Rickie Fowler

Rickie Fowler has been dating amateur athlete and fitness model Allison Stokke since 2017. He announced his engagement to Stokke through an Instagram post in June 2018.

Rick Yutaka Fowler was born on December 13, 1988 in Murrieta, California to Rod Fowler, owner of a trucking company, and Lynn Fowler. Both his parents, as well as his sister Taylor, participate in bike riding games.

He followed his father to be a dirt racer, but following an accident while in high school, he gave up riding and learnt golf from his grandfather. He won the Western Junior in the summer of 2005 and went on to help the US win the 2007 Walker Cup.

During his senior year at Murrieta Valley High School, he won the SW League Final and helped his team in the state final in 2007. In October that year, while attending Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, he won the Fighting Illini Invitational by one stroke to register his first collegiate victory.

He won the Sunnehanna Amateur in June 2007, followed by the Players Amateur the next month, and defended his Sunnehanna Amateur title in 2008. In 2009, he once again helped the US defend the Walker Cup by winning all four matches, and finished third in the Sunnehanna Amateur.

Rickie Fowler made his professional debut in August 2009, playing in the Albertsons Boise Open on the Nationwide Tour. That month, he finished runner up in the Nationwide Children's Hospital Invitational.

In October 2009, he participated in the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, his first professional PGA Tour event, finishing tied for 7th. The same month, he played at the Frys.com Open at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, in which he finished tied for second.

In November 2009, he got another T2 finish during an unofficial money event on the PGA Tour, the Pebble Beach Invitational, in which he was two shots behind the winner. In December, he finished T15 in qualifying school and earned his PGA Tour card for 2010.

He finished as the runner-up with a 15-under-par score at the Waste Management Phoenix Open at the TPC of Scottsdale course in February 2010. In June that year, he entered the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking with another runner-up finish at the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio.

In October 2010, he became the youngest Ryder Cup player in the U.S. and second youngest overall after European golfer Sergio García. Despite making the mistake of forfeiting a hole in the first match-day, he made an impressive comeback on the final day, and subsequently bagged the 'Rookie of the Year' award.

Rickie Fowler became the third player, after Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, to have top-5 finishes in all four majors in one calendar year, even though he was the first not to win any. With his 12th tour runner-up finish at the OHL Classic, he became the 27th golfer in PGA Tour history to win $30,000,000 in Tour earnings.

He received the 'Ben Hogan Award' in 2008 and the 'Rookie of the Year' award in 2010.