Five-time LPGA Tour winner Michelle Wie West announced that she is expecting her second child on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" on Monday evening.
The 34-year-old appeared as a guest on the show to promote both this week’s Mizuho Americas Open, for which Wie West serves as tournament host, and a documentary that NBC has created about her titled, “Dream Big: The Michelle Wie Story” that will air on Saturday, May 18.
.@MichelleWieWest is expecting a baby boy! #FallonTonight pic.twitter.com/vYoP931dud
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) May 14, 2024
Wie West had her first child, Makenna Kamalei Yoona West, on June 19, 2020, and is now expecting her first son with her husband, Jonnie West. Makenna has been incredibly excited about having a brother on the way, and Wie West shared that the almost 4-year-old was “telling everyone” before Michelle and Jonnie had the opportunity to do so themselves, even cluing in her teachers and friends at school to her family’s happy news.
Wie West retired from professional golf after the 2023 U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links. One of her five career LPGA Tour victories was a major championship – the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open at Pinehurst – and she amassed $6,825,282 in career earnings after joining the organization in 2009.
The Hawaii native won the 2014 Rolex ANNIKA Major Award and was a five-time member of the U.S. Solheim Cup team, representing the Red, White and Blue in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2017.
As the sun set on her playing career, Wie West involved herself in many off-course projects, including but not limited to investing, podcasting, jewelry designing and tournament hosting, the last of which she’ll be doing again this week as Wie West works with Mizuho Americas to put on another world-class event at Liberty National Golf Club.
The second edition of the Mizuho Americas Open is set to begin on Thursday, May 16 in Jersey City, N.J.
Wie West’s fellow Stanford University alum Rose Zhang, who won the inaugural Mizuho Americas Open in her professional debut in 2023, will be looking to successfully defend a title for the first time in her young career this week in the Garden State, coming to Liberty National fresh off capturing her second Tour title last week at the Cognizant Founders Cup in Clifton, N.J.
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