Win probabilities: Fortinet Championship

After a tough opening day of competition, the Americans have some ground to make up against Europe in the final days of the Ryder Cup.

A week in the Bahamas was just the break Dustin Johnson needed from driving fast and going nowhere. But he nearly took a step back. Johnson removed his right shoe and slowly peeled off his sock to reveal white gauze wrapped around his fourth toe. That would explain why he was walking so slowly in the early rounds at The Northern Trust, sometimes 30 yards behind the rest of the group. He was in the ocean and felt a light scrape on his foot. Once he was out of the water, he discovered his toenail had been sheared off to the skin just above the cuticle. “No idea how it happened,” Johnson said. “I didn’t want to say anything about it. I didn’t want it to sound like an excuse.” Besides, it only hurt

Ariya Jutanugarn has made playing without a driver fashionable. Jutanugarn appeared poised to cruise to victory, holding a seven-shot lead as she headed to the final nine, but made triple bogey 7 on the par-4 10th hole to allow Hyo-Joo Kim an opportunity to make things interesting. Kim did just that with birdie bombs of 35 and 50 feet on the 12th and 15 holes to narrow the margin to one, before Jutanugarn nailed a 7-iron on the 197-yard, par-3 16th hole to three feet and a clutch birdie, extending the lead to two.