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Irish Daily Mirror
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Rory McIlroy makes U-turn for Erica Stoll after being forced to sell dream home
Rory McIlroy has made a surprising U-turn, heading back to the UK for his wife Erica Stoll after selling his dream home over ten years ago to relocate to Florida. Before clinching his first two major titles, McIlroy had his perfect home constructed in 2006 in Holywood, his birthplace in Northern Ireland. The estate, sprawling across 14 acres, featured a gym, tennis court, driving range, and notably, a practice area in his garden's rear. However, due to the extensive time spent away on the PGA Tour, McIlroy listed the property in 2012 and eventually handed over the keys to ex-TV host Gary McCausland in 2013 for a sum below the £2million he initially sought. The recent Masters winner upgraded by moving into a luxurious home in Palm Beach, Florida, in 2017, which was worth three times more than his previous home onthe Northern Irish coast. The plush mansion formerly belonged to Ernie Els and was located within the exclusive confines of the Bear's Club golf community, Belfast Live. Regarding his move, McIlroy commented: "My life is here. I have an American wife. I live in America. Honestly, I enjoy it here more. The way of life is easier. The weather. The convenience." Yet, the 36-year-old, along with Erica and their four-year-old daughter, have recently relocated to the UK, taking up residence in a grand Wentworth estate in Surrey, England, following last month's US Open. McIlroy had earlier mentioned his wife's preference for a UK move to avoid the intense heat of Florida. McIlroy reportedly splashed out a cool £9m on a swanky new pad situated conveniently near London and Heathrow Airport, not to mention its proximity to one of the tees at the prestigious Wentworth golf course, the birthplace of the Ryder Cup nearly 100 years ago. Now that the building work is complete, McIlroy and his wife Stoll have settled into their grand estate. The couple faced some hiccups before moving in, including widely reported strains in their marriage, but after putting divorce talks on hold and patching things up last year, they're now enjoying their new digs. For the time being, McIlroy plans to split his time between his Florida abode and his new Surrey residence, and it seems that living in the new home has been a breath of fresh air for both him and Stoll, reigniting McIlroy's passion for the game. At the Renaissance Club in North Berwick, just before the Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy shared: "We came back a few weeks ago and moved into our new home in Wentworth and have been trying to settle in. It's amazing what two weeks of a bit of detachment can do for you." He continued, reflecting on the benefits of some downtime: "Sitting there being with your own thoughts for a while. Yeah, it's been nice to have this time to reflect and also to rekindle my excitement and enthusiasm for the rest of the year. Obviously, we have this week in Scotland and then a massive week next week [for the Open] in Portrush." McIlroy's performance saw a significant drop after he ended an 11-year major dry spell by securing the career Grand Slam with a win at the Masters in April, which significantly eased the pressure on him. However, he only managed to tie for 47th place at the PGA Championship and secured a mere 19th-place finish at the US Open.
Daily Mirror
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Erica Stoll's Rory McIlroy statement at Scottish Open said it all about marriage
Erica Stoll and Rory McIlroy saw their relationship cast into doubt when a filing for divorce was made last May, only for the couple to make a drastic U-turn on proceedings Erica Stoll's attendance at the Scottish Open last year, just weeks after she and Rory McIlroy reversed their decision to divorce, revealed a lot about her character. The golfing world was rocked last May when news broke that PGA Tour legend McIlroy and his wife were filing for divorce. The couple had tied the knot in a grand ceremony at Ireland's Ashford Castle in April 2017, following a three-year dating period. However, just days before the 2024 PGA Championship, their marriage was thrown into doubt as divorce papers were made public, describing their relationship as "broken" seven years after they wed. Just a month later, though, McIlroy and Stoll reversed their decision, with the Northern Irish golfer confirming ahead of the US Open that they would stay married. Speaking to The Guardian at the time, he said: "There have been rumours about my personal life recently, which is unfortunate. Responding to each rumour is a fool's game. "Over the past weeks, Erica and I have realised that our best future was as a family together. Thankfully, we have resolved our differences and look forward to a new beginning." A month on, Stoll was back supporting her husband as he aimed to retain his Scottish Open title at the Renaissance Club, a testament to her resilience given the intense media scrutiny their relationship had faced. She was spotted trailing her husband around the North Berwick course, keeping a keen eye on his performance, reports the Mirror US. McIlroy was also seen sporting his wedding ring again, having previously removed it in June when divorce plans were revealed. Despite a promising start at the Scottish Open, he eventually secured a T4 finish alongside Aaron Rai, Collin Morikawa and Ludvig Aberg, ending on 14-under-par. Scottish star Robert MacIntyre ultimately clinched the top spot at the tournament with an overall score of 18-under. It's been over a year since Stoll and McIlroy decided to reconcile and remain together, and the 37-year-old American has been seen by her husband's side in a number of tournaments. Stoll was a prominent figure during McIlroy's Masters victory in April, seen beaming next to the 36-year-old and hugging him as they strolled along Augusta National's greens and fairways. She was also one of the first to congratulate him after his historic win at the tournament, where he joined the elite club of players who have completed the Career Grand Slam. An emotional McIlroy couldn't hold back the tears as he approached his wife just off the 18th green, where they shared a heartfelt embrace. The tender moment continued as McIlroy hugged their daughter, Poppy, in a touching scene that captured hearts. In his victory speech, after receiving the coveted Green Jacket, McIlroy once again expressed gratitude towards his family for their unwavering support. He said: "And last but certainly not least, over to my left, my family, my team. "They've been on this journey with me the whole way through. They know the burden that I've carried to come here every year and try, and try, and try again, and the one thing I would say to my daughter Poppy that is sitting over there, never give up on your dreams. Never ever give up on your dreams. "Keep coming back, keep working hard, and if you put your mind to it you can do anything. I love you."
Irish Daily Mirror
11-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
Rory McIlroy's warning as PGA Tour star opens up after Erica Stoll wish granted
Now he and Erica Stoll have moved into their new home in the UK, Rory McIlroy warned his rivals the fire is back in his belly. After an 11-year drought, the Northern Irishman finally clinched his fifth major title and completed the career Grand Slam with a win at the Masters in April. However, his form took somewhat of a nosedive in the following weeks and months, struggling to a tied 47th finish at the PGA Championship and a disappointing 19th placed finish at the US Open. Throughout the PGA Tour campaign, McIlroy and Stoll have also had a new home in Wentworth, Surrey be constructed. They finally moved into the plush new residence, which has reportedly had around £9million invested into it. Erica had made it clear her wish was to move there. After a stressful few months, the five-time major winner has admitted finally moving into the property with Erica has been a release. Now they are all moved in, McIlroy warned his rivals that his motivation is back. Speaking to reporters at the Renaissance Club in North Berwick ahead of the Genesis Scottish Open, McIlroy said: "We came back a few weeks ago and moved into our new home in Wentworth and have been trying to settle in. It's amazing what two weeks of a bit of detachment can do for you. "Sitting there being with your own thoughts for a while. Yeah, it's been nice to have this time to reflect and also to rekindle my excitement and enthusiasm for the rest of the year. Obviously we have this week in Scotland and then a massive week next week [for the Open] in Portrush." McIlroy has previously confessed his motivation took a huge hit after he completed the Grand Slam. At the US Open, he admitted he would not have cared if he missed the cut at the Oakmont Country Club. Yet, it was his time spent with Justin Rose, whom he narrowly defeated for the Masters title in a sudden death play-off, that made McIlroy realise he needed to return to the UK to rediscover his passion for the game. He said: "There's a detachment from the sort of week-in, week-out grind when you get back over here and Justin and I were talking about that. "You play PGA Tour golf for the first 25, 30 weeks of the year and you need to completely get away from it. This world of golf can become all-encompassing. In this last fortnight, I felt like I could detach and sort of hide in a way. I needed that. My game needed that." It's been just over a year since McIlroy and Stoll had a change of heart regarding their decision to divorce. Just days before the PGA Championship in May 2024, the Holywood star initiated divorce proceedings from the American. However, a month later, they reconciled their differences and decided against going through with the separation. They've now settled into their new home within the exclusive Wentworth Estate, an area known for its past high-profile residents including Prince Andrew, former King of Thailand Prajadhipok and ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. It's believed that McIlroy snapped up the estate in 2023, splashing out approximately £9m to transform it into a family home. Planning documents describe the property as a "large, detached dwelling sited centrally within a substantive plot." This weekend, he is looking to amass the perfect momentum at the Scottish Open, one week before The Open. McIlroy won the PGA Tour event in 2023, but was tied fourth in the event last year.
USA Today
11-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Countdown to Kickoff: Jack Stoll is the Saints Player of Day 88
Countdown to Kickoff: Jack Stoll is the Saints Player of Day 88 With 88 days between now and the 2025 regular season opener for the New Orleans Saints. The Saints will host the Arizona Cardinals to kick off their 59th NFL season. Wearing No. 88 for New Orleans at this time is tight end Jack Stoll. An offseason addition by the team, Stoll is our Saints Player of the Day. Let's have a closer look at his background. Name (age): Jack Stoll (27) Jack Stoll (27) Hometown: Aurora, Colo. Aurora, Colo. Position: Tight end Tight end Height, weight: 6-foot-4, 247 pounds 6-foot-4, 247 pounds College: Nebraska Cornhuskers Nebraska Cornhuskers Relative Athletic Score: 7.97 7.97 Drafted: Undrafted, 2021 (Philadelphia Eagles) Undrafted, 2021 (Philadelphia Eagles) NFL experience: 4 seasons 4 seasons 2025 salary cap hit: $1,362,500 An all-state selection as a senior at Regis Jesuit High School in Colorado, Stoll was the nation's 9th-rated tight end and decided on Nebraska as his collegiate choice. After a redshirt year, Stoll caught eight passes as a little-used reserve in 2017. Over the next three years, he'd be a regular starter despite missing some time with injuries as a senior. Between 2018 and 2019, he'd have 46 catches for 279 yards and scored 4 times while exhibiting standout blocking skills for the Cornhuskers. Philadelphia brought Stoll in as an undrafted rookie in 2021. He wouldn't contribute much as a receiver, just 4 catches and 22 yards, but still started five contests among 16 game appearances. Stoll's contributions as a blocker continued through 2022 and 2023. He caught 16 passes for 161 yards in those two seasons combined. However, he made 21 starts and played in all 34 games, appearing in around 45% of Philadelphia's offensive snaps. New Saints head coach Kellen Moore took over as Philadelphia's offensive coordinator last season. Stoll played the year's first seven games under Moore, making two starts, before being waived just before midseason. He was picked up by the Miami Dolphins, where he played four games but caught no passes. Over his four-year career, Stoll has played in 61 of a possible 68 games. He has 22 receptions for 193 yards and has yet to score a touchdown. Stoll will now have a chance to win a role as the blocking tight end for New Orleans. It's a role where he's performed well over his short career and where his best chance at a roster spot lies.
Technical.ly
10-06-2025
- Business
- Technical.ly
Meet the ESHIP Alliance: New name for the national ecosystem building movement
Andy Stoll has one t-shirt, loads of post-it notes and a new job that's a lot like his old job. Stoll is the founding executive director of what is now called the ESHIP Alliance, a nonprofit startup that announced its new name last week in Indianapolis at the Global Entrepreneurship Congress (GEC). The GEC is a global conference organized by the Global Entrepreneurship Network (or GEN, which is lovingly pronounced like the name Jen by its many admirers). Stoll made his announcement alongside GEN founder and CEO Jonathan Ortmans, and right before Right to Start's Victor Hwang, another entrepreneurship booster with his own big announcement. They're just three of a constellation of groups that have spun off from the Kauffman Foundation 's decades-long investment in entrepreneurship. Last year, Kauffman announced plans to narrow its focus to economic opportunity in its hometown of Kansas City, winding down its national programming funding. Stoll joked that his ESHIP Alliance could be the younger sister to GEC, which makes the Kauffman Foundation mom and dad, and Hwang a kind of attentive uncle — with plenty of cousins and lots of folksy Midwestern charm to go around. Catching the ecosystem-building bug Stoll was a local organizer in Iowa first, working on startups and gatherings in the early 2000s and 2010s. Hwang, once an influential Kauffman executive, gave Stoll the language to describe what he and thousands of others were doing. 'Victor told me: What you're doing is the future of place-based economic development,' Stoll said. 'And I said: I'm doing the what of what?' In 2012, Hwang published ' The Rainforest,' a widely cited book on local economic development, and in 2017 hired Stoll. Together they produced Kauffman's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook, which put institutional heft behind rag-tag community efforts flourishing around the country. From 2017-2019, Stoll was emcee and organizer of annual Kauffman-backed ESHIP Summits. Hundreds came from around the country to discuss rebuilding their local economies from the ground up: some were there as part of their jobs, many others were not. But most talk fondly and passionately about being part of something that seemed overlooked then and is now taken more seriously. Stoll and his team would stock up on colorful post-it notes, markers and engagement activities. As a 2023 report on the origins of inclusive entrepreneurship tracked, many grassroots efforts to reshape local economies took hold after the Great Recession and steadily grew during the 2010s. One of the most enduring is the 'entrepreneurial ecosystem building' that is sometimes called ' place-based economic development ' among industry insiders. Their shared and primary push: state and local policymakers and civic leaders should put entrepreneurship at the center of their strategies for economic growth, opportunity and development. Like scripture passages, these believers cite studies showing that new businesses create effectively all net new jobs, and that each 1% increase in entrepreneurship correlates with 2% declines in poverty. The ecosystem metaphor teaches that big institutions are vital, but must prioritize the many differently sized, aged and types of organizations that overlap to make an economy. NRPs: National ecosystem resource providers Stoll is friendly, chatty, and millennial nerd chic enough to be among the movement's leaders, backed by the influence and checkbook of the Kauffman Foundation. Over a decade-plus, from an early Startup Champions summit to SXSW activations and beyond, I've seen Stoll at his most comfortable in a t-shirt, effusing folksy modesty while cracking self-effacing jokes and serving as a community historian of the work, preferably leading an exercise on collaboration with post-it notes. Pushed out of the comfortable confines of the Kauffman Foundation, Stoll is now stitching together a coalition so this on-the-ground change can last. Among his partners is Black-entrepreneurship focused Forward Cities, which also got its start with Kauffman funding and has been long led by Stoll's years-long collaborator Fay Horwitt. Together this week, they introduced the ESHIP Alliance's renewed focus to a network of so-called national ecosystem resource providers (NRPs) — organizations that address needs common to many ecosystems or state and local entrepreneurial communities. 'At its core, this alliance is about strengthening the profession of ecosystem building across the United States,' Stoll said in a GEC session. 'We need entrepreneurship, we need ecosystems, but we need to center equity so anyone, anywhere who wants to be an entrepreneur has the opportunity to participate.' The alliance will gather these resource providers and help advance and formalize 'ecosystem building' as a discipline for state and local governments to embrace. Events, training material and policy positions will help. As part of that work the ESHIP Alliance launched the ESHIP Commons, a social network intended to help ecosystem builders connect, share ideas and find resources. What's next for the ESHIP Alliance Turns out Technically itself is an NRP, so I was at one of Stoll's tables at GEC — years since the last time I saw him in action. On stage, he guided about a hundred NRP leaders through a series of exercises to identify the next set of challenges and potential solutions for ecosystem building. Much to attendee amusement, Stoll's presentation included a photo of him from years ago wearing the same 'Mass Collaboration' t-shirt he wore this week, signaling that while much has changed, many faces haven't. Horrowit was up next with an exercise that cleverly required attendees to never reference funding as a problem. As she said, 'That's a problem for everyone, give us something new.' That let us focus on more specific obstacles to advance the work of centering entrepreneurship in local policymaking and economic development. Good for an exercise, but what's next? Stoll, like this conversation, has graduated from the Kauffman nest (the group was initially called the Ecosystem Builders Leadership Network, so the rebrand gives it a fresh start). Entrepreneurship rates have surged post pandemic, led by women and people of color. That's caught the attention of serious state and local leaders. Stoll, Hwang and so many others have for years advocated for a bigger stage, and now they have it. Stoll donned a dress shirt to get on the GEC main stage and announce his organization's new name. He seemed more at home the next day in his t-shirt, pushing all of us who support local entrepreneurship and innovation efforts across the country. Said Stoll: 'We have who we need in the room.'
