The Ryder Cup isn’t just a showcase for the best golfers from the United States and Europe. The lead-up to the sport’s most prestigious international team event also puts a spotlight on their wives and girlfriends.
Yes, the WAGs of professional golf are part the 45th edition of the Ryder Cup and they were out in full force on Tuesday, Sept. 23 for the traditional Ryder Cup welcome dinner before the first tee shots of 2025 are hit starting Friday morning. This year’s gala feast was held at Hempstead House, a 50,000 square foot, Tudor-style mansion in New York near Bethpage Black Golf Course, and the annual photos featuring the Ryder Cup golfers and their significant others have once again turned into popular talking points.
The U.S. team wore black Ralph Lauren suits without ties and the Europe team wore Loro Piana black suits and ties with grey-and-white striped dress shirts and black leather loafers. Their wives and girlfriends, however, stood out wearing designer gowns and dresses in an array of colors and styles.
So who are these women? And are there any single golfers playing at this year’s Ryder Cup? Here’s a breakdown of what to know about the wives and girlfriends for every golfer participating in the 2025 Ryder Cup:
Ryder Cup WAGS 2025: Wives and girlfriends for every golfer
United States
Bryson DeChambeau
The 32-year-old might be one of the few single golfers at this year’s Ryder Cup. He has long been rumored to be dating Lilia Schneider, a golf internet personality and college golfer at Marian University in Indianapolis last year. But neither DeChambeau nor Schneider have confirmed the relationship to this point and DeChambeau attended Tuesday’s Ryder Cup gala stag.
Xander Schauffele
The two-time major winner will play his first professional event as a father at the 2025 Ryder Cup. Schauffele and his wife, Maya, recently became parents to their first son, Victor. It’s why Schauffele elected not to play in the Procore Championship along with the rest of the U.S. Ryder Cup team earlier this month. Schauffele noted after he won the 2024 PGA Championship that his wife ‘has the most inside track to my emotions on a day-to-day basis.’
“It’s been awesome. I feel very lucky to have my wife. She’s at home with him right now. I miss him a bunch,” Schauffele said earlier this week. “It’s been cool to sort of learn what it’s like to be a dad, and I look forward to everything that comes with that.”
Scottie Scheffler
Justin Thomas
Thomas and his wife, Jillian Wiesniewski, are both from Kentucky and had their first child in November 2024. Jordan Spieth was the best man at their wedding two years earlier. Thomas revealed after he won the 2017 PGA Championship that he had Wiesniewski, then his girlfriend, changed her flight to later on Sunday because he had a feeling he was going to win his first major.
Russell Henley
One of the U.S. team’s Ryder Cup rookies is married to artist Teil Duncan. ‘She puts steel in my spine,’ Henley told reporters after winning the Arnold Palmer Invitational in March 2025. “She’s tough on me when she needs to be and just super supportive.’
Sam Burns
The 29-year-old and his wife, Caroline, are from the same town (Shreveport, Louisiana). She once revealed to WJCL News in Savannah, Georgia, that she was Burns’ first Valentine as a 5-year-old. The two went to different high schools and didn’t start dating until each attended LSU. Burns said he proposed on the way to dinner one night while he was playing in the 2019 RBC Heritage. The couple welcomed their first child, a son named Bear, in 2024.
Patrick Cantlay
After being in the middle of a lot of drama at the 2023 Ryder Cup, Cantlay married his wife, Nikki Guidish, in Rome the day after the event ended. Justin Thomas and LPGA star Nelly Korda were among those in attendance.
Collin Morikawa
Morikawa and his wife, Katherine, met while he was playing college golf for California and she was playing golf at Pepperdine. She ran in the 2024 NYC Marathon after being inspired to start running while reading the book, ‘Can’t Hurt Me,’ by runner and author David Goggins, according to the New York Post. The couple got married in November 2022.
J.J. Spaun
Spaun won the 2025 U.S. Open on Father’s Day with his wife, Melody, and their children there to celebrate. They’ve been married since 2019, but their first encounter after meeting through mutual friends didn’t go so smoothly.
‘I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m a pro golfer.’ Because I thought I was cool,’ Spaun recounted in 2023. ‘But she’s like, ‘I don’t even know. What does that mean? Like, does that mean you’re like rich or something?’ I was like, ‘No.’ And she’s like, ‘I don’t really care.’ And I was like, ‘All right.’
‘And we went like mini golfing or something and she’s like, ‘This is lame.”
Harris English
The 36-year-old making his second-consecutive Ryder Cup appearance married his wife, Helen Marie, in 2017. They both attended the University of Georgia. When English won the 2025 Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in January, he savored the moment celebrating on the 18th green with his wife and 1-year-old, Emilia, when he won the tournament.
“I’ve been seeing over the years of people’s families coming out on 18 green and their children coming out to see them win,’ English said. ‘I’m so happy that she was there to see it. I have no idea if I’m going to win again or when I’m going to win again, but we’ll have those pictures for a lifetime.”
Ben Griffin
This 29-year-old Ryder Cup rookie got engaged to Dana Myeroff in July 2024 and they’re slated to get married in December, according to an Instagram post by Myeroff.
Cameron Young
The captain’s pick and Ryder Cup rookie is married to Kelsey Dalition. Their families knew one another growing up outside New York. Young told Golfweek in 2021 he played hockey for Dalition’s father and with her brother.
“They’re not a golf family at all so Kelsey is kind of still learning the ropes,’ Young said. ‘It’s actually great for me, because the last thing I want to do when I get home is answer questions like, ‘Why’d you pull a 9-iron on 16?’ That would make my head explode, so that’s been a blessing.”
Europe Ryder Cup WAGs
Rory McIlroy
The 2025 Masters champion has been married to his wife, Erica Stoll, since 2017. They met while Stoll was working for the PGA of America at the 2012 Ryder Cup at Medinah. ‘Erica that week was always the one that was checking us in and out. She was there at transportation, so she was always in the car park over there,’ McIlroy told Golf Channel in 2019. McIlroy filed for divorce in May 2024, but the couple eventually reconciled. They have a daughter, Poppy.
Jon Rahm
The 30-year-old Spanish LIV Golf star is married to Kelley Cahill Rahm, a former Arizona State track and field athlete. Rahm played college golf for the Sun Devils. The couple have three kids together. Kelley told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 2018 that she and Rahm met at a Halloween party as Arizona State freshmen. Rahm wore a SWAT team uniform, and she was dressed as a referee.
Matt Fitzpatrick
The 2022 U.S. Open champion will compete in his fourth Ryder Cup appearance for Europe, but his first as a married man. He and his wife, Katherine, got engaged in September 2023 after the Ryder Cup in Italy. Katherine was the runner-up in the 2014 Miss New Jersey pageant and revealed on Instagram earlier this year that she writes messages like ‘MF is cute’ and ‘I love you’ in bright red marker on his golf balls.
Tyrrell Hatton
The English LIV Golf star had several near-misses at majors this year, but nothing like his 2021 wedding day with wife, Emily Braisher. Hatton revealed that the driver got lost and the couple showed up 30 minutes late for their COVID-19 impacted ceremony in Asheville, North Carolina. Braisher, who previously wrote the ‘Wife on Tour’ blog, also famously interrupted Hatton in the middle of his backswing when she closed a port-o-potty door too loudly at a DP World Tour event in Italy.
Justin Rose
The 45-year-old PGA Tour veteran is the oldest golfer representing Europe this year, and he also appears to have the longest marriage. Rose and his wife, Kate Phillips, have been married since 2006. She notably was shown embracing Rory McIlory after he won the 2025 Masters while paired with her husband for the final round. The couple met when Kate worked at IMG while it was representing Rose at the time. She also served as caddie for Rose at the Indonesian Masters on their wedding anniversary in 2017. They founded the Kate and Justin Rose Foundation in 2009 that helps children living in poverty in Central Florida.
Sepp Straka
The 32-year-old Austrian met his wife, Paige, while he was a golfer at the University of Georgia and Paige was a student at Auburn. Straka missed the BMW PGA Championship in England that the rest of Europe’s Ryder Cup team played in earlier this month because he and his wife recently had their second child prematurely, according to Europe team captain Luke Donald. Straka didn’t want to be too far from home and his wife is not in New York this week.
Tommy Fleetwood
The 34-year-old Englishman who finally broke through and won his first PGA Tour event to close out the 2025 FedEx Cup playoffs is married to Clare Craig. She also serves as his manager. There is a 23-year age gap between the two and Craig initially turned down Fleetwood’s initial attempts to start a romantic relationship because of that dynamic. Craig is 57 years old.
Ludvig Åberg
This rising PGA Tour star brought his girlfriend, OIivia Peet, to this year’s Ryder Cup festivities. Peet is a Manchester, England native who played college tennis at Texas Tech. Åberg, 25, played college golf at Texas Tech.
Shane Lowry
The 38-year-old Irish golfer married his wife, Wendy, in 2016. She is a former hospital nurse in Dublin. The couple met in 2012 and Wendy Lowry once shared a photo of their first night out together.
“There were plenty of times I have been crying myself to sleep or wondering am I able to keep going but when you have a good strong woman behind you it makes it easier,” Shane Lowry told the Irish Independent in 2019. “I owe a lot to her.”
Viktor Hovland
The 28-year-old appears to be the lone single member of Europe’s team.
Robert MacIntyre
The 29-year-old lefty burst onto the international scene with his performance two years ago at the Ryder Cup and he had girlfriend, Shannon Hartley, with him at this year’s Ryder Cup gala. Hartley came with MacIntyre to the United States the past two years when he became a PGA Tour regular following his successful Ryder Cup debut.
Rasmus Højgaard
The 24-year-old Ryder Cup rookie was accompanied by his girlfriend, Julie Sander Danielsen, at the Ryder Cup gala. Højgaard makes frequent appearances on Danielsen’s Instagram page.