REVEALED: How Mother’s Day snub was just one of the signs that Rory McIlroy’s marriage was on the rocks before he and Erica Stoll filed for divorce
Following news that Rory McIlroy had filed for divorce from Erica Stoll, the golfer’s failure to mention his wife of seven years during a Mother’s Day tribute seemed to be a sign of their fallout.
The paperwork was filed Monday, as confirmed by McIlroy’s team ahead of the PGA Championship tournament in Louisville, Kentucky.
Before the submission, McIlroy won the Wells Fargo Championship in North Carolina. As the tournament wrapped up on American Mother’s Day, McIlroy praised his mother while leaving Stoll, the mother of his three-year-old daughter Poppy, out of the tribute.
“Yes, my mom is great,” McIlroy said. ‘I think most people know my father, but my mother Rosie is like the rock or gel that holds our family together. She always has been.’
“I’m probably a lot more like my dad, but sometimes I wish I was a little more like my mom,” he added. ‘So if you’re watching mom, happy Mother’s Day! I can’t wait to see you tomorrow.’
Rory McIlroy snubbed Erica Stoll during Mother’s Day tribute before filing for divorce
McIlroy and Stoll married in 2017 and welcomed their daughter Poppy Kennedy in 2020
The documents state that McIlroy and Stoll’s marriage was “irretrievably broken.”
Their divorce petition reportedly states that the couple had signed a prenuptial agreement. The documents also call for shared custody and the creation of a parenting plan for Poppy.
McIlroy and Stoll signed the prenuptial agreement a month before their lavish wedding at Ashford Castle in April 2017. Seven years later, they asked for the prenuptial agreement to be executed because the marriage had become ‘irretrievably broken’.
The Northern Irishman’s lawyer is listed as Thomas Sasser, who represented Tiger Woods when he filed for divorce from Elin Nordegren in 2010.
McIlroy met Stoll at the 2012 Ryder Cup while she was working as a transportation official for the PGA.
They maintained a platonic relationship while McIlroy dated tennis star Caroline Wozniacki. McIlroy and Wozniacki got engaged on New Year’s Eve in 2013, but split a few months later. In late 2014, Stoll and McIlroy started dating.
The couple got engaged in December 2015 and had Poppy in August 2020.
Amid the divorce news, McIlroy is in Valhalla preparing for the PGA Championship – a tournament he won in 2012 and 2014. McIlroy will tee off Thursday at 8:15 a.m. alongside Dustin Johnson and Justin Rose.