Rory McIlroy made an early move for a fifth success this season in the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai, while good friend Shane Lowry finally looks set to secure that much sought after top-50 World Ranking.

Graeme McDowell set about making the most of this week’s ‘no halfway cut’ WGC–Bridgestone Invitational format ahead of next week’s PGA Championship at Oak Hill.

Shane Lowry has vowed to now bring more aggression to his game after ending a run of recent outs to easily make the halfway cut in the Valero Texas Open.

Rory McIlroy sought to silence any critics ahead of next week’s Masters declaring he didn’t mind if he missed 10 successive cuts in a season as long as he kept winning tournaments.