Rory McIlroy might be a better player than he was in 2014 but his form in majors remains a massive question mark as he bids to end his near 10-year drought in the 106th PGA Championship at Valhalla this week.

Rory McIlroy has been no stranger to drama throughout his career but like many of the sporting greats of the past, he’s been able to use outside distractions to soar to even greater heights.

Rory McIlroy had a quiver in his voice throughout as questions about his private life were banned in his brief media conference ahead of the PGA Championship at Valhalla.

Rory McIlroy needs one of the greatest miracles in Masters history to complete the Grand Slam this week, but he still believes he has "half a chance" to come from ten shots off the lead and don the green jacket.

Rory McIlroy will go into the weekend a whopping ten shots off the lead after another day of pain in the Masters at an attritional Augusta National.

Rory McIlroy heads for Augusta National with a spring in his step after closing with a bogey-free six-under 66 to finish third in the Valero Texas Open.

Paul McGinley played just twice in the Masters but he knows how it feels to want something so badly, it becomes almost impossible to perform.

Rory McIlroy was pleased to step off the rollercoaster that's left him feeling queasy as the Masters looms and shoot his first bogey-free round for a month in the Valero Texas Open last night.

Shane Lowry believes he's hitting form in the nick of time as the Masters approaches after he fired a six-under 66 to break his Bay Hill hoodoo and lead the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Orlando.

Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry took advantage of benign conditions to open with four-under 67s and move straight into contention in the Cognizant Classic at the Palm Beaches.

Rory McIlroy responded with a facetious, “Who knows?” when asked about his former agent’s claim that there was a “10 pc” chance he’d sign for LIV Golf.

LIV Golf's Talor Gooch will likely be left waiting in vain for a Masters invitation after declaring that Rory McIlroy's name would need an asterisk beside it if he completes the career grand slam by donning the green jacket at Augusta National in April.

Rory McIlroy’s victory in darkness at the 2014 PGA Championship in Valhalla Golf Club, resisting the rallies of local favourites Phil Mickelson and Rickie Fowler in a rain-delayed final round, was the Northern Irishman’s most recent in a major. However, it was not the last time nor the first time someone from the Old Country left an imprint in Valhalla and Kentucky.