One Direction: Rory Skips Par-3 Over Break-up Trend

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Despite suggestions that he is skipping the Masters Par-3 contest to better prepare for four days of major championship play, multiple UK newspapers are reporting that Rory McIlroy lived in fear of causing another break-up by teeing up in the annual Wednesday event. The Northern Irishman recently became engaged to Erica Stoll.

“The fact is, he loves the Par-3,” a source close to McIlroy’s management company old The Guardian. “He loves seeing everyone’s kids and relishes the chance to take three hours to play nine short holes. But the guilt over possibly causing two straight breakups simply by teeing up was weighing on McIlroy.”

McIlroy broke off an engagement with his 2014 Par-3 contest caddie, Caroline Wozniacki.  Sources close to him say that the four-time major champion is convinced he broke up boy band One Direction after employing Niall Horan as his 2015 Par 3 caddie. McIlroy has even asked a private investigator if he somehow influenced the divorce of Greg Norman from Par-3 caddie and tennis great Chris Evert.

“The idea that he might have caused a rift in Harry Styles’ world was causing much stress,” another source told The Telegraph. “He loves One Direction and it breaks his heart that he might have played any kind of role in preventing the world from someday hearing their idea of a 21st century version of Abbey Road.”

McIlroy’s decision prompted rave reviews from the United Kingdom’s most prominent media outlets.

The Financial Times hailed the move, writing, “from a business perspective another high-profile breakup caused by Mr. McIlroy could be fatal to his carefully cultivated image.”

Scotland on Sunday declared it McIlroy's "classiest move yet" and suggested that "this was another example demonstrating how McIlroy is different than Tiger Woods or any other human of the last twenty years."

The Daily Mail praised McIlroy’s “courage in accepting that he might have impacted the dreams of million of early-teen girls and for never allowing such pain to be unleashed again. This is MBE material behavior."