An equal best round of the day from Adam Scott has kept the Queenslander’s hopes alive with two events remaining in the race for the FedEx Cup.

Scott’s 6 under 65 final round at TPC Boston, matched only by eventual champion Rory McIlroy, rocketed the Australian to outright fourth position at the Deutsche Bank Championship and sees him remain inside the top-5 on the FedEx Cup standings.

McIlroy jumped 34 places in the year long points race to overtake Scott and claim fourth position, Scott dropping to fifth heading into next week’s BMW Championship.

The top-5 heading to the final event of the season in two weeks’ time, The TOUR Championship at East Lake Golf Club, have a big advantage over the field in claiming the $10 million bonus. If any player in the top-5 wins in Atlanta, they automatically win the FedEx Cup.

Jason Day, who finished T15 in Boston, remains in second place on the FedEx Cup table and is also a legitimate chance of claiming the major prize.

Day was at less than his best most of the week and had an off course scare during the first round when his wife and children were involved in a minor car accident while he was playing.

While no-one was injured, the incident likely had an impact on Day who opened with indifferent rounds of 70-71 before finding form at the weekend to come home in 68-67 to jump from outside the top-30 to T15.

With the field for the third event of the Finals cut to the top-70, Marc Leishman and Aaron Baddeley will advance to Indiana while John Senden, who missed the cut in Boston, has seen his season end.

Leishman claimed the 70^th and final spot in the field for the BMW Championship at Crooked Stick next week with a gutsy final round 67 to move up 18 places on the final day to T46.

Baddeley, though, moved the other direction after having to finish his round putting with a wedge. A final round 75 saw the Victorian drop 11 places on the final day to T67 while he also dropped to 67^th on the FedEx Cup table.

With only the top-30 to advance to the TOUR Championship after next week’s tournament both Baddeley and Leishman will need to produce something special if they are to tee up in Atlanta.