Rory McIlroy, who credits golf with boosting his sex life, said he’ll remain true to his game for now.
Rory McIlroy says ‘golf is my girlfriend’
Four months after calling off his wedding to Caroline Wozniacki, Rory McIlroy says he’s ‘putting golf first’ and won’t be settling down any time soon.
Stuart Franklin
“Golf is my girlfriend at the minute and it’s going to be that way for a while,” McIlroy said in a BBC documentary that aired prior to Friday’s first round of the Ryder Cup.
After breaking up by phone with his tennis star ex-fiance shortly after the duo sent out wedding invitations, McIlroy went on a tear, winning the BMW PGA Championship four days later and then capturing two consecutive major championships. Back to the form with which he won the 2011 U.S. Open and 2012 PGA Championship, the world No. 1 will apparently play the field as he keeps his focus on the course.
“I’m at the stage of my career and the stage of my life when I’m putting golf first,” said McIlroy, who added the 2014 British Open and PGA Championship to his impressive resume following his breakup. “Golf is the priority for me right now. For the foreseeable future that is what it’s going to be.”
McIlroy had good reason to pledge his loyalty to golf since he joked during the documentary that he owed his success with women to his vocation. Appropriating a line from English footballer Peter Crouch, according to reports, the 25-year-old leader of the European squad at Gleneagles said if he had not been a golfer, he would be a “virgin.”
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