They found a fairway to heaven! Professional golfer Collin Morikawa has a special support system in his wife, Katherine Zhu.
“She’s been amazing. I’m so lucky to have her,” Morikawa gushed during an August 2020 interview with the Golf Channel’s “Golf Central” broadcast. “Kat’s been by my side through it all. She would hate me if I didn’t say this, but I didn’t start winning in college until she showed up in my life.”
The PGA Tour champ and Zhu, who played collegiate golf at Pepperdine University, were introduced by a mutual friend in 2017 nearly two years before Morikawa turned pro.
“[One of my competitors and I] were just being college girls and talking about life [during a summer tournament]. She said, ‘Are you seeing anyone? Let me introduce you to someone,’” Zhu recalled to the New York Post in September 2020. “I said, ‘Sure,’ but I didn’t really think she would actually do it.”
Sure enough, the couple’s pal — who played golf with Morikawa at the University of California, Berkeley — showed him photos from Zhu’s Instagram to pique his interest. The pair’s romance continued to develop while they finished up their college degrees. After three years of dating, the Olympian proposed to Zhu in November 2021. Morikawa and Zhu tied the knot the next year.
Scroll below for Morikawa and Zhu’s complete relationship timeline:
