Who are the wives and girlfriends of the Team Europe golfers at the 2025 Ryder Cup?

The 2025 Ryder Cup gets underway this Friday and the gaze of the golfing world will be firmly fixed on the Black Course of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale, New York as Team USA and Team Europe do battle.

The 12 players in the European team will be passionately supported by their partners as Luke Donald team will be looking to carry on their winning ways after their 2023 win over Team USA in Rome.

Europe now hold a 12-9 advantage since 1979 and aims to retain the trophy won in 2023.

Jon Rahm & Kelley Cahill

The year Rahm graduated from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2016, he met his future wife, Kelley Cahill, a biologist and former javelin thrower, at a college dance. “I have many memories from this year, but the most important was starting my relationship with Kelley,” he wrote on social media at the time. Cahill was a member of the Arizona State University’s track and field team. Rahm’s wife threw javelin for ASU and played tennis in high school.

Rory McIlroy & Erica Stoll

The 37-year-old and McIlroy first connected in 2012 during the Ryder Cup. Stoll, working as a PGA transport official, met Mcllroy as she helped him get to his tee time on time as he overslept due to zone differences. Stoll got him a police escort and he was able to compete.

Their friendship blossomed into romance, leading to an engagement in 2015 and a wedding two years later. McIlroy and Stoll tied the knot at Ashford Castle in Ireland, surrounded by friends and family under incredible landscapes. In 2020 the couple welcomed their first child, a daughter named Poppy Kennedy.

Justin Rose & Kate Philips

The couple met in the early 2000s, when Kate was an assistant at IMG, the agency that represented Justin. She’s from Chiswick in West London, studied French and Italian at the University of Sussex, and once trained in gymnastics.

Married since 2006, she’s not only supported his career on the road and at home, but helped shape it – and even caddied for him once on their wedding anniversary.

Tyrrell Hatton & Emily Braisher

Tyrrell Hatton is married to Emily Braisher‚and they married in 2021. Emily Braisher writes a blog called “Wife On Tour” chronicling their travels as they follow Hatton’s professional golf career.The couple is from Buckinghamshire, England, and also maintains a home in Orlando, Florida.

Shane Lowry & Wendy Honner

The couple got married in 2016 in New York City, and now live in South Florida. However, they visit Lowry’s native Ireland frequently with the couple having two daughters.

Tommy Fleetwood & Claire Craig

Tommy Fleetwood met his wife, Clare Craig via his brother Joe, who worked with her at Hambric Sports Management. Clare became Fleetwood’s agent in 2015, and after working together and developing a friendship, their professional relationship turned romantic, leading to their marriage in 2017.

Matt Fitzpatrick & Katherine Gaal

Matt Fitzpatrick and Katherine Gaal met sometime after his 2022 U.S. Open win, with their relationship becoming public in January 2023 on Instagram, after which Gaal began supporting Fitzpatrick at golf events. The exact timing of their first meeting remains unclear, but by the end of 2023, they were engaged, and they were married in 2024.

Viktor Hovland

The Norwegian does not have a wife; he is not married, and current information suggests that the 28-year-old is single.

Ludvig Aberg & Olivia Peet

Ludvig Aberg’s girlfriend,Olivia Peet, is a former Division 1 tennis player from Texas Tech University, and the couple’s relationship has quietly become one of the more glamorous pairings on the PGA Tour. They met in Lubbock, Texas, while both were student-athletes – Aberg spending time on the course with Peet on court.

Sepp Straka & Paige Dean

Straka’s wife, Paige, has supported him as he has made his mark on the PGA Tour as a three-time winner and consistent contender.

The couple first met in 2017 at a college football game and the two were married on September 27th 2021, in Shoal Creek, Alabama.

Robert MacIntyre & Shannon Hartley

Very little is known about partner Hartley as the pair choose to keep as much of their relationship under wraps as possible. However, it is thought that they have been dating since at least midway through 2023 - when the first picture of Hartley appeared on MacIntyre’s Instagram profile.

Rasmus Hojgaard & Julie Sander Danielsen

The couple have largely kept their private lives private, with Danielsen, once active on Instagram, having not posted on the platform in more than two years.

The pair appear to be in a long-term relationship, with Hojgaard first appearing on Danielsen’s Instagram feed back in 2019. Their most high-profile public appearance together came when they were photographed celebrating Hojgaard’s victory at Made In Himmerland, now known as the Danish Golf Championship, in 2023.

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