RORY McILROY is reportedly NOT dating TV host Amanda Balionis after their flirty interview.
The golf superstar filed for divorce from wife Erica Stoll this month after seven years of marriage.
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And just days after the news, McIlroy sparked romance rumours with CBS Sports reporter Balionis following a flirty interview at the Wells Fargo Championship.
It’s claimed “flames were fanned” as Balionis “giggled, flirted, and fan-girled her way through the interview”, while “McIlroy appeared happy to bask in this clear adoration” from her.
Neither of them have made a public statement about the rumours.
However, US Weekly claims the pair are not romantically involved.
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It’s stated that four-time major winner McIlroy and Balionis have a strictly “professional relationship.”
And there is nothing going on between the pair.
Balionis has been married to Bryan Renner, a football coach, since 2022.
While McIlroy’s thoughts are on next month’s US Open after splitting from wife Stoll.
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The pair first met when she was working at the Ryder Cup in 2011.
A year later, she secured a police escort for McIlroy after he slept in during the Ryder Cup, allowing Team Europe to complete the “Miracle at Medinah.”
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They began dating in 2015, one year after McIlroy called off his engagement to tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
And the pair ended up getting hitched in 2017, with star guests at the wedding including Stevie Wonder, Coldplay’s Chris Martin and One Direction’s Niall Horan.
McIlroy and Stoll welcomed daughter Poppy in 2020.
But earlier this month, McIlroy submitted a three-page document to a court in Florida filing for divorce.
His reps told SunSport: “Rory McIlroy’s communications team confirmed today that a divorce has been filed.
"They stressed Rory’s desire to ensure this difficult time is as respectful and amicable as possible. He will not be making any further comment.”
Inside McIlroy’s whirlwind love life, including tennis champ and Meghan Markle
By Jon Boon
AND so it has run its course.
Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll, who appeared a match made in heaven, are no more.
The pair were married for seven years and share a daughter called Poppy, who was born in 2020.
But the Northern Ireland golf star surprised fans everywhere when filed for divorce in May 2024.
And it isn’t the first time McIlroy’s relationships have made the headlines – with a romantic history involving a tennis star and even Meghan Markle.
When McIlroy burst onto the scene as a fresh faced teenager, he was supported by childhood sweetheart Holly.
However, they split up after he hit the big time - with McIlroy claiming the split was "amicable."
But Holly alleged the golfer had left her for tennis star Caroline Wozniacki.
Beginning their romance in such an unceremonious way wasn't the ideal start with the Danish tennis beauty.
They reportedly met at a boxing match, and soon prospered as a sporting power couple with McIlroy proposing on a romantic holiday to Monte Carlo on New Year’s eve 2013.
Fancy wedding invitations were sent to friends and family, with a date set.
However, Rory allegedly dumped Caroline in a three-minute PHONE CALL - just months before their nuptials.
And it was reportedly all down to a picture Wozniaki had put on Twitter.
In 2014, McIlroy was even romantically linked with the now duch*ess of Sussex, Meghan.
The pair flirted in a video shared on social media, as he helped the American actress take part in the Ice Bucket Challenge, a viral trend adopted by many celebs to raise money for ALS.
Later Markle would wax lyrical about McIlroy on her blog.
But nothing even came of it as McIlroy soon fell for Erica – who he had met in bizarre circ*mstances after sleeping through his alarm at the 2012 Ryder Cup.
Erica, who worked on Tour, spared McIlroy’s embarrassment as he she helped him make his tee-time thanks to a police escort.
The incident began a firm friendship between the pair, four years before their relationship turned romantic.
Soon after, the couple got engaged in Paris and walked down the aisle at Ashford Castle in Ireland in 2017.
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