Sunday was a gut-wrenching day on the course for Rory McIlroy, but all seems to be well in his personal life after reconciling with wife Erica Stoll.
McIlroy, who brutally missed two short putts to blow the 2024 U.S. Open to Bryson DeChambeau, was spotted with Stoll and their 3-year-old daughter, Poppy, on Monday for the first time since their divorce saga, which ended with McIlroy dismissing his divorce filing in Palm Beach, Fla., last week.
Photos obtained by The Post show the couple with their daughter to the Loggerhead Marinelife Center in Juno Beach, Fla., with Stoll wearing her massive engagement ring.
She ditched the gigantic rock in May but appeared to keep her wedding band on in the wake of the split.
McIlroy, 35, filed for divorce from Stoll after seven years of marriage on May 13, a day after winning the Wells Fargo Championship and three days before the PGA Championship, the second major of the year.
The divorce filing described their marriage as “irretrievably broken.”
But McIlroy revealed last Tuesday, two days before the start of the U.S. Open, that the couple are sticking together.
“Over the past weeks, Erica and I have realized that our best future was as a family together,” McIlroy told The Guardian.
“Thankfully, we have resolved our differences and look forward to a new beginning.”
According to the Belfast Telegraph, McIlroy and Stoll met at their Jupiter, Fla. mansion each of the past four weeks to discuss a parenting plan for Poppy, and ended up reconciling based on “a huge level of trust.”
Though McIlroy’s divorce filing was “a long time coming,” the report said Stoll’s “measured response” to the stunning news helped lead to the couple to remaining married.
McIlroy bolted from Pinehurst on Sunday minutes after DeChambeau drained the winning putt, with video showing the Northern Irishman getting into his car and leaving the course.
He immediately flew back to Florida to return to his and his wife’s home, according to The Mirror.
Between the divorce filing and the couple’s reconciliation, the Daily Mail wrote that rumors of a McIlroy romance with CBS golf reporter Amanda Balionis were “the talk of the links,” but Us Weekly later reported the two only have a “professional relationship.”
“There have been rumors about my personal life recently, which is unfortunate. Responding to each rumor is a fool’s game,” McIlroy told The Guardian last Tuesday.
McIlroy has four career majors but hasn’t won one since the 2014 PGA Championship.
Sunday marked the second straight year McIlroy finished second in the U.S. Open, and he’s finished in the top 10 in each of his last six U.S. Open appearances.
His lone U.S. Open victory came in 2011 at Congressional.
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