Rory McIlroy admits he has three more goals he wants to achieve in his golf career. And it's no surprise that winning the Masters is one of them.

The Holywood golfer's last major came back in 2014. He came agonisingly close to ending that drought at last year's US Open but suffered a late collapse at Pinehurst to gift the title to Bryson DeChambeau.

McIlroy has already won the US Open, the Open Championship and two PGA Championships, and the only major missing is the Masters.

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"Winning the Masters, winning an Olympic medal and another away Ryder Cup, they are my three goals for the rest of my career," McIlroy told BBC Sport. “I've realised that all I can control is myself.

"What's right for me right now is to fully focus on myself and to get the best out of myself and get back to winning the biggest tournaments in the world. I've been agonisingly close for the past few years, without being able to get it done and that that is the main focus of this year.

"All of my practice, all of my prep, even the tournaments that I'm playing, it's all geared towards being ready for those four events. Augusta is Augusta.

"I've gone through my stats and there are a couple of things that were pointed out to me that I could definitely get better at - certain little shots around the greens."

Also high on McIlroy's targets is winning another Ryder Cup, especially away from home. He will get that chance this year when the competition heads to Bethpage.

McIlroy says winning on the road would rank as one of golf's "greatest achievements".

The 35-year-old - who begins his new PGA Tour season this week at Pebble Beach - said: “You have heard me say this so many times, but one of the greatest achievements in the game right now is to win an away Ryder Cup and we have an opportunity to do that this year.

"It's a very strong American team, a very partisan crowd.

"But we've got a wonderful captain [Luke Donald] and we're going to have a wonderful team and we're relishing the challenge."

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