Four-time major champion McIlory filed for divorce the day after winning the Wells Fargo Championship and on the eve of the PGA Championship.
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It’s been a fantastic week for Rory McIlory on the golf course, with the Northern Irishman winning the Wells Fargo Championship at Quail Hollow in Charlotte for the fourth time in his career on Sunday. However, it has now been revealed the four-time major winner filed for divorce from wife Erica Stoll in Florida on Monday, less than 24 hours after his PGA Tour win, and just three days before he takes part in the 2024 PGA Championship.
How and where did McIlory and Stoll meet?
McIlory and Stoll met when she was working at the 2012 Ryder Cup, an event at which she was working at as a PGA transport official. The story goes that Stoll helped McIlory get a police escort after his alarm failed to go off and he almost missed his tee time.
At the time, the golfer was dating Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, who he became engaged to but later separated from a few months later.
🚨#BREAKING: Rory McIlroy and wife Erica Stoll have filed for divorce, TMZ is reporting. Court documents have been filed in the state of Florida. @TrackingRory pic.twitter.com/ylfAAv2Y9Q
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McIlroy and Stoll’s relationship
After more than two years of friendship, romance blossomed between McIlory and Stoll, who got engaged in December 2015 in Paris, marrying 16 months later at Ashford Castle in Ireland in April 2017.
The couple have one daughter together, Poppy Kennedy McIlory, who was born in September 2020.
