EXCLUSIVE Inside the 'Mac Pack'! How Rory McIlroy's tight-knit group of school friends have rallied around golf superstar during breakdown of his marriage to Erica Stoll By Nick Craven In Siena Published: 03:55 EDT, 25 May 2024 | Updated: 07:55 EDT, 25 May 2024 e-mail 15 View comments Rory McIlroy has held an emotional reunion with the tight-knit group of mates providing him with a support network during the breakdown of his marriage to Erica Stoll. The pals, dubbed the 'Mac Pack' all hail from the same leafy Belfast suburb of Holywood where the Northern Irish golf superstar was born and brought up and they gathered this week at the wedding of one of their number. Set in an idyllic venue in the vine-covered hills overlooking Siena, Rory was one of the ushers for his friend, golf agent Mitchell Tweedie as he married his fiancée Lynsey Agnew, a wealth management specialist.
The event came at a turbulent time in 35-year-old McIlroy's own life, as speculation has grown about a budding romance with US TV reporter Amanda Balionis, 38, a glamorous CBS golf correspondent who was seen to have ditched her own wedding ring in recent days. The pals, dubbed the 'Mac Pack' (from L-R) Ricky McCormick, golf coach at Holywood golf club, Steven Davidson, brothers Dan Diamond and Harry Diamond, and Mitchell Tweedie the groom and Rory McIlroy Rory McIlroy has held an emotional reunion with the tight-knit group of mates providing him with a support network during the breakdown of his marriage t.