A No. 1 golfer with his No. 1 girl! Jon Rahm and Kelley Cahill went from friends to college sweethearts to parents of two.
The professional golfer met Cahill while they were both attending Arizona State University and after starting as friends, they began dating in 2016. Two years later, he proposed.
“For our relationship, we started dating in college. We moved in after six months, and we’ve been living together for two years already,” he revealed during an interview with Golf Channel in August 2018. “I think we acted and both felt like a married couple already. We felt like being official in that sense, so it really hasn’t changed much in that sense.”
When asked whether he was anxious to get down on one knee, he added: “If there’s ever a doubt that she’s going to say no, I understand the nervousness. But in my case, I was 100 percent sure she was going to say yes.”
The twosome subsequently planned for their nuptials to be in his native Spain.
“It’s going to be a Catholic wedding, a church that I basically grew up going to with my grandma, and it’s a really special place for all people of the City of Bilbao,” Rahm told reporters at the Hero World Challenge in December 2019, one week before they wed. “And I think when I see those doors open and see her walking down the aisle for the first time, I think it’s going to be what I’m looking forward to the most, that first moment of seeing her walk down the aisle.”
Less than one year later, Cahill was pregnant with their first child. Son Kepa was born in April 2021. That same year, Rahm made history as the first Spanish golfer to win the U.S. Open in June.
“I’m a big believer in karma. After what happened a couple weeks ago, I stayed really positive knowing big things were going to happen,” Rahm told reporters at the time, referring to being forced to drop out of the Memorial mid-tournament because he tested positive for COVID-19 weeks prior. “I didn’t know what, but we were coming to a place where I got my first win and it’s a very special place for me and my family. I just felt like the stars were aligning.”
The couple expanded their family again when son Eneko was born in August 2022.
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