As Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll call off plans to divorce, in a stark U-turn, the Mirror takes a look at the brutal 'three-minute' break-up call that ended another significant romance in his life
Rory McIlroy and Erica Stoll have decided to give their marriage another go - but this isn't the only romantic drama the four-time major champ has had to contend with.
Erica, 36, was then afforded the state's customary 20-day period in which to provide a response. However, this deadline has since been and gone and the reconciled couple - who are parents to three-year-old Poppy - have now made a major U-turn, confirming they're 'looking forward to a new future together'.
Before his 2017 marriage to Erica, Rory was previously engaged to Danish tennis star Caroline and from the outside at least, their romance seemed like a true sporting fairytale. Rory proposed as the pair celebrated New Year's Eve 2013 in Sydney, Australia - and Caroline joyfully accepted. It later emerged that Rory had broken the engagement off over the phone - in a short call that lasted just three minutes. Expressing her disappointment in a September 2014 interview on In Depth with Graham Bensinger, Caroline admitted: "I was shocked. I thought at least it would be face to face or something but there was nothing. It was a phone call and I didn't hear from him again. It was very hard because he made it very public from the start.
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