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 Rory McIlroy has filed for divorce from wife, Erica Stoll, according to a report. 

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, according to TMZ. 

The filing in Florida, where McIlroy and Erica, 35, live, comes seven years after the couple, who share a three-year-old daughter Poppy who was born in 2020, tied the knot in 2017. 

Reasons for their split were not made readily available. 

The Northern Irishman first met Erica, who hails from New York State, during the 2012 Ryder Cup, which she was working for the PGA. 

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.  

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.

They are believed to live in the golfing capital, Jupiter, Florida, in a 12,800-square-foot, $9.6million mansion, according to The Sun. 

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 has also been 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. 

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 report of the split comes amid a tumultuous time for McIlroy after his attempt to return to the PGA Tour Policy Board was vetoed. 

He was expected to replace Webb Simpson but the five remaining player directors - which comprises of Woods, Patrick Cantlay, Peter Malnati, Adam Scott and Jordan Spieth - voted against he move, according to The Telegraph. 

The outlet claims that 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. The other two members who voted against McIlroy's re-inclusion are not yet known.

However, McIlroy played down any reports of a strain on his relationship with the golf icon, with whom he is spearheading the TGL venture, 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.' 

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