Who is Rory McIlroy’s wife?

He is one of professional golf’s biggest stars, but who is Rory McIlroy’s wife?

Rory McIlroy’s wife Erica Stoll, and there’s quite the story behind how the couple met.

Stoll was on site at Medinah, during the 2012 Ryder Cup, where she helped McIlroy avoid an unfortunate mishap. The Northern Irishman almost missed his tee time after a mix up with time zones, but Stoll helped to get him a police escort to the course, making his tee time for his match with Keegan Bradley by a matter of minutes.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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The pair were initially friends, as McIlroy was still dating tennis player Caroline Wozniacki. However, the pair started dating in late 2014, just over two years after they met.

McIlroy proposed to Stoll in Paris in late 2015, and they got married in 2017 in County Mayo, Ireland.

Stoll actually had a connection to golf before meeting the 2014 Open champion. After she left college, she worked for the PGA of America as an office manager.

Before their marriage in 2017, McIlroy said: “Erica has been around me quite a lot at tournaments but we have really just tried to keep it low key.

“She is a very low key person, not the kind to broadcast stuff, but that side of my life is really good just now. We are excited, our parents are excited, so it is a really happy time.”

McIlroy and Stoll’s first child, Poppy, was born on August 31, 2020.