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AUGUSTA, GA. — In one of the newer traditions at the Masters — and anywhere else she goes for that matter — there were plenty of eyes on Paulina Gretzky as she wowed galleries while watching her husband Dustin Johnson prepare for the season’s first major.
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The reunion of the world’s best players this week with the fractured golf world coming together for a major, also means Paulina and other famous better halves, including Brooks Koepka’s wife Jena Sims, are back in the limelight after spending the better part of the past year on LIV Golf island.
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The 35-year-old Gretzky turned heads at Wednesday’s Par-3 Contest. In 2023, she caddied for Johnson at the family/Instagram-friendly event, but this year she traded her white caddie jumpsuit for a more form-fitting red number that was more her style.
She will have plenty of time to choose an outfit on Thursday, as Johnson is in the day’s final tee time at the weather-delayed tournament and won’t be hitting the course until 4:30 p.m.
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Earlier this year, Gretzky revealed that her and Johnson received numerous death threats after the golfer’s big-money defection to LIV Golf in 2022.
The daughter of the Great One, Wayne Gretzky, appears on the second season of Netflix’s golf docuseries Full Swing and opened up about a turbulent time in the couple’s lives. She says that she had to “shut it down” and stay away from messages on social media.
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“People sending death threats and awful, awful, awful things,” Gretzky said. “People were aggressive, that’s for sure. But that’s when I shut it down for a little bit. I was like ‘I don’t need to look at this. Everyone has an opinion on it. Fine.’”
Johnson was paid a reported $125 million to jump from the PGA Tour to the Saudi-funded golf outfit, where he is the captain of the 4Aces GC team.
After settling into their new reality, Gretzky said that she’s happier now that she’s not “taking a back seat” to the couple’s “old life” on the PGA Tour, which featured a much more extensive schedule.
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“We have a little bit more time together now since things have changed a little, whereas before, it was like, go go go,” Gretzky said.
“We have more control now of how we do things. That old life that we had, I had to take a backseat, but now it feels like we’re in the front of the plane together flying. It was the right move.”
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