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CARMEL, Ind. -- Rory McIlroy suddenly has new life in what had been a drab season.All it took was a phone call to British putting coach Phil Kenyon, a little work and a little patience, and a victory in the Deutsche Bank Championship that reminded McIlroy what had been sorely missing in his game.He doesnt need to putt great. He just needs to avoid putting poorly.I was looking at the stats from my win here in 2012, McIlroy said Wednesday at Crooked Stick for the BMW Championship. And I think out of 70 players, I finished 49th in strokes gained putting and won by two, shot 20-under par. So you dont have to putt great, but you cant putt poorly, either. If you have a great ball-striking week, if youre sort of just average in putting, you can have a great chance to win.McIlroy ended another season without a major, though that victory at the TPC Boston on Monday moved him to No. 4 in the FedEx Cup and gave him a clear shot at the $10 million bonus, which he has never won. McIlroy was the best player in golf in 2012 (when he won at the TPC Boston and Crooked Stick in successive weeks) and in 2014 (when he won the last two majors). Both times, someone else played better and won the FedEx Cup.And theres one other cup at the end that could turn a major-less year into a sweet one.If I can play the way I am playing through the next two events of this FedEx Cup playoffs and into the Ryder Cup, I still wont have achieved what I wanted to achieve this season, but its a nice way to finish the season off, he said. Its not a bad way to finish the year.On the other side of this is Jason Day.He surged to No. 1 in the world by playing better than anyone the first half of the year, winning at the Arnold Palmer Invitation and the Dell Match Play, and then adding The Players Championship. But he didnt win a major, losing by one shot to Jimmy Walker at the PGA Championship. In fact, he hasnt won since May.Even so, Day finds himself in a remarkably tight race with U.S. Open champion Dustin Johnson for player of the year.The PGA Tours award is a vote of the players. The PGA of America award is based on points. Day leads 80-76 in the points race, mainly because he has an ultra slim lead on Johnson in adjusted scoring average (0.008 difference) and a $507,527 lead on the money list.More troublesome to Day is this minor drought hes in.The worlds No. 1 player has had his chances, losing a late lead in the Bridgestone Invitational and failing to catch up to Walker at the PGA Championship. He wasnt a serious contender at either of the two FedEx Cup playoff events.But its a fine line, and Day could only laugh when it was mentioned that he had gone nearly four months without a victory.Of my goodness. I should start another profession then, right? he said.The only difference he can detect is missing a few more fairways, which he figures will lead to more birdie chances, better scoring and more trophies. He made it sound so simple, and for a short burst in the spring, he made winning look simple.I want to get back to that, Day said.A victory in either of the last two events might be enough for him to win the FedEx Cup -- if he wins the Tour Championship, hes assured of that -- and make this year as good as it can be without having a major.For everyone else, its a matter of getting to the Tour Championship.The top 70 in the FedEx Cup advanced to the BMW Championship, though Henrik Stenson at No. 24 took the week off to rest. 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WASHINGTON -- Back when Ryan Harrison participated in the 2011 edition of the hard-court ATP tournament in the nations capital, he was still a teen, still considered the next big thing in American mens tennis, and still talking about wanting to be, in his words at the time, a multiple Grand Slam champion.Harrison lost to Viktor Troicki that week. As it happens, all of these years and hiccups later, Harrison played the same guy again Wednesday at the same event, and this time he won, eliminating the 10th-seeded Troicki of Serbia 7-6 (4), 6-4 to reach the Citi Opens third round as a qualifier.For Harrison, now 24 and nearly a decade into his professional career, it represents the first time hes won back-to-back main-draw matches in 2016. It also represents a real step back in the right direction for someone who reached his career-best ranking of 43rd in 2012 and is now 158th.Mentally, its been an up and down ride over the last couple years, because the hardest thing to do when youve had early success and you hit a speed bump is to let go of the negative. You can dwell on so many things. At so many stages of my career, Ive been angry and irritated. Ive been discouraged. Not depressed in my life, but disappointed with the way that Im playing, Harrison said in an interview after beating Troicki in front of a standing-room-only crowd.You can get in a sulky mode. Everything thats built up from negative moments can creep back in, continued Harrison, who was born in Louisiana and is now based in Texas. The biggest thing for me moving forward is just being who I am today. I know what I can do, I know the level Im capable of playing, and when I do let go of all that stuff then I feel I give myself chances to win. Because I dont doubt myself from an ability standpoint.Harrison converted only three of 22 break points, but he counted it as a positive that he didnt let all the missed chances get to him.When youre in a situation like Im in -- that you havent won a ton oof matches -- it seems like its tough to convert on opportunities.dddddddddddd And its easy to get discouraged. You miss your first couple, and you feel like youve lost the match, he said. For me, the biggest turning point for this week, compared to other weeks, has been when Im not getting that first opportunity, (Im) staying in there and creating more.Next for Harrison is an all-American matchup against fifth-seeded Steve Johnson, who beat Adrian Mannarino of France 6-3, 6-4.Others advancing included top-seeded John Isner, No. 2 Gael Monfils -- who hadnt won a match since early May and said hed missed time on tour recently because of a virus -- No. 3 Bernard Tomic, No. 6 Jack Sock and No. 15 Marcos Baghdatis.In a match between two of the three teens in the ATPs top 100, seventh-seeded Alexander Zverev of Germany saved all five break points he faced and overwhelmed Taylor Fritz of the U.S. 6-4, 6-2. They were born six months apart in 1997, but Zverev brushed off the idea that this was a significant meeting of two members of tennis next generation.It doesnt mean a lot for the future, Zverev said. We both know that theres a lot of improvements to be made for both of us.The third teen in the top 100, Borna Coric, won Wednesday and faces Monfils next.In womens play, wild-card entry Jessica Pegula defeated Christina McHale 7-5, 6-2. Pegula, whose parents own the NFLs Buffalo Bills and NHLs Buffalo Sabres, reached the quarterfinals of a WTA tournament for the first time.McHale, who pushed Serena Williams to three sets at Wimbledon, is the sister of Harrisons fiancee, Lauren.Their wedding date is in next March, which coincides with the closing weekend of the Masters tournament in Miami.So, noted Harrison, sounding as confident as ever, we are hoping to have to reschedule.---Follow Howard Fendrich at http://twitter.com/HowardFendrich ' ' '