Meet the Wives and Girlfriends of the Top 33 Golfers
25. Matthew Fitzpatrick & Lydia Cassada
Matthew Fitzpatrick, a 26-year-old English golfer, won the 2015 British Masters for the first time as a professional. Fitzpatrick won his second DP World Tour Championship and first Rolex Series championship in Dubai in December 2020. He met his current girlfriend, Lydia Cassada, at Northwestern University, when they were both students. Cassada now lives in West Palm Beach, where she works as a marketing representative for a travel company, according to Golf Monthly. The couple is frequently seen together at athletic events, and she is regularly accompanying him on tour.
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26. Rory McIlroy & Erica Stoll
Rory McIlroy is a professional golfer from Ireland who participates on the European and PGA Tours. He has spent more than 100 weeks at the top of the Official World Golf Ranking, has won four major championships, and is one of only three golfers to win four major titles by the age of 25. He first created a reputation for himself as an amateur, subsequently becoming the youngest player to earn more than $10 million on both the European and PGA tours. McIlroy met his now-wife Erica Stoll shortly after publicly breaking his engagement to tennis player Caroline Wozniacki in 2014.
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McIlroy and Stoll started dating less than a year later. Before their wedding at Ashford Castle in Ireland in 2017, McIlroy told The Independent, “What I like best about [our relationship] is that we were friends before we became romantically involved. We met when she was working for the PGA of America and renting a condo in Palm Beach, and it was nice to be with someone who wasn’t always saying, ‘Oh, my plane is 30 minutes late!'” Poppy, their daughter, is due to be born in September 2020.
