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Being a Father Puts Things into Perspective

Golf will be very different for Rory McIlroy in 2021. At the end of August (2020), McIlroy and his wife Erica became parents to a baby girl they named Poppy. They said, “she is the absolute love of our lives.”

Of course, having a baby changes everything. A fact that McIlroy acknowledged in a recent interview:

Before I had a family, golf was most important, and then once you have a family, golf (is) definitely not the most important. It’s your family. They’re by far the most important.

I don’t know, it just puts things in perspective. I love golf and I enjoy it and it’s my job. Whether I played on Tour or not I’d still play the game of golf. But it’s one of those where once you have a family, all your priorities change, but in a good way, in a very good way.

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