{"id":419694,"date":"2026-01-19T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T17:54:07","slug":"formula-1-driver-alex-albon-announces-engagement-to-golfer-lily-muni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/419694\/","title":{"rendered":"Formula 1 Driver Alex Albon Announces Engagement to Golfer Lily Muni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nFormula 1 driver Alex Albon and professional golfer Lily Muni are engagedThe happy news was announced on Instagram on Jan. 16The couple have been in a relationship since 2019<\/p>\n

Wedding bells are ringing for Alex Albon<\/a> and Lily Muni<\/a>!\n<\/p>\n

The Formula 1 driver, 29, and the professional golfer, 26, announced their engagement on Instagram<\/a> on Friday, Jan. 16, by sharing a sweet post-proposal selfie in which Muni flashed her sparkling new ring.\n<\/p>\n

“I guess we\u2019re stuck with each other now \u2764\ufe0f\ud83d\ude0a,” Albon wrote in the caption of the joint post.\n<\/p>\n

Alex Albon and Lily Muni.<\/p>\n

Alex Albon\/Instagram<\/p>\n

Congratulations flooded the comments section, including well-wishes from fellow drivers Carlos Sainz, Yuki Tsunoda, Franco Colapinto, Daniil Kvyat, and more.\n<\/p>\n

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Albon and Muni started dating in 2019 after they met over social media.\n<\/p>\n

Speaking to\u00a0Golfweek<\/a>\u00a0in 2021, Muni explained that her friends encouraged her to watch the Netflix docuseries\u00a0Drive to Survive<\/a> to help her “see another perspective of a sport that\u2019s under so much pressure” because she was “in a slump” at the time. After binge-watching the show in one day, Muni followed some drivers, including Albon, who happened to be “getting into golf at the same time [she] was getting into his sport” and followed her back.\n<\/p>\n

Alex Albon and Lily Muni in December 2025.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Clive Mason\/Getty\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We started talking on the phone. We were both rookies in 2019 and I thought that was extremely cool,” Muni told the outlet. “Eventually he had an event in the States and afterwards, he and his friend took a little break in LA and that\u2019s how we properly met for the first time.”\n<\/p>\n

From his perspective, Albon told Golfweek<\/a> in 2022, “The first time I picked up a golf club was maybe the beginning of 2019. You could say our interests collided. We met through social media and I was just kind following how she was doing, and she was following how I was doing, and one thing led to another and we met up in LA. It was a week after I had a race in Texas. We played some golf together and that\u2019s how it all got started.”\n<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the same interview, Albon credited his relationship success with Muni to them both being athletes.\n<\/p>\n

“We\u2019re both athletes. It\u2019s a pretty cool place because also, on top of everything, we understand and we get each other,” he said. “We started our sports as rookies, and we\u2018ve gone through tough times together. The highs and lows of being an athlete, I think you can resonate that with any athlete. But it also comes with the space that you need. You need a lot of time to work on yourself, and I think golf is really like that, too. In a weird way, we make our long distance relationship work.”\n<\/p>\n

Alex Albon and Lily Muni in June 2025.<\/p>\n

Jamie McCarthy\/Getty<\/p>\n

Speaking to PEOPLE in 2022<\/a>, Albon said he counts his now-fianc\u00e9e as one of his biggest supporters.\n<\/p>\n

“You need a very strong circle around you. I have a very strong circle,” he said. “Leaning on them, that’s where you get your inner peace, but also your motivation. And of course, there are days when you feel negative and things aren’t going your way, but they’re the ones that keep you in check and boost you up when them moments happen.”<\/p>\n