How well do you know the talented pro golfer Michelle Wie West? Who is her husband and what do you know about her personal life outside the golf course? Let’s dive into these details.
Basket executive and tycoon, Jonnie West is Michelle Wie husband and they both tied the knot in August 2019 at a private home in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Both Michelle Wie and Jonnie West have a love and passion for sports in common, among several other things. Michelle Wie West is a multiple award winner on the LPGA Tour and her career hasn’t been as spectacular as one would imagine.
Embracing the game of golf at the early age of 10, some quarters regard her as one female golfer that has failed to live up to the hype. Becoming the youngest player to qualify for a USGA Championship, Michelle Wie won her first title at age 13, the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links, and not many wins to her name ever since.
She has had her fair share of the ups and downs in the life of a professional female golfer and has learned to bounce back stronger and better through the hurt and the pains.
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Michelle Wie sustained an injury and underwent surgery in October 2018 to repair an avulsion fracture, bone chips, and nerve entrapment in her right hand. This led to a hiatus from golf for two years and she had considered retirement in the midst of the circumstance.
While she was considering retiring before she became pregnant in 2019 and she was off the course for a larger part of the 2019 LPGA season. In March 2019, she announced her engagement to Jonnie West, who later became her husband.
Michelle Wie husband, Jonnie West is the Director of Basketball Operations for the Golden State Warriors and the son of NBA legend, Jerry West.
Profile of Michelle Wie West
Born October 1989 in Honolulu, Hawai, Michelle Wie West is the sole child of South Korean parents who emigrated to the U.S in the 80s.
She held the record of the youngest golfer ever to qualify for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship at age 10 until Allisen Corpuz broke the record. At age 11, she won the oldest and most prestigious women’s amateur tournament in Hawaii – The Jennie K. Wilson Women’s Invitations.
Wie West made it to the Takefuji Classic making her the youngest player to qualify for an LPGA event in 2002. Though she didn’t make the cut, she put up a stellar performance for a youngster.
In June 2003, she became the youngest person ever, male or female, to win a USGA adult event. In the same year, Wie West also emerged as the youngest player to make an LPGA cut.
She competed at the 2004 Sony Open in Hawaii, becoming the fourth and youngest female to play a PGA Tour event. Though she exited the event with a low score of 68, it served as a boost to perform better at more PGA Tours.
Michelle Wie West won her first pro tournament in 2009 at the age of 20, then three more before she won the U.S. Open at Pinehurst in 2014. But she has only won the HSBC Women’s World Championship in 2018 since then before her injury.
The impenetrable determination and discipline that won her five LPGA titles, including the major 2014 U.S. Open, was diffused by injury, marriage, and motherhood within the two years of hiatus from 2018.
Michelle Wie and her husband, Jonnie West had their daughter, Makenna Kamalei Yoona West, in June 2020. Propelled by a controversy between her and a sports journalist (1), Wie decided to make a comeback to golf in 2021 with the desire to impress on the world that there’s more she can still offer and to show her daughter that it’s possible to be a superstar mother and a world-class athlete at the same time.
Who is Michelle Wie Husband, Jonnie West?
Jonnie West is a well-known personality who has been in the limelight since birth. He is born to NBA legend father, Jerry West, and superstar actress mother, Karen West.
West didn’t appear out of the blue because he is Michelle Wie husband or becoming famous due to his professional basketball days, but his father’s legacy has predominantly made him relevant while making a good name for himself.
His father, Jerry West played basketball with the Lakers for 15 years and won the 1972 NBA Championship. He coached the Lakers from 1976 to 1979 and served as an executive with the Warriors from 2011 to 2017. In 2004 Jerry won the NBA’s executive of the year.
Growing up, Jonnie played basketball like his father. At West Virginia University he played on the basketball team but did not go any further up the professional ladder. Instead, he furthered his education by getting a bachelor’s degree in sports management and an MBA in business administration.
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Born in May 1988 in Santa Monica, California, United States, Jonnie West is the Director of Basketball Operations for the Golden State Warriors NBA team since 2018. Before gaining this position, he was the Associate General Manager at the Santa Cruz Warriors.
As Michelle Wie husband, West has been supportive of his wife’s career and is a pillar for his family, while protecting the reputation his parents have built over the years.
Final Thoughts
Returning to the course at 32, the world of golf can only be expectant of what Michelle Wie West has to offer.
She kicked off 2022 by signing with Excel Sports Management and revealed how the arrival of daughter Mackena has altered her game. Wie has also committed to playing more tournaments starting with the Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions in January 2022.
Since 2021 when she finished with T-46 at the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, Hilton Grand is her first LPGA Tour, and if marriage and motherhood wouldn’t come in between, Wie still has some years ahead to proof that she’s worth all the hype and not an overrated LPGA golfer.
