Rory Wiped Up To Eight Phones In Fear Of...Journalists!?
/Tim Healy in the Irish Times reports on the latest discovery battle between Rory McIlroy and Horizon Sports. 
In attempting to gather information in their defense, Horizon says McIlroy wiped clean up to eight mobile phones. He apparently keeps so many phones because, try not to laugh, he's fearful of calls from journalists?
And here I thought he was just worrying Mum would call wanting her winter coat back.
Anyway, Horizon's attorney isn't buying the story and wants the phones to see what can be recovered.
Mr Sreenan said if his side’s experts gets the devices, it may be possible to recover some of the information sought or other information of assistance to the case.
It was a very serious matter for the administration of justice where someone involved in court proceedings had failed to preserve material, he said.
Mr McIlroy had initially claimed he changed his devices regularly because of his “transient life-style”. Only on Tuesday he had stated he changed them to avoid phone calls from journalists, counsel said.
The defendants believe he could not have changed phones and devices without backing up data and conversations because it would mean, for instance, ongoing conversations about who would be on the Ryder Cup team, would be wiped.
And he wouldn't want to forget that he told Captain McGinley not to pair him with GMac in foursomes!
So the lad needs multiple phones to avoid calls from journalists? Who knew his numbers were so easily gettable? Rory doesn't back up his phones and wipes them (and dad's...such a good son!) to avoid someone from hacking?
Okay, I'll kind of grant him that since a certain media company did like to hack celebrity phones.
But eight? All getting the factory reset treatment? When did he find time to practice?
**Healy filed this later piece that appeared in the Irish Independent and explains more clearly exactly what our wee scrubber was doing to avoid the world's scribblers.
Mr McIlroy, in an affidavit sworn in Palm Beach, Florida, on Monday night, said he had already provided a significant amount of detail for the case in compliance with a previous court order.
He said he had not been advised it was necessary to back up material before factory resetting his phones, which he changed regularly to have the most up-to-date model.
The golfer said he used the internet-based iCloud storage system to transfer material from one phone to another. But he used the factory reset facility before changing phones in order to preserve his privacy and to avoid unsolicited calls from journalists.
