ROARING BACK

RORY MCILROY may not win the US PGA Championship but he will claim another Major soon - according to his old Ryder Cup captain Paul McGinley.

- NEIL SQUIRES

The winds that came sweeping down the plain in Oklahoma yesterday as McIlroy prepared to set out on his second round rendered predictions for Southern Hills treacherous.

But regardless of the outcome in Tulsa, the relaxed intensity McGinley has seen in his former charge convinces him that Mcllroy's eight-year drought is about to end soon.

The stardust the Northern Irishman sprinkled in his opening 65, hot on the heels of the Sunday fireworks that brought him a runner-up finish at the Masters, took McGinley back to the McIlroy he skippered at Gleneagles against the USA in 2014, when he had the golf world at his feet.