SILVIS, Ill. -- It was the ultimate ham-and-egger eagle.

But a flyer that bounded off a ShotLink tower, bounced gently through the rough and trickled nicely into the fifth hole at TPC Deere Run on Saturday left Daniel Summerhays thinking about a hamburger commercial.

“It reminded me of old Michael Jordan and Larry Bird commercials – off the rafters, off the backboard, nothing but net. You know? “ Summerhays said of the least probable of a bevy of birdies and eagles put up by the grouping of Summerhays, Scott Brown and Jhonattan Vegas in the third round of the John Deere Classic.

Brown vaulted into Sunday’s second-to-last pairing with a career- and tournament-low round of 10-under 61 that left him two shots behind leader Brian Harman’s 17-under 196. He is another shot back of three-time JDC winner Steve Stricker and tied for fourth with Zach Johnson, William McGirt and Jerry Kelly.

Vegas rode a more conventional eagle to an 8-under 63 and put himself in good position to reclaim his TOUR card while playing in his third to last event on a Major Medical Exemption. He will start Sunday in a group tied for eighth.

Summerhays’ improbable eagle followed a more routine eagle on the par-5 second and he finished at 6-under 65 for the day.

In sum, the trio was 24-under, and their best ball total was a nifty 55.

“Yeah, we kind of got it going early,” said Brown, who briefly considered the possibility of a 59 on his own ball while eying a 17-foot eagle putt he didn’t convert on the par-5 17th. “We were all making a bunch birdies and it just turned into a really special day.”

Summerhays’ improbable deuce cranked up the good vibes.

“Just laughter,” Summerhays said of the group-wide reaction. “A lot of times we feel like all the bad bounces happen to us, so it was refreshing to think that something good like that can happen, too.”

Without benefit of the net-covered tower and the trampoline-liked rebound that resulted, Summerhays said double-bogey or worse might have resulted when his 9-iron approach from 148 yards jumped from an awkward sidehill lie.

“We couldn’t believe it, simple as that,” said Vegas. “That’s the kind of shot you could try a million times and it would never happen again. I told him it was the best eagle I’ve ever seen. “

Even without the best-ever eagle, it was a special day.

“Well, they are great guys to play with for one thing,” Brown said. “And it’s a bonus when you start making birdies and everybody is feeding off each other. It’s like, he made a birdie, I better make one on the next hole. It is a great mentality and great to have a group like that.”