Rory McIlroy Is Living The High Life
And off the course, McIlroy has done his best to justify the gossipy interest in his personal life. There was his brief engagement with former top-ranked tennis player Caroline Wozniacki. When they called off the wedding just days after the invitations had been mailed out, fans knew just as quickly, thanks to Twitter that, Wozzilroy was over. “The wedding invitations issue made me realize that I wasn’t ready for all that marriage entails,” McIlroy says. Still, the breakup didn’t stop him from winning the European PGA Championship, the biggest victory in Europe, less than a week later.
And if you ask him—and the parade of beautiful women who’ve come since—it worked out for the best. McIlroy has been rumoured to be dating Irish model Nadia Forde and South African actress/model Shashi Naidoo. Truth is, for some time he’s been seeing Erica Stoll, an employee at the PGA of America (though if you’re wondering: yes, she looks like she could model).
McIlroy realizes his life has become a fish bowl. This kind of thing hasn’t happened to a golfer since Tiger, and we all know how that ended. Still, despite the pressure, he knows it beats the alternative. “I’d rather have the questions, because it’s obviously a great position to be in,” he says. “My name is getting thrown around a little bit more than it used to, but I’m okay with that.”
He spends most of his time in a $9.5 million mansion he bought in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., where there’s an enclave of top golfers and high-end private courses in the area. It’s a quintessential bachelor pad: incredible views of the Intracoastal, a sparkling pool, a game room, a workout room and a large trophy case that he’s been busy filling. There’s hardly room to hang the club Trump dredged up for him, even if he had wanted to hang it somewhere.
