Rory McIlroy and wife, Erica, share celebratory kiss at Players Championship as divorce drama seems in past

Rory McIlroy is riding precocious connected and disconnected the course. 

The PGA Tour prima won his 2nd vocation Players Championship connected Monday morning, edging retired J.J. Spaun successful a three-hole playoff aft being tied astatine 12-under pursuing a rain-soaked Sunday last round. 

If the $4.5 cardinal prize wasn’t capable to beryllium blessed about, McIlroy’s wife, Erica Stoll, and their 4-year-old daughter, Poppy, were spotted celebrating the Northern Irishman’s latest triumph connected the course. 

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Rory McIlroy kisses his girl Poppy connected the forehead arsenic his woman Erica Stoll, right, watches aft winning the Players Championship astatine TPC Sawgrass. (Doug Engle-USA TODAY Network via Imagn Images)

Last June, McIlroy and Stoll called disconnected their divorcement successful June 2024, which was initially filed successful May, making sweeping headlines up of the PGA Championship astatine Valhalla Golf Club successful Louisville, Kentucky. 

However, the mates look to beryllium going strong, arsenic they shared a celebratory buss astatine TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, pursuing the triumph for McIlroy. 

In November 2024, McIlroy was precise affectional aft winning the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai tourney for the 3rd consecutive year. Stoll and their girl were contiguous for that arsenic well, and it intelligibly deed him aft going done a tumultuous season, which included nonrecreational and idiosyncratic turbulence. 

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"I’ve been done a batch this twelvemonth – personally, professionally," helium said, via Sky Sports, aft his win. "It feels similar the fitting extremity to 2024. Look, I’ve persevered this twelvemonth a lot, had adjacent calls, wasn’t capable to get it done, truthful to beryllium capable to get implicit the enactment – I got disconnected to a large start, and past I didn’t person the champion astir the mediate of the round."

When asked astir his household being contiguous for the win, McIlroy responded, "Their enactment means the satellite to me."

Rory McIlroy poses with the winning trophy aft a three-hole aggregate playoff of The Players Championship PGA play tournment Monday, March 17, 2025 astatine TPC Sawgrass successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. Rory McIlroy won his 2nd Players Championship astatine +1 implicit J.J. Spaun. (Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union)

"To beryllium capable to amusement Poppy what happened contiguous and possibly immoderate of the reasons wherefore I’m not astir each of the clip due to the fact that I’m moving oregon practicing… it’s unthinkable that they were present with maine this week, and I’m excited to spell observe with them."

McIlroy told The Guardian successful June 2024 that the differences betwixt himself and Stoll were reconciled, saying, "Erica and I person realized that our champion aboriginal was arsenic a household together. Thankfully, we person resolved our differences and look guardant to a caller beginning."

When quality broke astir McIlroy filing for divorce, a study surfaced successful Us Weekly, which said Stoll was "lonely" successful their marriage, and the four-time large champion was "a hard idiosyncratic to beryllium joined to" due to the fact that of his playing career.

But the matrimony wasn’t wholly "irretrievably broken" similar the divorcement filing said past May, and McIlroy and Stoll celebrated erstwhile much with their girl aft a immense triumph connected the PGA Tour. 

McIlroy finished his 3 holes connected Monday greeting 1-over par, but it was capable to bushed Spaun, who was 3-over to decorativeness successful 2nd place. 

Rory McIlroy kisses his woman Erica Still portion holding his girl Poppy, 5. Rory McIlroy defeated J.J. Spaun successful a three-hole aggregate playoff of the Players Championship astatine TPC Sawgrass Monday March 17, 2025 successful Ponte Vedra Beach, Fl. McIlroy changeable a +1 portion Spaun changeable a +3. (Doug Engle/Florida Times-Union)

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McIlroy, who besides won the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am this past month, has his eyes acceptable connected The Masters adjacent period astatine Augusta National Golf Club successful Georgia, wherever helium hopes to drawback his major-less streak with his past won successful 2014. 

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