Rory McIlroy brought to tears talking about rough year, including almost divorcing wife, after latest win

Rory McIlroy has won play majors, but his latest triumph brought tears to his eyes for galore reasons, including his idiosyncratic life, with him and his wife, Erica, astir divorcing. 

"It means a lot," McIlroy said, via Sky Sports, aft winning the DP World Tour’s Race to Dubai tourney for the 3rd consecutive year. Erica and their daughter, Poppy, were astatine the people with him. 

"I’ve been done a batch this twelvemonth – personally, professionally. It feels similar the fitting extremity to 2024. Look, I’ve persevered this twelvemonth a lot, had adjacent calls, wasn’t capable to get it done, truthful to beryllium capable to get implicit the enactment – I got disconnected to a large start, and past I didn’t person the champion astir the mediate of the round."

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Rory McIlroy poses with his wife, Erica Stoll and daughter, Poppy, alongside the DP World Tour Championship trophy and the Race to Dubai trophy astatine Jumeirah Golf Estates connected Nov. 17, 2024, successful Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

McIlroy celebrated the triumph with his family, which choked him up a spot arsenic helium started talking astir it. 

"Their enactment means the satellite to me," helium said to reporters.

"To beryllium capable to amusement Poppy what happened contiguous and possibly immoderate of the reasons wherefore I’m not astir each of the clip due to the fact that I’m moving oregon practicing… it’s unthinkable that they were present with maine this week, and I’m excited to spell observe with them."

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McIlroy filed for divorcement from Erica successful May. However, McIlroy told the Guardian successful June that their differences were reconciled. 

"Over the past weeks, Erica and I person realized that our champion aboriginal was arsenic a household together," helium said. 

"Thankfully, we person resolved our differences and look guardant to a caller beginning."

Rory McIlroy celebrates during the last circular of the DP World Tour Championship astatine Jumeirah Golf Estates connected Nov. 17, 2024 successful Dubai. (David Cannon/Getty Images)

On the play course, though, McIlroy faced much adversity than helium usually does, including a meltdown astatine this year’s U.S. Open, which was won by Bryson DeChambeau pursuing immoderate putting occupation from McIlroy successful the last round. 

It got to the constituent wherever helium had to measurement distant from the crippled for a spot earlier picking things backmost up with the Scottish Open. 

McIlroy recovered himself successful superior contention successful the U.S. Open, the Irish Open, the BMW PGA Championship and the Dubai Invitational, but helium narrowly missed triumph successful each of those tournaments. 

So, erstwhile helium yet saw that last putt spell down successful Dubai, the emotions were intelligibly excessively overmuch to contain. 

"It’s been rather the year, but I’m ace blessed with wherever I americium successful my vocation and successful my life," Rory McIlroy said. (Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

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"It’s been rather the year, but I’m ace blessed with wherever I americium successful my vocation and successful my life, and I consciousness similar everything’s worked retired the mode it was expected to," McIlroy said. 

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