Rory McIlroy changed golf balls at Wells Fargo but not in a way you’d expect (2024)

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What golf balls does Rory McIlroy use? ›

This is what Rory's golf balls look like, by the way. He plays the TaylorMade TP5x with the words "RORS" instead of a number.

Interestingly, this was the first week McIlroy used a TaylorMade TP5x ball with no number on it. Previously he used golf balls with the number 22, a nod to his marriage to Erica Stoll on April 22, 2017, but also because the number 22 meant “powerful” and “high risk, high reward.”

It's McIlroy's fourth title at Quail Hollow – he also won the Wells Fargo in 2010 (as a 20-year-old, his first TOUR win), 2015 and 2021. McIlroy is now 35 and can call himself a 26-time PGA TOUR winner.

Should he win this year, he'll bring home $3.6 mill. How the times have changed. With that, below you can check out the complete payout breakdown for this week's Wells Fargo Championship, played at Quail Hollow Club. The total purse is $20 million.

PGA TOUR players do not take golf ball switches lightly. Rory McIlroy did recently make a change, however. He has switched to this year's newly-announced edition of TaylorMade's TP5x, which is engineered with a new "Speed Wrapped Core" that helps reduce spin on long shots while enhancing spin around the greens.

As of 2023, Rory McIlroy's net worth stood at an impressive $80.8 million, meaning his earnings have skyrocketed by a huge amount over recent months. In 2022, McIlroy achieved his biggest payday on the course until that point, earning a record-breaking $26.7 million in prize money.

McIlroy and his wife, Erica Stoll, had a storybook meeting during the Ryder Cup in 2012, began dating two years later and were married in 2017. They have one daughter, Poppy, born in September 2020.

Here's everything to know about Rory McIlroy's wife, Erica Stoll.

Nike is understood to be the leading contributor towards his sizeable endorsem*nt earnings. Between May 2022 and May 2023, McIlroy reportedly earned $40 million from sponsorships. Estimates of his Nike payments vary between $10 million and $20 million.

According to golf.com, the initiation fee for Quail Hollow Club is $100,000.

Is the Wells Fargo Championship always at Quail Hollow? ›

The Wells Fargo Championship is a professional golf tournament in North Carolina on the PGA Tour. Held in early May, usually at the Quail Hollow Club in Charlotte, it has attracted some of the top players on the tour.

Tiger Woods has faithfully trusted Bridgestone golf balls in his game for nearly a quarter of a century. His 2000 season is one of the greatest seasons in all of golf's history, which is also the first year he adopted Nike's Bridgestone-manufactured ball into his game.

What golf ball does Jon Rahm use? Spanish golfer Jon Rahm uses Callaway Chrome Soft X balls. Currently the number 2 in the world, Rahm holds the record for being the number one ranked amateur in the world for the longest period of time.