Open champion Henrik Stenson withdrew after a 74 because of pain in his right knee.CANADIAN PACIFIC WOMENS OPENPRIDDIS, Alberta -- Three-time champion Lydia Ko was back on the Canadian Pacific Womens Open leaderboard. Canadian star Brooke Henderson got left behind after a late start.The top-ranked Ko shot a 5-under 67 on Thursday at Priddis Greens in the round delayed for nearly three hours because of lightning, leaving her two strokes behind leader Chella Choi.Ko has won three of the last four years, the first two as an amateur. The 19-year-old New Zealander has four LPGA Tour victories this season, winning the ANA Inspiration for her second major title.The 18-year-old Henderson was 1 under with three holes left when play was suspended because of darkness. Henderson, from Smiths Falls, Ontario, beat Ko in a playoff in June in the KPMG Womens PGA for her first major title, and successfully defended her Cambia Portland Classic title in early July.Choi was 7 under with four holes left. Celebrating her 26th birthday, the South Korean player made consecutive birdies on the par-5 18th and first holes and also birdied the par-4 second and fourth.Northern Irelands Stephanie Meadow was a stroke back after a 66. Frances Karine Icher -- playing alongside Choi -- was 6 under with four holes left.MADE IN DENMARKFARSO, Denmark -- Tom Lewis flirted with the first 59 in European Tour history, then made three late bogeys and settled for a 9-under 62 and a share of the Made In Denmark lead.Lewis made a 45-foot eagle putt on the par-5 fourth hole to reach 12 under through 13 holes at Himmerland Golf and Spa Resort. He needed to play even par over the last five holes for a 59.He bogeyed the next hole and closed with two more bogeys to drop into a tie for the lead with Belgiums Thomas Pieters and Swedens Joakim Lagergren. Swell Canada . He just needed to be his best twisting, turning acrobatic self. "I didnt need to be anybody else, I just needed to be myself and be aggressive," said Burks, who scored a career-high 34 points to spark the Utah Jazz to a 118-103 victory over the Denver Nuggets on Monday night. Swell Wood Bottle Sale . The formidable trio of Canadian receivers -- individually known as Chris Getzlaf, Rob Bagg and Andy Fantuz -- will share the field at Mosaic Stadium one more time on Sunday. http://www.swellbottlesaleclearance.com/ . Rob Manfred, baseballs chief operating officer, testified last week during the grievance filed by the players union to overturn Rodriguezs 211-game suspension. A person familiar with the hearing, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press on Saturday that Manfred testified the sport wasnt concerned whether Bosch distributed performance-enhancing drugs to minors because MLBs interest was his relationship with players under investigation. Swell Water Bottle Clearance .ca looks back at the stories and moments that made the year memorable. Real Wood Water Bottle . In taking its goal tally to 99 in all competitions already this season, City delivered another demonstration of its lethal firepower at Etihad Stadium to set up a fourth-round match at home to another second-tier team -- Watford. Swedens?Alex Noren?is in pole position to claim a fourth European Tour title of the season after the weather-affected second day of the?Nedbank Golf Challenge.Noren carded a second round of 67 at Sun City to reach the halfway stage of the ￡5.7million event on eight under par, two shots clear of Englands Chris Wood, Paraguays Fabrizio Zanotti and home favourites George Coetzee, Louis Oosthuizen and Jaco van Zyl.Victory on Sunday could take Noren to within 500,000 points of Race to Dubai leader and fellow Swede Henrik Stenson, who is seven shots off the pace after struggling to a 74.And it would also take the 34-year-old into the worlds top 10 for the first time, having been ranked 110th in May before winning the Scottish Open, European Masters and British Masters.Zanotti had earlier recorded the first hole-in-one in the tournaments 35-year history, following birdies at the first and second by holing out from 210 yards with a seven iron on the fourth.It was a great start, I couldnt believe it, Zanotti, who bogeyed the last two holes in his 68, told Sky Sports. It sounded strange when the tournament people told me I was the first to do it, but lucky for me that Im the first one.I fought hard all day long and Im in a very good position for the weekend.Oosthuizens flawless 66 was the lowest score of a second round delayed by an hour and 42 minutes due to the threat of lightning, which meant play ended in near-darkness.I felt like I hit the ball reeally well on Thursday but couldnt keep bogeys off my card and it was great to finish level after all that and then sort of build on the momentum going into today, the former Open champion said.dddddddddddd I feel good over the ball and just need to make a few putts.Ive won the Dimension Data here before, I love this place and its great playing on a great golf course. Theres a lot of holes where you think you can overpower it by just bombing a driver but I took the hard route today, a few three irons and a lot of five woods off the tee to give myself a mid-iron into the green.Stenson had started the day just a shot off the lead, but the Open champion carded a hat-trick of bogeys from the third and also double-bogeyed the 14th before repairing some of the damage with birdies on the 16th and 18th.The 40-year-old can end the season as European number one for the second time in four years with a victory this week, providing his nearest rival Danny Willett finishes outside the top 10.Masters champion Willett has struggled for form recently but looked like improving on his opening 75 when birdies on the seventh and eighth took him to the turn in 35.However, Willett then carded a double bogey on the 13th and dropped another shot on the next on his way to a second round of 74 to occupy a share of 54th place on five over. ' ' '