"Ryan Fox & A Sportsgasm Weekend"
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How did Ryan Fox make history winning the British Open and what changed for him afterward?
Ryan Fox has done it! With a 40 at the last! New Zealand has another major champion!
How long does this go for? I don't know. I clapped for a while. Hang on now. Something important's going on. How long is that? What a morning, though. What a morning. I woke up just to catch the last bit where he got given the claret jug. He's such a legend, Ryan Fox. Like I was saying to you guys earlier, he looks like one of us. He addresses the ball like one of us. He obviously hits it like no one else. But he also plays at pace, similar to us, because he plays like he's in trouble at home. Yeah, he plays like he's got a text on his phone saying, you said you would be home two hours ago. You said you were only playing nine. Oh, the boys are playing 18, so now you're also going to do 18? It has that exact vibe about it, and you love to see it.
The difference is he's coming home with $5.5 million.
Is that the prize money?
Whereas you're coming home with a low-range DUI. Allegedly. Allegedly. He's such a good bastard. It couldn't have happened to a better New Zealander than Ryan Fox. I love how he's also morphed the motor into being an integral part of his game. He's like, no, no, I actually have... have to have it. If I lose weight, I wouldn't be able to hit it as far. And you see it when he swings it into his shot. It's amazing. Yeah, because if he lost lots of weight, I think it would change his swing dramatically. He's got no choice but to eat beef and drink red wine.
There's no other choice.
Seems to be a fair bit of it tonight too. Yeah, absolutely. Well deserved. Ryan Fox, he joins Sir Bob Charles, Michael Campbell and Lydia Coe as major champions. Obviously, Bob Charles was the last New Zealander to win this one in about 1963. It's a pretty exclusive club. Like it's one, if you're going to win anything, I mean, what a way to do it and what a tournament to win. And he gets a five-year exemption on all the majors and he can play. Oh, does he? Yeah. And he can play the Open Championship until he's 55. Which is. Oh. There is those things. I remember when he won whatever he won the last time.
Canadian.
That was like the big ticket was that it meant he was exempt for a while and just that breather of like, I'm not constantly chasing my next contract down. And speaking of which, should we talk about January, G-Lane? Yeah. And that, I think, is why he was able to win this one because we talked to him before and he said that he'd sort of remodeled his game to basically go into every tournament and go, I either win this or I lose it. So he's going for absolutely everything and he set it up for exactly that. And it paid off here because he doesn't have to worry about making cuts or whatever. He's just like, I'm going to go out there and try and win this thing. Which, again, is the most one of us thing ever.
It's like, you know, when you've got a shot between two trees, you're like, I could shoot straight for the green. I could lay it up over there easy. But no, I'm going to pump it through the middle. I mean, I hit the tree, but obviously he wins the British Open. Absolutely. And Link's course is his favoured course as well. He plays a lot of it in New Zealand. Obviously, he's out at Te Arau Links, Sandbase. The weather looked amazing in England. I still don't really know what a lynx course is. I asked Carl Tiley from the TAB, who's a mad golfer, I said, firstly, no trees, which you can understand. Sand-based, so it gets very dry and it rolls and runs on a lot. Isn't it also a water-based component of it where it's got to be beside water?
I can explain that part. So it's the land that links the land to the sea. And here's where bunkers come from, fellas. Settle in for story time. It's where sheep, when they need a bit of respite from the wind, they'll start rooting around in the side of the hill there and then it'll erode away and then they can sleep in the nook there. And then as the wind takes more of that away, it creates bunkers. I'm definitely going to say bunkers are from a little thing called World War II. They predate them.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
How did Ryan Fox make history winning the British Open and what changed for him afterward?
0:05–6:38
2
What is a links course and why did it suit Ryan Fox at the Open?
6:38–16:06
3
How did the hosts react to the Chasing The Fox controversy and viral bunker shots?
16:06–30:02
4
What happened at Eden Park during the All Blacks vs Ireland match and why was the TMO criticised?
30:02–53:16
5
What is 'mana munching' and how did influencers behave around the All Blacks?
53:16–1:08:28