Kevin McAlpine, Lexi Thompson’s former caddie and Anna Nordqvist’s ex-husband, all of the sudden handed away this week. He was 39.

“We can confirm that Kevin has passed away in America,” Hamish McAlpine, Kevin’s father and a former football star, told The Courier. “We are completely in the dark about what has happened. It is true that he has been unwell but we believed he was on the mend.

“There is to be an autopsy and at the moment there is very little we can say. We really don’t want to talk about this at this stage. As a family, we are completely devastated. You can imagine how we are feeling.”

McAlpine gained the 2006 Scottish Amateur and performed school golf at Colorado State University. He later ditched an expert golf profession and labored in gross sales, however then returned to the game as a caddie. He landed on Thompson’s bag in 2017 and so they labored collectively for 18 months.

McAlpine married Nordqvist, a three-time main champion, in 2022. However, Nordqvist introduced in August that they had been going via a divorce.

Nordqvist shot a gap 69 at this week’s BMW Ladies Championship in Korea however then withdrew from the occasion to fly again to the U.S. following McAlpine’s passing.

McAlpine additionally looped for Amy Yang and fellow Scot Martin Laird.