Your daily adult tube feed all in one place!
Rory McIlroy files for DIVORCE from wife Erica Stoll after seven years of marriage - just three days before the 2024 PGA Championship
PGA Tour star and four-time majors winner Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce from wife, Erica Stoll.
The 35-year-old is said to have filed the documents on Monday just three days before the start of the PGA Championship, the second major of the year, and fresh off his latest victory at the Wells Fargo Championship last weekend.
McIlroy's communications team confirmed on Tuesday that a divorce has been filed. They stressed Rory's desire to ensure this difficult time is as respectful and amicable as possible.
Court documents filed in Palm Beach County obtained by DailyMail.com stated their marriage was 'irretrievably broken'.
The couple, who share a three-year-old daughter Poppy Kennedy born in 2020, tied the knot in 2017 after a storybook meeting at the 2012 Ryder Cup.
The Northern Irishman, whose career earnings total nearly $87million, first met Erica, 35, who hails from New York State, during the 2012 tournament held in Illinois, at which she was working for the PGA.
PGA Tour star Rory McIlroy has reportedly filed for divorce from wife, Erica Stoll
The Northern Irishman first met Erica during the 2012 Ryder Cup, which she was working at (pictured at the opening of the 2023 Ryder Cup)
The Northern Irishman and Stoll tied the knot in 2017 (pictured at the 2023 Ryder Cup)
He has previously credited the American with helping him make his tee time at Medinah - thanks to a police escort - after he missed his alarm. He went on to win his match over Keegan Bradley.
Despite initially meeting at the Ryder Cup that year, it wasn't until a few years later that the pair would enter a relationship.
A few months after calling off his engagement with tennis star Caroline Wozniacki in 2014, McIlroy and Stoll got together before getting engaged a year later.
The four-time major champion and Stoll kept their relationship largely private before they married in a lavish ceremony in Ireland in 2017.
The couple exchanged their vows at Ashford Castle in County Mayo, Ireland, in front of celebrity guests, including One Direction star Niall Horan and Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, while music icons Ed Sheeran and Stevie Wonder performed at the event.
The petition for divorce states that the pair had signed a prenuptial agreement. However, the details of the arrangement have not been divulged.
McIlroy's attorney was listed as Thomas Sasser, the same attorney who represented Tiger Woods when his wife divorced him in 2010.
The filing also calls for shared custody and a parenting plan to be established for Poppy.
McIlroy is due to speak to the media on Wednesday afternoon at Valhalla; his team has issued a statement on his behalf today.
McIlroy and Stoll got together after his split from Caroline Wozniacki in 2014
The couple share a three-year-old daughter Poppy, who was born in 2020 (Erica and Poppy pictured in 2021)
They are believed to have lived in a 12,800-square-foot, $9.5million mansion in Florida
McIlroy bought the six-bedroom mansion in the golfing capital of Jupiter for $9.5m in 2013
Erica was on McIlroy's bag for the Masters Par-3 event with their daughter Poppy in 2023
The petition for divorce states that the pair had signed a prenuptial agreement. However, the details of the arrangement have not been divulged
Sean O'Flaherty, McIlroy's manager, said in a statement: 'Rory McIlroy's communications team confirmed today that a divorce has been filed.
'They stressed Rory's desire to ensure this difficult time is as respectful and amicable as possible.'
He added there would be no further comment.
They are believed to have lived in a 12,800-square-foot, $9.5million mansion in the golfing capital of Jupiter, Florida - home to many professional tour golfers.
Erica has regularly been spotted supporting her PGA husband at his tournaments, including the 2023 Ryder Cup in Rome where she wowed in a stunning, strapless black gown on the Spanish Steps.
She was also on McIlroy's bag for the Masters Par-3 competition with their daughter Poppy in 2023. However, the McIlroy family were notably absent from the traditional, annual event.
Erica grew up in New York and graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2008 with a marketing degree. She went on to work for the Professional Golf Association of America.
She was seen at The Players in March when the PGA Tour shared a heartwarming clip of she and Poppy greeting McIlroy on the 18th green. The golfer was seen scooping his daughter into his arms for a hug with Erica telling him they had been watching his birdie-birdie finish.
McIlroy infamously split from tennis star Wozniacki in 2014 just months before they were due to wed.
The golfer is said to have dumped his then-fiancée in a three-minute phone call hours after telling her he loved her. Their split came in May 2014, before they were due to marry in November.
The 35-year-old has regularly been spotted supporting her PGA husband at his tournaments
Erica is pictured with Wendy Honner, the wife of Irish golfer Shane Lowry (second from left)
McIlroy's split from Wozniacki came days before the BMW PGA Championship in England, which he went on to win. At the same event the previous year, he tied for 96th place.
He also collected two major championships victories that year, The Open at Royal Liverpool in July and the PGA Championship in August at Valhalla - the same course as the same tournament this week.
The 2014 PGA Championship was McIlroy's last major win with the Northern Irishman suffering a decade-long drought and failing to seal the career Grand Slam.
It is an eerily similar patter for the golfer, who won his 26th tournament on the PGA Tour, with his fourth Wells Fargo Championship victory in another dominant performance at Quail Hollow last weekend.
McIlroy filed for the divorce a day after winning in Charlotte, North Carolina, his second straight PGA Tour win and the 26th of his career.
Asked if he planned to go straight to Valhalla on Sunday night, McIlroy said, 'I'll probably go home and just sort of reset, then head up to Louisville tomorrow night or Tuesday morning.'
Two weeks before, he scooped yet another trophy for his cabinet, winning the Zurich Classic alongside pal and Ryder Cup teammate, Irishman Shane Lowry, with the duo celebrating their triumph with an impromptu rendition of Journey's 'Don't Stop Believing'.
McIlroy split from tennis star Caroline Wozniacki in 2014 months before they were due to wed
The golfer is said to have dumped his then-fiancée (pictured) in a three-minute phone call
The report of his split with Stoll comes amid a tumultuous time for McIlroy after his attempt to return to the PGA Tour Policy Board was vetoed.
He had quit the board late last year citing personal and professional reasons, but had been expected to replace Webb Simpson upon his return.
But three of the five remaining player directors - which comprises of Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati, Adam Scott and Jordan Spieth - voted against the move.
Reports suggest Woods, a long-standing ally of McIlroy's, was one of those who voted against the four-time major winner's inclusion, with the votes being cast 3-2 for the 35-year-old to be excluded from the board.
Patrick Cantlay is said to be one of the other members who resisted McIlroy's return. The third dissenter is not yet known.
However, McIlroy played down any reports of a strain on his relationship with golf icon Woods, with whom he is spearheading new golfing venture TGL, last week.
'I think friends can have disagreements or not see eye to eye on things,' McIlroy said.
'We had a really good talk last Friday for 45 minutes, just about a lot of different things. No, there's no strain there.
'I think we might see the future of golf a little bit differently, but I don't think that should place any strain on a relationship or on a friendship.'
McIlroy was also an early critic of the Saudi-funded LIV Golf tournament, which has faced claims of sportswashing, but he has since softened his stance on the breakaway circuit.
Last month, he was appointed to the PGA Tour's policy board to continue potential merger talks with the Saudi-backed tour.