Pro golfer Rory McIlroy is building a new home in London.
His admission came amid rumors that he and wife Erica Stoll were contemplating a move to the U.K. with their 4-year-old daughter, Poppy, though McIlroy, 35, stopped short of saying the couple was moving there permanently.
“We first went to London with Erica and Poppy to see our new home that we’re building and we made the trip over to Belfast to see a few other people that are important to us,” McIlroy told reporters on Wednesday, April 23.
McIlroy is still basking in the glow of his Masters win earlier this month in Augusta. It gave him a career grand slam, and he has since returned to his home in Northern Ireland to celebrate with family and friends.
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“Just to be with them, to be with Erica and Poppy and my mum and dad,” McIlroy continued. ‘To see Michael Bannon, my lifelong coach, and spend a bit more time with Harry (Diamond) and his wife. [To] celebrate with the people that have been part of this whole thing for my entire career was absolutely amazing.”
News of McIlroy and Stoll’s new home comes less than a year after McIlroy filed paperwork to end their marriage after seven years, calling it “irretrievably broken.”
“A point of contention in Rory’s marriage with Erica was that Erica was lonely in their marriage,” a source told Us at the time. “Rory was a hard person to be married to.”
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The source added that even though Stoll knew what she was getting into when she married McIlroy, having Poppy changed her perspective and that the two “were living very different lives the last two years with him being on the road, and eventually she had a breaking point.”
In June 2024, McIlroy filed to dismiss the divorce and the pair appeared in public together at the U.S. Open.
McIlroy also addressed his marriage in season 3 of Netflix’s Full Swing, which was released in February 2025. He admitted at the time that Stoll told him that she was ready for a change in scenery after the two reconciled.
“If it was up to her, she wouldn’t move to England straightaway, but she definitely wants to spend more time there,” he said.
He also addressed the toll that it took on his family to watch his marriage drama play out in the public eye.
“I’ve always tried to be protective of my loved ones from people that have ill intentions,” he said. I think it was a wake-up call for me to say, ‘Let’s just focus on the golf for a little bit.’”
He added, “There’s parts of my life that I like to keep as private as possible.Unfortunately, in this line of work, that isn’t always possible.”
