CARMEL, Ind. -- Rory McIlroy faced the strongest collection of contenders at any golf tournament this year Sunday at the BMW Championship. It was no contest. Even more disconcerting for everyone else, Boy Wonder was expecting to win all along. McIlroy fine-tuned his swing and missed only one fairway at soggy Crooked Stick, powering his way to a 5-under 67 to win his second straight FedEx Cup playoff event. They followed a record win at the PGA Championship, giving him three wins in his last four starts to establish himself as the dominant player in golf. He became the first player since Tiger Woods in 2009 to win in consecutive weeks on the PGA Tour, and with his sixth career tour win, he joined Woods and Jack Nicklaus as the only players to win that many at age 23. "The more you put yourself in this position, and the more you win and the more you pick up trophies, it becomes normal," McIlroy said after his two-shot win over Phil Mickelson and Lee Westwood. "And it feels like this is what youre supposed to do." For the longest time, this was what Woods used to do. "I dont think Im quite there yet," McIlroy said. "But Im getting to that stage where Im thinking, This is what I should be doing. I should be lifting a trophy at the end of the week. Its been great. The last four, five weeks have been incredible, some of the best golf that Ive ever played. Im going to try and keep the run going for as long as possible." Never mind that Phil Mickelson and Vijay Singh -- Hall of Famers with 74 tour wins and seven majors between them -- were one shot ahead. Or that Lee Westwood, a former world No. 1, was playing alongside. Or that Woods was right behind. McIlroy made back-to-back birdies around the turn to emerge from a four-way tie, and he turned back one last challenge from Westwood and Mickelson with clutch pars. The 23-year-old from Northern Ireland didnt make a bogey until the 18th hole. "By that time, I had sort of done enough," he said. Mickelson and Westwood tried to chase him down on the back nine at Crooked Stick, only to mistakes when they couldnt afford any. Westwood, who lost to McIlroy in the semifinals of the Match Play Championship in February, caught him with a birdie on the par-3 13th. But the weak area of his game showed up at the wrong time -- a poor chip on the 14th for bogey, another pedestrian chip on the par-5 15th that led to par. He wound up with a 69. "I played with him when he was 13, and you could see it then," Westwood said. "Hes just maturing all the time, as he will do. And hes a very, very good player. Mickelson, tied for the lead going into the final round, was one shot behind when his approach flew the green on No. 12 and he had to scramble for bogey. Mickelson made back-to-back birdies late in the round to get within two shots of the lead, but he badly missed a 3-foot par putt on the 17th to fall three shots behind. He closed with a 70. "A lot of people stayed neutral and Rory geared ahead," Mickelson said. Graham DeLaet of Weyburn, Sask., shot a final-round 75 to finish 15 strokes back in a four-way tie for 37th. Woods was never seriously in the mix. Five shots behind with seven holes to play, he made three late birdies and shot 68 to tie for fourth with Robert Garrigus (69). McIlroys work is not done. He is the No. 1 seed going into the FedEx Cup finale in two weeks at East Lake, but any of the top five seeds can win the Tour Championship and capture the FedEx Cup with its $10 million bonus. The other four seeds are Woods, Nick Watney, Mickelson and Brandt Snedeker. "Rory is putting on a show out there," Woods said. "And weve got one more tournament." Any of the top 30 players who advanced to the Tour Championship have a mathematical shot at winning the $10 million prize. One guy who wont have that opportunity is Vijay Singh, who started the final round tied for the lead with Mickelson. The 49-year-old Fijian fell apart on the back nine with three bogeys in a four-hole stretch to fall out of the top 30. A birdie on the final hole gave Singh a 73, but by then it was too late. McIlroy finished on 20-under 268 and earned $1.44 million, pushing him to over $7.8 million for the season to effectively lock up the money title and all but assured being voted by his peers as the PGA Tour player of the year. He has four wins on tour this year -- one more than Woods -- and that includes a record eight-shot win at the PGA Championship. This doesnt rate as highly as winning a major at Kiawah Island, though the All-Star cast that he beat made it satisfying -- Mickelson, Singh, Westwood, Woods, Dustin Johnson and Adam Scott all were within range of the lead going into the final day. McIlroy not only beat them all, he managed to take the drama out of the final hour with a towering 4-iron from 226 yards that landed softly and set up a two-putt birdie from 15 feet on the 15th. He followed that with another birdie putt from just inside 15 feet on the next hole to build a three-shot lead. "Hes going out there and is up near the lead and posts a good number," Woods said. "Hes doing the things he needs to do, and as he said yesterday, hes feeling very confident about his game. Right now hes just really played well, and hes making a ton of putts. Thats a great combo." The 70-man field was whittled to 30 for the Tour Championship. Singhs late collapse enabled Scott Piercy to grab the final spot, despite a double bogey on the 14th hole and a bogey on the 18th for a 68. A day earlier, Piercy had a two-shot penalty for removing an out-of-bounds stake on the 14th hole. But hes in the Tour Championship, which puts him in all the majors next year. Bill Haas suffered another Sunday meltdown at the BMW Championship, and this time it cost him. He was No. 28 in the FedEx Cup and started the final day in reasonable shape. He made seven bogeys and a double bogey and closed with a 78, falling out of the top 30 to miss the Tour Championship. A year ago, Haas closed with a 78 at Cog Hill to lose an automatic spot on the Presidents Cup team. But he made it to East Lake, won the Tour Championship to capture the FedEx Cup and the $10 million bonus, and was picked for the Presidents Cup team, anyway. There is no second chance this time, adding to the biggest oddity of this series. For the sixth straight year, the reigning FedEx Cup champion will not be at the Tour Championship. "When nerves are an issue and under the gun, Ive got to be better," Haas said. "And right now, Im far from competitive." Haas wasnt alone in his heartache. Kyle Stanley was at No. 30. He had a triple bogey on the par-3 sixth, a bogey on the par-5 11th and closed with a 74 to miss out on East Lake by one shot. Mickelson set the tone for this wild day when he pushed his opening drive so badly that he started to hit a provisional ball when he realized it clattered off the trees and back into the fairway, just 200 yards off the tee, though he safely managed a par. Then, he holed out from just over 40 feet off the green at No. 2 to take the lead, and kept a slim margin with a nifty up-and-down at the par-5 fifth. But when he missed the green from the fairway on No. 7 and made bogey, the final round was wide open. Ahead of him, Johnson chipped in for eagle on the par-5 ninth to create a four-way tie for the lead with Mickelson, McIlroy and Westwood. Westwood made birdie from the bunker on the ninth, while McIlroy hit a sky-high 4-iron that landed softly and set up a two-putt birdie that put them ahead at 18 under. Mickelson, playing in the final group, ran a chip out of muddied grass to 12 feet and made birdie to join them. 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Joel Hanrahan made it about as dramatic as it can get. Hanrahan allowed two runs in the ninth, then struck out Dave Sappelt with the bases loaded to preserve a 7-6 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday.LONDON -- Inter Milan and Lyon were among the six teams to qualify for the Europa Leagues knockout stage on Thursday but defending champion Atletico Madrid was made to wait after its 16-match winning run in European competition was ended. Liverpools qualification hopes took a dive by losing 1-0 at wealthy Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in Group A while Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani produced the best individual performance of the round, scoring all four of Napolis goals in a 4-2 win over Dnipro to revive the Italian teams challenge in Group F. Inter joined Rubin Kazan in progressing from Group H with two games to spare by easing past Partizan Belgrade 3-1 and Lyon ensured a top-two finish in Group I by winning 3-2 at last seasons beaten finalist Athletic Bilbao, which slumped to a third defeat in four matches. Bayer Leverkusen, Metalist Kharkiv and Hannover were the other sides to go through courtesy of victories but Atletico surprisingly lost 2-0 at Academica in Group B, for the Portuguese teams first win in Europe in 43 years. England striker Jermain Defoe grabbed a clinical hat trick in Tottenhams 3-1 win at home to Maribor that leaves the English side second in Group J, behind Lazio after its 3-0 victory over Panathinaikos. Five teams -- Rosenborg, Rapid Vienna, Neftchi, Partizan Belgrade and Hapoel Tel-Aviv -- were eliminated in the 48-club group stage, which resumes in two weeks time. The top two teams in each group go through, where they will be joined by the eight third-place finishers in the Champions League groups. Inter travelled to Partizan buoyed by a 3-1 win at Juventus, which ended the Serie A leaders 49-match unbeaten run in the league, and picked up where it left off. Rodrigo Palacio scored twice and Fredy Guarin added Inters third in Belgrade. Rubin beat Neftchi 1-0 to also move to 10 points and will host Inter next, a match that should determine who finishes top of the group. Lyon is the only team to have won all four of its group games after goals by Bafetimbi Gomis, Yoann Gourcuff and Alexandre Lacazette against Bilbao, which is a shadow of the side that flamboyantly swept to the final in May -- only to lose to Spanish rival Atletico. The Basques are bottom on one point and now have to win both remaining games to have a chance of qualifying. Leverkusen and Metalist advanced from Group K after moving to 10 points with wins over Rapid Vienna (3-0) and Rosenborg (3-1), respectively. Group L leader Hannover cant be denied a top-two place either, following a 90th-minute winner from the penalty spot by Szabolccs Huszti in a 3-2 victory over Helsingborg, which had two players dismissed in the final two minutes.dddddddddddd Lacina Traore grabbed a 45th-minute winner for Anzhi to give Dutch coach Guus Hiddink the perfect present on his 66th birthday in Moscow against Liverpool. The English visitors, who again played a largely reserve team, held their own throughout but was undone by a great piece of skill by the lanky Ivorian striker, who lifted the ball over his marker before lobbing goalkeeper Brad Jones from outside the area. "Some of the young players were terrific and we are disappointed not to have got something from it," said Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who left Luis Suarez and Steven Gerrard out of the squad ahead of Sundays match at Chelsea in the Premier League. Anzhi climbed above Liverpool to the top of the group and with Young Boys surprise 3-2 victory over Udinese, all four teams can still reach the knockout stage. Liverpool and Anzhi can both qualify from what is proving to be the toughest of all 12 groups by beating Young Boys and Udinese, respectively, next time out. Atletico should also go through in the next matchday as it hosts Hapoel but was sunk on Thursday by a brace from Wilson Eduardo, earning Academica a first European victory since 1969. The holders, who were without their star striker Radamel Falcao, are level on points with Viktoria Plzen -- a 4-0 winner over eliminated Hapoel Tel Aviv. Newcastle stayed top of Group D by drawing 2-2 at Club Brugge while Fenerbahce and Steaua Bucharest are both five points clear in their groups after a third win in four games but still arent guaranteed to advance. Fenerbahce beat AEL Limassol 2-0 in Group C, where Marseille drew 2-2 with Borussia Moenchengladbach to leave both teams on five points, and Steaua is in charge of Group E after defeating Molde 2-1 away. Defoe was in irresistible mood against Maribor, providing three deadly finishes -- two coming from assists from flying winger Gareth Bale -- at White Hart Lane. At halftime, a tearful Fabrice Muamba was given a standing ovation from the crowd after returning to the exact spot on the field where he collapsed because of cardiac arrest during an FA Cup match in March. The Bolton midfielders heart stopped beating on its own for 78 minutes during the incident and he has since retired from football on medical advice. "I want to thank all of you Spurs fans who were here and who prayed for me," Muamba told the crowd. "You were all fantastic and I will never forget." ' ' '