Following the Zurich Classic two-man event in New Orleans, McIlroy will only have a three-week wait before the season’s second major, the US PGA Championship, which will take place at a Quail Hollow venue where he has already triumphed on four occasions.

And after ending his 11-year major drought amid an extraordinary finale in Georgia, McIlroy will surely be the favourite to quickly add another one in North Carolina.

McIlroy earned his first PGA Tour victory in 2010 when a stunning 10-under-par 62 earned him a four-shot triumph at the Wells Fargo Championship after he had squeezed into the weekend action on the cut mark.

The Northern Ireland man went on to achieve a seven-shot victory at the North Carolina course in 2015 and after winning again at Quail Hollow in 2021, ran away with last year’s Wells Fargo Championship as he had five strokes to spare over Schauffele.

Suffice to say, he rather likes the venue and while the course set-up for a major is likely to be tougher, no-one will surely go into the US PGA with more confidence than the now five-time major champion.