Former champion Rory McIlroy hopes a second victory in the BMW PGA Championship can spark a repeat of the best season of his career.

With Tiger Woods, who set the bar for modern dominance, back in the game, Kevin Markham looks at golf’s greatest winning runs.

Jason Day threw away his chance of a second US PGA title with "one crazy decision" according to six-time major winner Nick Faldo.

Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy carded contrasting opening rounds of 72 as Spieth aims to become the youngest player to complete a career grand slam in the 99th US PGA Championship.

Shane Lowry plans to move his family to the US next year as he attempts to halt his worrying slide down the world rankings after two frustrating years on the PGA Tour.

There’s only one thing that Jordan Spieth fears more that Quail Hollow’s cloying bermuda rough and rock hard greens and that’s Rory McIlroy in full flow.

Jordan Spieth might have the resilience of rubber ball and a talent for escape that would make even Harry Houdini blush.

Rory McIlroy admits a fifth major title is long overdue as he seeks a third US PGA victory with the added incentive of preventing Jordan Spieth from beating him to a career grand slam.

Jimmy Walker fired a second round 65 to move to the top of the leaderboard in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational in Akron.

Rory McIlroy shrugged off a closing three-putt bogey and declared his opening 67 in the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational with new bagman Harry Diamond as the start of a new chapter in his career.

Jordan Spieth and Matt Kuchar were still duking it out at Royal Birkdale yesterday evening as Rory McIlroy’s attention turned towards the PGA Championship and a final shot in 2017 of breaking a three-year major drought.

The Open Championship has not been a happy hunting ground for Shane Lowry over the past two seasons but Pádraig Harrington believes the 30-year-old has the credentials to become Ireland’s fifth recipient of the Auld Claret Jug.

A relaxed Pádraig Harrington does not believe a fourth major title would alter his golfing legacy, but concedes a third British Open victory next week might lead to a hasty change of heart.

Rory McIlroy admits he sounds like a broken record as he insists he is close to finding the form to “salvage” his injury-hit season.

Pádraig Harrington is ready to play golf’s elder statesman role with off-form Shane Lowry when the Irish pair reunite after the PGA Championship for a practice round at the Travelers Championship in Connecticut.

Shane Lowry returns to the major championship arena today armed with confidence rather than burdened by disappointment following last month’s US Open near-miss.

A lot has happened to Shane Lowry since he won his national title as an amateur in 2009, yet adding an Irish Open victory as a professional is very much a serious goal for the world number 35.

Shane Lowry is determined to defend his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title and get his Ryder Cup campaign up and running with a badly-needed win over the next four weeks.

The sight of European big guns limping over the finish line early on Sunday at the Masters need not necessarily give Ryder Cup team captain Darren Clarke cause for panic five months out from the 41st match-up at Hazeltine.

Shane Lowry left Augusta National with a wide smile on his face and a piece of crystal that was his reward for a hard and sometimes difficult week’s work at the Masters.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy can achieve a career milestone and set himself up perfectly for a much more important one in the WGC-Dell Match Play this week.

Making the extraordinary feel routine is a trick only the greats can master, and while Rory McIlroy is favourite to win his third Race to Dubai crown in four years, Shane Lowry has a fast-track to the Ryder Cup in mind at this week’s Turkish Airlines Open.

Shane Lowry has reset his goals and regained his hunger for the game as he looks to build on the biggest win of his career.

Mention has been made in these parts of Martin Kaymer’s irritation at his PGA Championship victory at Whistling Straits back in 2010 being framed as the major Dustin Johnson threw away, yet imagine how annoyed you’d be if you were Johnson?

Fit-again Rory McIlroy will not add tournaments to his 2015 schedule in order to make up lost time for his injury-enforced absence this summer.

Rory McIlroy returns to the fray at the PGA Championship today, one ligament lighter than in his last competitive appearance and with a lot more to lose if Jordan Spieth continues his dominance of the 2015 majors.

Europe’s Ryder Cup captain Darren Clarke believes Shane Lowry has a tough decision to make over his WGC-Bridgestone Invitational title defence in 2016 but is in no doubt the European Tour made the right decision not to sanction next year’s prestigious tournament.

Pádraig Harrington returns to the majors this week at Whistling Straits for the first time since last month’s Open near miss, fighting both the pain of a knee injury and the sense the clock is ticking on his ability to add to his title haul.

Bubba Watson is among the pre-tournament favourites for this week’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, where he has bittersweet memories of his performance at the links-style venue five years ago.

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Rory McIlroy could have taken a longer, safer route to the 18th green at Whistling Straits. Instead he bounded down a steep hill like a mountain goat who’d just spotted a particularly juicy clump of grass.

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First it was Rory McIlroy injured playing football and now fellow PGA Championship winner Pádraig Harrington fears injuring his knee playing tennis could see him miss next week’s championship at Whistling Straits.

Shane Lowry will use this fortnight of competition in the States to finally establish himself well inside the top-50 on the world rankings.

“When it’s breezy, swing it easy” is a well-known golfing adage and it proved to be just the advice Alan Lowry needed to follow in the footsteps of his famous big brother and win the Mullingar Electrical Scratch Trophy.