{"id":4128,"date":"2026-05-26T03:53:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/4128\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T03:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:53:41","slug":"who-is-justin-roses-wife-kate-phillips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/4128\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Justin Rose\u2019s Wife Kate Phillips?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the Masters, Justin Rose is hoping to finally win; he has finished runner-up at the famed tournament three times. Despite the disappointing ending at last year\u2019s Masters, it was a remarkable run for the English golfer\u2014and cheering him on, and by his side for over two decades, has been his wife Kate Rose (n\u00e9e Phillips).<\/p>\n

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Kate at the Ryder Cup opening ceremony.<\/p>\n

In fact, Justin even plays with no. 99 golf balls as a nod to Kate, because 9 is her favorite number. He made it 99 to \u201cdouble the luck,\u201d according to Golf Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Justin and Kate Rose in 2023.<\/p>\n

Here, get to know Justin Rose\u2019s wife Kate:<\/p>\n

She\u2019s from London.<\/p>\n

Kate grew up in Chiswick, London, attending the Godolphin and Latymer Upper School for Girls. She went on to college at the University of Sussex, graduating in 1998 with a bachelor of arts in French and Italian. While at university, she was part of the Sussex Hockey Ladies Team and the University Royal Naval Unit.<\/p>\n

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Kate pictured in 2018.<\/p>\n

Kate met Justin in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n

According to People, \u201cJustin and Kate first met while she was an assistant at IMG, the company representing him at the time. Due to her work, she traveled to tournaments Justin was playing in and the future couple eventually met and started dating.\u201d<\/p>\n

They tied the knot in December 2006.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s a mom of two.<\/p>\n

Justin and Kate have two children: son Leo, born in 2009, and daughter Charlotte, who goes by Lottie, born in 2012. Despite living abroad, Kate is insistent that her children grow up close to their English culture.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m on America\u2019s doorstep, I get to dip my toe in and play the tour very easily, but there\u2019s a flight back to London every day,\u201d Justin said<\/a> in 2017. \u201cKate is determined that our children feel English, that this should be who they are. She adores London, as a Chiswick girl born and bred. We are here for eight weeks this summer \u2014 it will be exciting for us to be a little less nomadic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kate co-founded a foundation with her husband.\"WimbledonJordan Pettitt – PA Images\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

The couple at Wimbledon 2025.<\/p>\n

The Roses launched the Kate and Justin Rose Foundation in 2009 to support children living in poverty in Central Florida. \u201cShe gets top billing\u2014she\u2019s got a heart of gold,\u201d Justin said<\/a> of his wife\u2019s philanthropy. Kate was also a board director of the PGA Tour Wives Association for four years, from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n

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Emily Burack (she\/her) is the Deputy Digital Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, celebrities, the royals, and a wide range of other topics. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma, a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2 min read At the Masters, Justin Rose is hoping to finally win; he has finished runner-up at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1861,1854,2817,1856,1863,1146,1855,2818,2816,1860],"class_list":["post-4128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-justin-rose","tag-collection-golf-news","tag-content-type-news-explainer","tag-contentid-a9c1cac3-92ce-43be-aa97-d591feab8b23","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-justin-rose","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-2","tag-shorttitle-meet-justin-roses-wife-kate-phillips","tag-subsection-sporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}