He may not have the tournament wins to show for it just yet, but there is no doubt that Rory McIlroy is steadily getting back to playing his best golf.
The 34-year old came agonisingly close to a first major title since 2014 last week, finishing one shot behind Wyndham Clark at the US Open. He would produce another impressive performance over the weekend, carding a -6 final round to finish in a tie for seventh at the Traveler's Championship.
McIlroy will no doubt be pleased with the way he performed in Connecticut, shooting -18 over the four rounds. That would be enough to win most tournaments, although it was only good enough to finish five shots behind winner Keegan Bradley on this occasion.
In fact, there were eight rounds of 62 or lower shot over the four days of play.
As technology continues to improve, that type of score is something we are only likely to see more of at the top level of golf. That trend is coming as a worry to some people.
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Rory McIlroy concerned about future of top level golf
Rory McIlroy is someone that has been careful to ensure the safeguarding the future of professional golf and he believes that scores like the ones we saw at the Traveler's Championship are not sustainable moving forward.
Speaking after Sunday's final round, he said that courses such as TPC River Highlands no longer represent a challenge for top level players due to advances in technology, something that is going to lead to some difficult conversations.
I don't particularly like when a tournament is like this. Unfortunately, technology has passed this course by, right? It sort of has made it obsolete, especially as soft as it has been with a little bit of rain that we had.
Again, like the conversations going back to, you know, limiting the golf ball and stuff like that, when we come to courses like this they just don't present the challenge that they used to.
You can grow the rough up and hope you get some firm conditions so it gets tricky. I think the blueprint for a really good golf course isn't growing the rough up and making the fairways tight. That bunches everyone together.
The blueprint is something like Los Angeles Country Club, where you have wide targets, but if you miss it's penal. This isn't that sort of golf course. It's not that sort of layout. It doesn't have the land to do that.
Unfortunately when you get soft conditions like this and you've got the best players in the world, this is what's going to happen.
There have been suggestions that the golf authorities could look to introduce some seismic rule changes in the near future in order to slow down the influence of technology in the sport. Ideas such as heavier golf balls or scaling back technology in clubs have been mooted in recent times.
It will be interesting to see how they tackle this issue over the coming years.
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