Charley Hull desires newly minted Masters champion Rory McIlroy to tune out the noise as he enjoys this long-awaited victory lap.
Talking not too long ago to US Weekly, the LPGA Tour star mirrored on the Northern Irishman’s epic win this month at Augusta Nationwide, the place he ended an 11-year main drought to seize a profession Grand Slam, which solid the highlight even brighter on his love life with spouse Erica Stoll.
“At the end of the day, what people say about you, whether it’s good or bad, is irrelevant,” mentioned Hull, who shot to a brand new stage of fame in 2024 after lighting up cigarettes on the Ladies’s U.S. Open.
“If you’re doing something good, people always have bad things to say about you, and try to bring you down because you’re doing well… My famous saying is, ‘People’s opinions don’t pay my bills.’ So you’ve just got to brush it off with a pinch of salt, you know what I mean?”
McIlroy, 35, celebrated his first-ever inexperienced jacket win final Sunday with Stoll and their 4-year-old daughter, Poppy, whom he discovered within the crowd on the 18th after making birdie in a one-hole playoff towards England’s Justin Rose.
The heartfelt embrace with Stoll got here lower than a 12 months after the five-time main champion filed for divorce after seven years of marriage in Could 2024. McIlroy reversed course a month later.
“There have been rumors about my personal life recently, which is unfortunate. Responding to each rumour is a fool’s game,” McIlroy mentioned in a press release to The Guardian final June.
“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.”
That “new beginning” was on show this month at Augusta, the place Stoll joined McIlroy as a part of the family-and-friends-focused Par 3 contest, the place Poppy put her placing expertise on show.
The couple’s daughter took middle stage in McIlroy’s victory speech on April 13.
“The one thing I would say to my daughter, Poppy, who’s 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,” he mentioned.
Days after the victory, McIlroy was photographed exiting a personal jet with Poppy after touching down in Northern Eire.
It stays to be seen if Stoll and Poppy will probably be in attendance subsequent month at Quail Hole, the place McIlroy competes for his second main of the 12 months on the PGA Championship.
He received in 2012 and 2014.
