A kiss walking off the 18th, then a five-word tease to the cameras. Here is who Mikayla Demaiter is, how fans cracked it, and what he says is coming.
At LIV Golf Indianapolis on 23 August he kissed his girlfriend on the way off, then told the broadcast there was "something fun coming." He tied for third.
She is a 26-year-old Canadian model and content creator from Ontario. Before any of the cameras found her, she played the hardest job on the ice.
Demaiter kept goal for the Bluewater Hawks in Ontario's Provincial Women's Hockey League, making 428 saves across 20 games in the 2018-19 season.
A knee injury in June 2019 forced her out of hockey at 19. She had spent her teens in the crease, and the career change came almost immediately after.
Modelling and social media built her a reach most pro athletes never touch: more than 3 million followers on Instagram and about 2.7 million on TikTok.
Fans spotted her at LIV Golf New York at Trump National Bedminster in early August, wearing a Crushers GC cap. Crushers is the team DeChambeau captains.
Us Weekly reported the two were dating and "very happy," calling the romance fairly new. TMZ confirmed it separately. Neither of them has announced it.
DeChambeau, 32, is a Modesto-born physics major out of SMU, nicknamed the Scientist. His irons are all built to the same length: 37.5 inches, every club.
He won at Winged Foot in 2020 by six shots, then edged Rory McIlroy by one at Pinehurst in 2024 with a 55-yard bunker shot he called the best of his life.
Five LIV titles, roughly 2.5 million YouTube subscribers and now a teased announcement. Whatever "something fun" means, the golf world is paying attention.