This is where it all started to go right for Rory McIlroy, the disappointments of spring and early summer morphed into the mother of all season finales. A top-five at the Bridgestone was followed a week later by victory at the USPGA to claim his second major. He could barely miss from there on in, winning twice in the FedEx play-offs and signing off the Race to Dubai in a blaze of birdies to top the money list on both sides of the Atlantic.