{"id":190400,"date":"2025-06-17T01:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190400\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T01:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T01:17:11","slug":"rory-mcilroy-living-two-different-lives-as-wife-erica-stoll-misses-us-open-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/190400\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy living ‘two different lives’ as wife Erica Stoll misses US Open campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rory McIlroy has admitted he feels he lives ‘two different lives’ after failing to win the US Open on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old shot a brilliant 67 in the final round but it wasn’t enough to challenge JJ Spaun, who proceeded to claim the first major of his career.<\/p>\n

When McIlroy won the Masters at Augusta back in April, wife Erica Stoll – and the couple’s four-year-old daughter Poppy – cheered him on from the sidelines.<\/p>\n

Both Erica and Poppy were absent from the PGA Championship, however, while it was a similar story at the US Open last week.<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy has admitted he feels he lives ‘two different lives’ after failing to win the US Open on Sunday<\/p>\n

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Erica is believed to have stayed in Florida<\/a>, with the family set to leave America behind in order to return to the UK.<\/p>\n

And McIlroy has now admitted that he feels like he lives ‘two different lives’ due to balancing his family life and golfing commitments.<\/p>\n

“It’s always nice to get home. I feel like I live two different lives,” he explained.<\/p>\n

“I’m a dad and a husband when I’m away from here, and then I’m who I am when I’m here. It’s always nice to get away and feel a bit of normality.”<\/p>\n

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Last year, McIlroy filed for divorce from wife Erica.<\/p>\n

However, the pair ended up reconciling – with reports suggesting the golfer performed a U-turn because he struggles to be alone.<\/p>\n

It was also claimed at the time that Erica felt lonely in the marriage, perhaps due to her husband always on tour.<\/p>\n

McIlroy’s next big aim will be winning The Open at Royal Portrush, with that competition set to commence on July 17.<\/p>\n

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Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll are set to return to the UK now the US Open is out of the way<\/p>\n

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Discussing his hopes of going all the way, the Briton added: “[I’m] just trying to get myself in the right frame of mind to approach that.<\/p>\n

“I feel like playing an Open at Portrush already and sort of at least remembering what those feelings were like and those feelings that I was probably unprepared for at the time…<\/p>\n

“I felt like I was about to burst into tears [trying to make the cut at Portrush in 2019]. Just that support and that love from your own people. So I was unprepared for that.<\/p>\n

“I need to just get myself in the right frame of mind to feel those feelings again.”<\/p>\n

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McIlroy previously won The Open all the way back in 2014.<\/p>\n

On that occasion things went down to the wire, with the Northern Irishman eventually able to get the better of Rickie Fowler and Sergio Garcia.<\/p>\n

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JJ Spaun produced a stunning birdie late on to win the US Open on Sunday<\/p>\n

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Xander Schauffele won the tournament last year, fending off competition from Justin Rose and Billy Horschel to reign supreme.<\/p>\n

McIlroy, Spaun and Scottie Scheffler have all won majors so far in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has admitted he feels he lives ‘two different lives’ after failing to win the US Open…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[2826,12,93,79,16,15,978,727],"class_list":{"0":"post-190400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sport","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-us-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114696070541665033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}