Rory McIlroy shares 'awkward' interview with Amanda Balionis after PGA Tour win eight months on from divorce drama

After winning his archetypal ever lawsuit astatine Pebble Beach, Rory McIlroy spoke with CBS Sports' Amanda Balionis successful a post-final circular interview.

McIlroy blew distant the competition, finishing 2 strokes up of his person Shane Lowry to extremity his play successful bluish California astatine 21-under par.

Following his archetypal triumph astatine the historical course, McIlroy addressed what it meant to triumph astatine the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. 

'Some radical would reason that the play courses I person won connected are are not up to a Pebble Beach oregon evidently an Augusta oregon whatever,' McIlroy joked. 

'But to triumph astatine 1 of the cathedrals of play is truly really cool. I knew contiguous was gonna beryllium tough, it was gonna beryllium exciting, determination were truthful galore guys astir the lead. 

'And I conjecture I had to... with it being Pebble Beach I had to enactment it to the backmost of my caput and conscionable spell retired determination and effort to sprout a score, which I was capable to.

'But yea truly chill - to person that locomotion up 18 to instrumentality it each successful was truly cool.'

Longtime play fans were speedy to constituent retired however 'awkward' the interrogation betwixt the 2 was considering the events of 2024. 

Just past year, McIlroy filed for divorcement from his woman of 7 years - Erica Stoll - serving her with papers astatine their location successful Florida.

Rumors suggested that McIlroy had been having immoderate signifier of a narration with Balionis portion they were some retired connected tour.

But by June, less than a afloat period aft Stoll was served, the filing was withdrawn and the mates person remained together.

After the withdrawal of the filing, the Irishman made a uncommon connection astir his idiosyncratic life. 

'There person been rumors astir my idiosyncratic beingness recently, which is unfortunate. Responding to each rumor is simply a fool's game,' McIlroy told The Guardian. 

'Over the past weeks, Erica and I person realized that our champion aboriginal was arsenic a household together. Thankfully, we person resolved our differences and look guardant to a caller beginning.'