Rory McIlroy: I've got time and there will be plenty of major opportunities

Rory McIlroy on the 12th tee during a practice round prior to Thursday's PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park. Picture: Sean M. Haffey, Getty Images

Rory McIlroy will tee it up at Harding Park Thursday for the first major championship of the year confident there will be opportunities for him to break his six-year title drought.

The world number three has returned to the San Francisco municipal course where he won the WGC-Cadillac Match Play Championship in 2015 to try and land a third PGA Championship.