{"id":2054297,"date":"2025-09-27T16:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2054297"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T16:24:43","slug":"pro-golfer-jake-knapp-breaks-silence-surrounding-girlfriend-makena-whites-mysterious-death-globe-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/pro-golfer-jake-knapp-breaks-silence-surrounding-girlfriend-makena-whites-mysterious-death-globe-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Golfer Jake Knapp Breaks Silence Surrounding Girlfriend Makena White\u2019s Mysterious Death \u2013 Globe Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11895\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1290px;\"><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gray Siegel\/Cal Sport Media\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency; Makena White\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One day after the golf world was shocked by the news of his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/golf-world-rocked-by-news-pga-star-jake-knapps-girlfriend-makena-white-28-dies-ahead-of-ryder-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">girlfriend Makena White\u2019s death<\/a> at age 28, PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp has broken his silence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMakena was such a thoughtful person whose selflessness toward others is something I will always appreciate,\u201d Knapp, 31, told the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/golf\/article-15138979\/Jake-Knapp-girlfriend-Makena-Whites-death-golf.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Daily Mail<\/em><\/a>. \u201cWe shared so many unforgettable memories together and now that she\u2019s no longer with us, it\u2019s a tough reality to comprehend. She had an incredible family, great friends, and her fun, outgoing energy will be missed by all of us. It\u2019s an understatement to say how hard all of this is to process for everyone who knew Mak, especially her family and friends, who deserve privacy and respect during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White\u2019s death was confirmed Friday via a post on her own <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DPEioT8jv6M\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram page<\/a>, written by a friend, though no information about her cause of death was revealed. A Canada native, White worked in surgical sales and began dating Knapp in 2023. She was there to support him when he snagged his first PGA Tour win at the Mexico Open in 2024, and from that time on, their relationship was public, with White often sharing pictures of the couple with sweet messages on social media.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11890\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1330px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11890 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3509.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1320\" height=\"859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3509.jpg 1320w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3509-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3509-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/IMG_3509-768x500.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1320px) 100vw, 1320px\"\/><figcaption class=\"mtSubImg\"><span class=\"wp-desc-text\"\/> <span class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Makena White\/Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Most recently, she posted a carousel of snaps of the pair on August 11, writing, \u201cYear 2 of first fairway hugs &amp; watching you live out your dreams. Second season in the books \u2014 forever grateful to be on this walk with you, here\u2019s to many many many more! I looooove you sweet boy, you make it so dang easy to be proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source globemagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gray Siegel\/Cal Sport Media\/Newscom\/The Mega Agency; Makena White\/Instagram One day after the golf world was shocked by the news of his girlfriend Makena White\u2019s death at age 28, PGA Tour winner Jake Knapp has broken his silence. \u201cMakena was such a thoughtful person whose selflessness toward others is something I will always appreciate,\u201d Knapp, 31, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2054298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[21848],"class_list":["post-2054297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758990282_Pro-Golfer-Jake-Knapp-Breaks-Silence-Surrounding-Girlfriend-Makena-Whites.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}