The 26-year-old, who’s made nine cuts this season and missed seven, boosted his chances of making the postseason with a major-best, and career-tying-best T14 (as an alternate) at last week’s U.S. Open, where he was solo 10th thru 54 holes. That bumped him to 160th in the FedExCup standings, is currently up another 26 spots to 134th, and has a home-state event upcoming at the John Deere Classic, but tomorrow’s finale will have a sense of urgency with just five weeks remaining in the regular season. This is the Illinois alum’s third time in the top 10 thru 54 holes in 28 career events, is chasing a first top 10, and will be in the fifth-to-last pairing on Sunday with R1 co-leader J.T. Poston. Thru three days in Connecticut, he’s signed for rounds of 67-64-68, totaled 15 birdies against four bogeys, four versus two today, and ranks 22nd SG: Tee-to-Green (4.642), 0.104 of that in R3, and 14th SG: Putting (4.070), including a 0.685 SGP on Saturday.