Lowry and McIlroy fine-tuning their game ahead of Ryder Cup

Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy are both looking for a big final round at the BMW PGA Championship, as thoughts begin to turn to next week's Ryder Cup.

The Irish duo will both be part of Luke Donald’s European team in Rome and are looking to wrap things up in style in the final round at Wentworth on Sunday.

McIlory, who scrapped under the cut line on Friday after two indifferent opening rounds, appeared to hit his stride on Saturday with a round of 67 that saw him move up the leaderboard.

Seven birdies and two bogeys – both coming on par fives – saw McIlroy finish the day on -six under and while he remains ten shots behind leader Lugvig Aberg of Sweden, he’s still targeting a big final round and is looking to further boost his confidence ahead of next week.

"It felt good." McIlroy told RTÉ Sport. "I mean I played well, give myself a lot of chances obviously got off to a great start and hit a couple of bad bogeys. But you know that's golf and I'm pretty happy, like anytime shoot five under around here is pretty good. I mean, it's obviously playing pretty easy today, but it’s never that easy.

"I'm in a sort of half decent position in tomorrow. Obviously I'd like to be closer to leaders but if I can go and shoot low tomorrow, you just never know.

"It's hard to win these tournaments and it's hard to finish down the stretch like this. So who knows what the winning score will be? I just have to keep doing my own thing and plugging away.

"Regardless of what happens tomorrow, I feel like I'm going into the Ryder Cup with quite a bit of confidence in my game. It's always a great place to be because if you're not too confident your game you can get found out. So you know I'm not going to be like that. I'm pretty happy and I'm very excited."