Rory McIlroy’s divorce bombshell with spouse Erica Stoll was placed on show within the Season 3 trailer for “Full Swing” on Netflix.
The docu-series, which follows a few of the world’s prime golfers out and in of competitors, confirmed McIlroy seemingly attempting to flee Netflix cameras after he filed for divorce from Stoll in Florida final Could.
The following month, McIlroy’s divorce petition was voluntarily dismissed by a court docket in Palm Seaside County, Fla., the place the couple lives with their 4-year-old daughter Poppy, Web page Six beforehand reported.
Within the trailer, somebody says, “Everybody’s telephones simply began blowing up” earlier than one other particular person provides, “Rory’s divorce.”
It then cuts to a scene by which McIlroy is on the cellphone whereas grabbing a duffle bag out of the trunk of his automotive.
“The Netflix cameras are following me proper now so,” McIlroy, 35, says whereas his again is turned to the digital camera.
“I’ve struggled with attempting to be the very best golfer, the very best husband, the very best dad,” McIlroy says in a confessional.
McIlroy had confronted added strain to win his first main in a decade when the divorce information broke.
McIlroy said their marriage was “irretrievably damaged” and he requested for break up custody of his and Stoll’s daughter in his divorce paperwork — filed a day after he received the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte on Could 12, which Stoll didn’t attend.
One other report on the time by the Each day Mail claimed McIlroy and CBS reporter Amanda Balionis have been “the discuss of the hyperlinks.”
McIlroy and Balionis by no means addressed that report.
Final June, McIlroy addressed rumors about his private life and defined that he and Stoll resolved their variations.
“There have been rumors about my private life lately, which is unlucky. Responding to every rumor is a idiot’s recreation,” McIlroy informed The Guardian in an announcement they revealed on June 11.
“Over the previous weeks, Erica and I’ve realized that our greatest future was as a household collectively. Fortunately, we’ve resolved our variations and look ahead to a brand new starting.”
The following month, Stoll was all smiles whereas supporting McIlroy on the Genesis Scottish Open following his collapse at on the U.S. Open.
McIlroy mirrored on his whirlwind 12 months and thanked his spouse after he received the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai for the third straight 12 months final November.
“I’ve been by way of so much this 12 months — personally, professionally. It feels just like the becoming finish to 2024,” McIlroy mentioned whereas choking up. “Look, I’ve persevered this 12 months so much, had shut calls, wasn’t capable of get it achieved, so to have the ability to recover from the road — I obtained off to an incredible begin, after which I didn’t have the very best across the center of the spherical.”
Stoll has but to publicly deal with the divorce drama.
Season 3 of “Full Swing” premieres on Netflix Feb. 25
It options all 4 of of golf’s main championships: the Masters, PGA Championship, U.S. Open, and British Open.