Confident Rory McIlroy targets two more majors this year

London: Rory McIlroy is confident he can add two majors to his trophy haul this year after a successful 12 months in which he has proved himself to be the world`s best player. 

At Wentworth this week to defend his PGA Championship title, McIlroy on Tuesday picked up the European Tour Golfer of the Year and Players` Player of the Year awards.

The world number one, who has won four majors so far in his career, clinched his third tournament of 2015 on Sunday with a seven-shot win at the Wells Fargo Classic.

The 26-year-old, who claimed the WGC Match Play title two weeks ago, has been in superb form and now has six top-10 finishes in his last eight PGA Tour starts.

"There are three majors left and I feel two of those venues could suit me -- St Andrews (The Open) and Whistling Straits (US PGA Championship)," he told Sky Sports.

"Chambers Bay at the U.S. Open is a bit of an unknown quantity. But there are two great opportunities for major titles and a lot of other opportunities for wins."

"I`d also like to increase my lead in the world ranking," said McIlroy, who already has a lead of almost 200 points over Jordan Speith followed by Sweden`s Henrik Stenson and Speith`s fellow Americans Bubba Watson and Jim Furyk.

"I feel like I`m in a generation with a lot of young guys that are coming up and I want to be the best of this generation," McIlroy said in a BBC interview on Tuesday.

"I want to win a lot more tournaments, I can win a lot more majors. I haven`t put a number on it because I don`t want to put that burden on myself. I just want to be better than everyone else.

"I`ve put in a lot of hard work over the past 12 months, just working that little bit harder, just those tiny little differences that separate a top-five finish from a win."

McIlroy has a long way to go to catch Tiger Woods, who has won 14 major titles, but he has closely studied the former world number one.

"The one thing I`ve learned from Tiger, from getting to know him, is how hard he works -- the ones who work the hardest do the best," said McIlroy.

"I`ll never be able to do for golf what Tiger did. He was a phenomenon, he brought so many more people into the game because of his background and how he started on tour."