ON THE LINKS | Thursday’s professional golf results

TOUR CHAMPIONSHIP

ATLANTA

Dustin Johnson was in trouble from the start Thursday, just not for very long. The game feels easy for the U.S. Open champion, who began his bid for the FedEx Cup title on Thursday with a 4-under 66 to share the lead at the Tour Championship. Johnson had 165 yards from the sand and worried about getting it over the lip of the bunker. He hit 8-iron to 2 feet for birdie and was on his way to his sixth consecutive round at 68 or lower.

NATIONWIDE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL CHAMPIONSHIP

COLUMBUS

South Korea’s Whee Kim shot a 6-under 65 to take the first-round lead in the Web.com Tour Finals’ Nationwide Children’s Hospital Championship. Kim had seven birdies and a bogey on Ohio State’s Scarlet Course in the third of four events that will determine 25 PGA Tour cards. Kim is 35th on the series money list with $9,975 in two events after finishing 127th in the PGA Tour’s FedEx Cup standings.

WORLD AMATEUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP

RIVIERA MAYA, MEXICO

Cameron Davis and Harrison Endycott each shot 5-under 66 at Iberostar Playa Paraiso to help Australia take an eight-stroke lead in the World Amateur Team Championship. A stroke behind Scotland after the opening round at Iberostar Playa Paraiso, Australia had a 19-under 267 total — one off the 36-hole record set by the United States in 2012.

U.S. SENIOR WOMEN’S AMATEUR

WELLESLEY, MASS.

Ellen Port won her third U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur title and seventh USGA championship, beating Andrea Kraus 3 and 2 at Wellesley Country Club. The 55-year-old Port, from St. Louis, also won the event for players 50-and-over in 2012 and 2013 and the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur in 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2011. With seven USGA women’s titles, she’s tied for second place with Carol Semple Thompson and Anne Quast Sander, one behind JoAnne Gunderson Carner.

U.S. SENIOR AMATEUR

ST. LOUIS

Dave Ryan won the U.S. Senior Amateur for his first USGA championship, holding off Matthew Sughrue 2 up at Old Warson Country Club. The 62-year-old Ryan, from Taylorville, Illinois, won the Illinois Senior Amateur by nine strokes last week. He beat two-time Senior Amateur champion Paul Simson in the round of 16 and two-time U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Tim Jackson in the semifinals.

EUROPEAN OPEN

BAD GRIESBACH, GERMANY

Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger had an eagle and nine birdies in an 8-under 63 to top the European Open leaderboard in the suspended first round. Play started 3 hours, 25 minutes late because of fog, with many players unable to finish before dark. Italy’s Renato Paratore had a 64, and American Daniel Im, England’s Steve Webster, Sweden’s Michael Jonzon and Denmark’s Lucas Bjerregaard shot 65.

Associated Press