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RORY McILROY AND his wife Erica have called off their divorce and are looking forward to “a new beginning”, the golfer told The Guardian newspaper.
McIlroy filed divorce papers to end the seven-year marriage last month, on the eve of the PGA Championship.
But ahead of this week’s US Open, the third major of the season, the Northern Irishman said there had been a change of heart.
“There have been rumours about my personal life recently, which is unfortunate. Responding to each rumour is a fool’s game,” the world number three told the newspaper.
“Over the past weeks, Erica and I have realised that our best future was as a family together. Thankfully, we have resolved our differences and look forward to a new beginning,” he added.
Erica Stoll was working for the PGA of America when she met McIlroy in 2012 at the Ryder Cup.
They began dating in 2015, becoming engaged in December that year while on holiday in Paris and marrying in April 2017 at an Irish castle.
Their daughter, Poppy, was born in 2020.
Four-time major winner McIlroy previously dated Danish tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
They were engaged on December 31, 2013, but McIlroy announced in May 2014 that he had ended the engagement.
The 35-year-old has been in upbeat mood ahead of this week’s contest at Pinehurst.
McIlroy, who has not won a major since the 2014 PGA Championship, has 20 top-10 major results since that decade-old triumph and is confident that he can make the breakthrough this week.
“Getting my hands on a fifth major has taken quite a while, but I’m more confident than ever that I’m right there, that I’m as close as I’ve ever been,” McIlroy said on Tuesday.
“I feel like all aspects of my game are in pretty good shape at the minute.”
He will play alongside top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and world number two Xander Schauffele in the first two rounds.
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Right enough is enough. The majority are black racists living in furgison. The complain about a thug being shot. They riot and loot hard workings people’s shops and now shoot two police.
Enough……. Police should say to the PC brigade we ate on strike you deal with it. Be just like if the guards pulled out of coolock. The toerags would take over.
*would* take over? Erm, who exactly do you reckon is in control of Coolock presently?
Hopefully one day the media will be exposed for all the lies reported on this incident.
Lets not forget also George Soros was involved in funding many of these “spontaneous” protests through his ‘open foundation’.
Love ur logo plantation, but surely you cant be against these protests? Kids shot for nothing.
One of the “kids” was 6 foot 4, built like a tank, was involved in an assault and robbery earlier that day and was attacking a police officer at the time of his shooting. The other killed at a petrol station drew an illegal gun on police.
Now police officers have been shot at these protests. The police in Ferguson are getting a lot of understandable bad press but it seems the Ferguson community is just as bad.
The 20 stone ‘kid ‘ was shot because after robbing the local convenience store and terrorizing it’s Korean shopkeeper he charged an armed officer and tried to snatch his weapon.
That is just as tainted view as saying “kids were shot” he wasn’t very close to the cop when he was shot in the head, so charging trying to take his weapon is a bit of a leap now.
Jesus Christ monkey balls.
Is this the same “kid” that Trayvon Martin was too, as I recall he was well over 6 foot and had racked up a considerable amount of trouble with drugs.
To hell with you…! I’m never gonna frame an innocent man again. Unless he’s black.
What’s Globalist, Population Controller, Eugenicist Soros up to?
Funding protests so that he can make big profits from his investments in his companies that supply goods and services to the cops and FEMA camps?
choke him then shoot him serg .. standard police protocol
Ferguson POlice getting a bit their own medicine, I wonder if they like the taste?
Luke an innocent man was shot in the face, how old are you 12?. Why don’t you mosey on over to America put on a police uniform and patrol these heavily black areas, you wouldn’t last ten minutes.
we all know the heavily black areas need the most armed white officers .. that’s just logical
It is logical considering black people make up 13% of Americas population but are responsible for 50%-70% of all crime depending on the category.
no arguing with those facts just further proves the fact that American police are inherently racist against anyone that’s not white ..
what does my age have to do with anything? shot on the face, oh well he’ll recover!
How do you disproportionately target the largest (67.4%) demographic in a particular area?
That’s damn fine police work. Damn fine.
The claim is that 67.4% of the people are black, but over 67.4% of people stopped for traffic offences are black. A difference is taken as irrefutable proof of racism, rather than looking for alternative explanations.
You can’t legislate for stupidity ,
Especially when it’s rampant on both sides….
And then people wonder why Police in the US are armed to the teeth. When a section of the community see the Police as the strong arm of a Government they don’t participate in (through their own lack of interest) they begin to view the police as a hostile force and thus begin the circle. They are Hostile to the Police who in turn return that hostility.
The guy was thrown under the bus. Very little hard proof of any bias in the department. http://nypost.com/2015/03/09/ferguson-fake-out-justice-departments-bogus-report/
He was effectively cleared of any wrongdoing, then allowed to resign with a year’s severance pay as if he’d just been downsized, and allowed to call it a “mutual parting” to save face.
That’s hardly “throwing him under the bus”.
The justice dept had to remove someone after the condemnation recieved by the grand jury verdict. Had there not been such a rush to cry racism then this situation would never have been more than local news and the poliece chief would still have his job. Thrown under the bus was a bit much, but he was forced out to suit the story that the department is a hotbed of racism and now it’ll all be made better.
Díreach tar éis Selma a fheiceáil. Tá sé dochreidthe go bhfuil an fhaidhb seo beagnach chomh dona is a bhí sé riamh – níos mionchúisigh anois ach díreach chomh nimneach.
Speak English!
He has a right to speak Irish if he wants to.
The reason police target minorities as a revenue source is because the high crime rates that they bring to an area usually drives away local businesses (white flight) who provide tax revenue and jobs (more tax). When white flight occurs the local government has to get it’s funding from somewhere. And that somewhere is usually fines and things like that.
*Its
Maybe they target the “mintorities” (your words) is because of the high crime rates (again your words). Not the best founded argument there that you’re putting forward!
You have just repeated what i said. They target them as a revenue source because they have no choice, in other words the follow the letter of law and squeeze as much fine money as they can out of them because the major demographic in Ferguson does not produce much productive business (no tax intake). It’s either that or public services collapse and crime and poverty explode.
jack that’s a load of pigeon shite
Disgusting.
The sad part is, if the cops had of seen the perpetrators drawing their guns to shoot them, and the cops took action, we’d be hearing of another shooting carried out by evil racist nazi kkk cops…
Absolutely disgraceful
It’s not like you see cops going around and shooting innocent people and dogs for the hell of it.
Don’t you just love how Ferguson comes back into the news as soon as it’s a white man that’s shot……….
You think it wouldn’t make it to the news if cops shot another black guy???
Have you seen any information about how many black people are shot and killed or choked and killed or beaten and killed by cops in the last few years in America?? American cops are power mad racist pigs!
Actually more white people have been killed by cops in America, but don’t let that get in the way of your rant…
Although agreed, some individual cops are racist pigs, just like you’d find in any other profession….
typical NAGGERS always shooting poor white military i mean police officers
Luke would you ever shut up, you sound like an angsty teenager. Two men were shot for just doing their job, to saying all Ferguson police officers are racists is like saying all Irish people are drunks. You’re an embarrassment.
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