Rory McIlroy insists there are plenty of positives to take from the BMW PGA Championship into the Ryder Cup despite failing to make the most of his birdie scoring at Wentworth.

The world No 2 was one of 11 European Ryder Cup players in the field for the DP World Tour's flagship event, ahead of featuring for Team Europe from September 26-28 - live on Sky Sports - at Bethpage Black.

McIlroy registered 17 birdies over his first three rounds at Wentworth but left to rue 'too many sloppy things' for not getting into title contention for the second successive week, although has seen enough encouragement in his game heading into their title defence against the United States.

"There has been a lot of birdies and there has been quite a lot of good stuff, but just too many of those blue numbers

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