FLOURTOWN, Pa. - With all due respect to the Zurich Classic of New Orleans, the PGA Tour's lone team event, the Truist Championship was Rory McIlroy's first real test of golf since winning the Masters.

Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler are the two favorites heading into next week's PGA Championship, but the former does have one key advantage over the latter

The statistic we care most about in golf, as fans and writers and players and sponsors and any other role you can imagine, is wins. It's the broadest statistic of them all, and maybe not the best in determining history’s most talented golfers,