LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce after seven years of marriage, in response to courtroom data in Palm Seaside County, Florida, a surprising improvement going into the PGA Championship.
McIlroy and his spouse, Erica Stoll, had a storybook assembly in the course of the Ryder Cup in 2012, started relationship two years later and have been married in 2017. They’ve one daughter, Poppy, born in September 2020.
TMZ first reported on the submitting, which was made Monday.
The petition for divorce described the wedding as irretrievably damaged and requested {that a} prenuptial settlement signed a few month earlier than their April 21, 2017, wedding ceremony be validated and enforced. The prenuptial settlement was sealed.
McIlroy’s lawyer was listed as Thomas Sasser, the identical lawyer who represented Tiger Woods when his spouse divorced him in 2010.
“Rory McIlroy’s communications group confirmed right now {that a} divorce has been filed. They burdened Rory’s need to make sure this troublesome time is as respectful and amicable as attainable,” mentioned an announcement from his supervisor, Sean O’Flaherty.
He mentioned there can be no additional remark.
McIlroy arrived at Valhalla on Tuesday. He has gone 10 years since profitable a significant, the final one at Valhalla in 2014 for the PGA Championship. His pre-tournament information convention was scheduled for Wednesday.
McIlroy and Stoll met below uncommon circumstances. She labored for the PGA of America in 2012 in the course of the Ryder Cup at Medinah within the Chicago suburbs, the place McIlroy almost missed his Sunday singles match as a result of he mentioned he forgot he was within the Central time zone.
Stoll organized for a police escort to Medinah, and McIlroy barely arrived in time. He received his match over Keegan Bradley as Europe rallied to win.
McIlroy was relationship tennis star Caroline Wozniacki on the time. They have been engaged simply over a yr later, however then McIlroy abruptly broke it off over the telephone.
He and Stoll started relationship later that yr. They have been engaged in 2015.
McIlroy filed for the divorce a day after he received the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, North Carolina, his second straight PGA Tour win and the twenty sixth of his profession. Requested if he deliberate to go straight to Valhalla on Sunday evening, McIlroy mentioned, “I’ll most likely go dwelling and simply kind of reset, then head as much as Louisville tomorrow evening or Tuesday morning.”
The divorce submitting comes amid chaos in golf created by the launch of Saudi-funded LIV Golf. McIlroy has been a central determine over the past two years, harshly criticizing LIV after which altering his views and pushing for some type of reunification.
He resigned from the PGA Tour board final November, then was concerned in a plan to rejoin the board by changing Webb Simpson. That transfer was met by resistance from different participant administrators. As a substitute, McIlroy was appointed to a committee that’s negotiating with the Public Funding Fund of Saudi Arabia over doubtlessly changing into a minority investor.
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Related Press Author Terry Spencer in Palm Seaside, Florida, contributed to this report.
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