{"id":173693,"date":"2025-09-27T19:41:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173693\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T19:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T19:41:07","slug":"jake-knapp-grieving-death-of-girlfriend-makena-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/173693\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Knapp grieving death of girlfriend Makena White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FARMINGDALE, N.Y. &#8212; Jake Knapp is grieving the death of his girlfriend of two years, Makena White, describing her as selfless toward others and filled with energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A friend of White posted on her Instagram page that she died earlier this week. The update did not mention how she died, and Knapp chose not to share details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\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 Knapp said in comments his manager sent to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Knapp, who played at UCLA, won in his rookie season on the PGA Tour last year at the Mexico Open. He shot 59 earlier this year at the Cognizant Classic. White posted a picture of them from that tournament, noting last month it was their second year together of \u201cwatching you live out your dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMakena was such a thoughtful person whose selflessness toward others is something I will always appreciate,\u201d Knapp said. \u201cWe shared so many unforgettable memories together and now that she\u2019s no longer with us, it\u2019s a tough reality to comprehend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe had an incredible family, great friends, and her fun, outgoing energy will be missed by all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FARMINGDALE, N.Y. &#8212; Jake Knapp is grieving the death of his girlfriend of two years, Makena White, describing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-173693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}