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:
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Professional Golfer Collin Morikawa and Wife Katherine Zhu: A Timeline of Their Relationship
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:
“Starting another trip around the sun with a new name,” Zhu wrote via Instagram on January 13, teasing that she had officially taken her partner’s last name ahead of her birthday celebrations.
Morikawa jokingly replied: “That’s one long name.”
Morikawa announced he and Zhu were expecting their first baby together after an emotional win at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.
"We just started telling people this week," Morikawa told CBS Sports' Amanda Balionis. "We said what a better way, the best way, to announce it to the world if I was able to come out and win."
The couple welcomed their first baby.
“All that matters,” Morikawa and Zhu captioned an Instagram pic of the newborn’s thumb.

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