Rory McIlroy said that he was content with his fifth place finish at the Wells Fargo Championship and the four-time major winner is building nicely towards this month's PGA Championship.
The Holywood native finished four shots off winner Max Homa, having recovered from a difficult 73 on Friday to post consecutive rounds of 68 over the weekend.
McIlroy finished on four-under par, four shots behind the winner. Birdies on five, eight, ten and 14 had the County Down man well placed, within two shots of the lead at one stage, but bogeys at 11 and the last marred an otherwise steady round.
And McIlroy is now looking ahead to the second major of the year, the PGA Championship at Southern Hills in Tulsa on 19 May, hoping to go one better than his second place finish at the Masters in April.
"Some of those pin positions on the back nine were tricky and tough to get close to," said McIlroy, speaking after Sunday's final round in Maryland.
"Yeah, I mean, overall it's been a good weekend, a decent week, something to build on going into the PGA (Championship)."
Homa claimed his second PGA Tour title of the season as he finished two shots clear of the field.
Homa, 31, began the final round in second place but overhauled a two-shot deficit with a two-under 68 as overnight leader Keegan Bradley finished the round on two-over.
Matt Fitzpatrick's three-under final-round 67 at the TPC Potomac in Maryland was not enough to catch Homa, but he finished tied for second alongside Bradley and Cameron Young, who fired a 66.
Homa made birdies at the first and fifth holes and although he bogeyed the seventh, back-to-back birdies at the ninth and 10th put him into the lead.
Another birdie at the 15th was sandwiched by two more bogeys at the 13th and 16th, but he held on to clinch his fourth career PGA Tour title and first since the Fortinet Championship at Napa last September.
Bradley's final round included two double bogeys, at the second and 11th holes, three bogeys and five birdies.
Fitzpatrick made birdies at the fifth, 12th and 18th in a bogey-free round.
