Who Is Joel Dahmen's Wife? All About Lona Dahmen

Mar. 15, 2025

Joel Dahmen and Lona Dahmen at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship on March 28, 2021.Photo:Kevin C. Cox/Getty

Kevin C. Cox/Getty

Joel Dahmen and his wife Lona have been married since 2018.

The professional golfer may have won his firstPGA Tourtitle in March 2021 but his wife Lona has been supporting him since 2012, when they met while waiting in line for pizza. Six years after their chance meeting, the pair got married and in 2023, Joel and Lona welcomed their first child.

Since getting together, they’ve launched a foundation and appeared on theNetflixshowFull Swingalongside each other. The couple will be back for the series' third season, which premieres on Feb. 25, 2025.

Joel has also opened up about how they have helped each other succeed.

“We are wildly more successful than my wife and I ever thought that our lives would be. We’re doing well financially," he toldGQin February 2023. “We are building a new house. But we still save a ton of money. We always want to save for the future.”

So who is Joel Dahmen’s wife? Here’s everything to know about Lona Dahmen and her relationship with the professional golfer.

She studied communication design in college

Joel Dahmen and Lona Dahmen.Joel Dahmen Instagram

Joel Dahmen Instagram

According to Lona’sLinkedInprofile, she studied communication design at California State University and received her bachelor’s degree in 2011.

Lona was a member of the Alpha Gamma Delta sorority, and studied overseas at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, for a semester in 2009.

She has had a number of jobs over the years, from working at a golf club as a teenager to being an assistant event coordinator at Citizen Public House for two years while dating Joel.

She met Joel in 2012

On Lona and Joel’swedding website, the couple shared their sweet meet-cute story. In 2012, Joel and Lona met in line at a pizza place in Scottsdale when he offered to buy her a slice if she went up the line faster than him.

Lona gave Joel her number, and he asked her on a date the following week. “The rest is history,” they wrote on the site.

She married Joel in 2018

Joel and Lona got married at the Royal Palms in Phoenix on Dec. 15, 2018.

The golfer paid tribute to Lona on their fourth wedding anniversary in 2022, posting a picture onInstagramof the two holding hands on their wedding day.

“4 years of bliss!" Joel wrote in the caption. “You are truly special. I can’t wait to attempt this parenting thing with you! I love you!”

She had a child with Joel in January 2023

Lona Dahmen and Riggs William Dahmen.Joel Dahmen Instagram

Joel and Lona welcomed a son, Riggs William Dahmen, on Jan. 19, 2023. The Gateway Tour winner announced his wife’s pregnancy in July 2022 with anInstagrampost in which the couple held up ultrasound scans. “It’s actually happening. Pray for us,” he wrote in the caption.

The father-of-one also announced the news of Riggs' birth on thesocial media platformwith a photo of the newborn asleep. “Hello World! Riggs William was born on 1/19 healthy and happy,” Joel wrote in the caption, before sharing that Lona was “unbelievably strong and doing well.”

For Valentine’s Day in 2024, Joel shared a photo onInstagramof Lona and their son smiling together with the caption, “My forever Valentines!”

She appeared onFull Swingwith Joel

Joel starred in the Netflix documentary seriesFull Swingstarting in 2023 and Lona came along for the ride. The fourth episode of the first season, which featured a variety of professional golfers taking part in the PGA Tour, focused on him and Lona.

Joel and Lona returned for season 2 in 2024, which showcased their struggles with balancing the pressures of parenthood and the professional sports world.

“There are moments where I was like, ‘OK I don’t think you are doing well … You are off and now you are dragging everyone else down with you.’ That sounds harsh, but I am not afraid to say something to my husband because it’s our family,” Lona said in the series.

The couple will be back for the third season ofFull Swing, which premieres on Netflix in February 2025.

She’s a food and travel blogger

Lona is a food blogger who shares her cooking and her travels onInstagram. Her bio reads, “I travel, find yummy food along the way, and also create some of my own treats when I’m home!”

In her Instagram highlights, she has posted her travel and food experiences from destinations including Japan, Thailand, Mexico and Ireland.

The flexibility of being an entrepreneur works for Joel and Lona — the professional athlete toldGolf Digestin a 2019 interview that Lona quit her job to travel with him for the South American part of the Korn Ferry Tour.

One of Joel’s friends, Bob Yosaitis, even said it was important for Lona to be there. “You play better when she’s around,” Joel remembered him saying.

She helped encourage Joel back to golf

Joel Dahmen and Lona Dahmen after the the final round of the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship on March 28, 2021.Kevin C. Cox/Getty

In the summer of 2014, after some professional difficulties led Joel to take time off from golf, Lona helped encourage him back to the sport. He toldGOLFin May 2019, “My now-wife gave me $200 to go get a lesson and it kind of kick-started my ’14 and now the rest of my career.”

Three years earlier, Joel spoke toThe Seattle Timesabout the power of Lona’s support.

“She’s been with me at my lowest and my highest," he said. “She is a big reason I am where I am, always supporting me, but also kicking my butt when I need it.”

She has continued to cheer him on ever since, including at the FedEx Cup in November 2024 — a tournament that determined whether he’d be keeping his PGA card.

“I know my wife has been stressed,” Dahmen told thePGA Tourafter he found out he’d be keeping his card. “I have a lot of great people around me and so it’s hard on them, but it’s just because they love me and they care about me.”

She started a foundation with Joel

A year later, Joel and Lona jointly shared a post onInstagramin which they announced that the foundation had donated $10,000 to the Arizona Cancer Foundation for Children.

source: people.com