It was a rough first day of the Ryder Cup for the Americans, as they fell behind by three points after Friday foursomes and four-balls at Bethpage Black, but there’s still plenty of golf to be played.
As the action heats up this weekend, expect plenty of camera shots of the players’ better halves, their wives and girlfriends.
Not sure who’s who? Thanks to USA Today, here’s a breakdown of what to know about the wives and girlfriends for everyAmerican golfer participating in the 2025 Ryder Cup:
Ryder Cup WAGS 2025: Wives and girlfriends of 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 has 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
The family of the world’s No. 1 golfer has become a familiar sight on golf broadcasts in recent years, given all the tournaments Scheffler won. His wife, Meredith, and 1-year-old son, Bennett, have become stars in their own right for golf fans. Scheffler and his wife went to the same high school in the Dallas suburbs, but didn’t begin their relationship until they attended the University of Texas together.
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, change 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 that 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.”
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