Beginning off 10 tee, the Texas alum was bogey-free 5-under thru 16 holes, circling five at 16, 1, 2, 4 and 6, before finishing par (missed birdie from 10'7"), bogey-5 (failed scramble) and par (missed birdie from 12'4"). He’s in the top 10 at the three-quarter pole for the first time since last season’s 149th Open in July (Royal St. George’s) as an alternate, where he was T6 before finishing a major-tying-best solo 5th (66-67-70-68), and the time before that, was at the 84th Masters two Novembers ago, where he was solo 5th before finishing T5 (65-73-67-72). When the South African won his lone TOUR title on debut at the 2019 John Deere, he was T5 thru 54 holes (2 back), and won by two after a 7-under 64. This week, his second appearance (CUT/2019), he’s posted laps of 69-68-68 (MP-SH-PB), and gained 3.069 strokes tee-to-green in R3 but lost 0.973 with the flat stick. The 31-year-old will play out of the fifth-to-last group in the finale.