Ryan Fox's British Open Triumph | The Wisdom & Experience of Robert Craddock (20.07.26)
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Now back to Whiteley. Ryan Fox, champion golfer of the year.
How did Ryan Fox describe his emotions and shots after winning the British Open?
He celebrates. And far away New Zealand celebrates with him. What a finish, what a way to take it. The stuff that dreams are made of. I said to my caddie Dean, I said, we're going to take it on. We're going to try to win and I'll deal with whatever consequences happen. You know, if you had a bad drive and whatever and make bogey. I probably can live with that. I probably had the two best shots of my life. The driver was perfect. I had a great number for 9-iron in there, and I hit that exactly where I wanted to, and I'm not sure how I hit the putt straight, to be honest. Everything was shaking, trembling, whatever. I was just taking a deep breath, hit the putt, and kind of hoping. It went right. It's been a lot going to getting to this point.
It's still very surreal right now that I'm holding the claret jug and I'm 15 years into my professional career and things are still getting better. So I'm pretty happy about that.
What a way to win your first major. Ryan Fox with Birdie at 18. I love these Mondays with Robert Craddock and all of his wisdom and experience.
What personal backstory and early career details explain Ryan Fox’s late rise to major success?
Hello to you, Crash.
G'day, Gerard. I've got goosebumps listening to that. I just... This is a story, Gerard, of a battler made good. Didn't turn pro till he was 25. Grew up in New Zealand with golf as his number four sport after cricket, tennis and rugby. And somewhere in heaven, Shane warns having a drink to his old mate. Those two... He was Warnie's favourite golfer, Fox, and they'd go to the Dunhill links and play the pro-am and sit in the corner of the bar and Warnie would tell him these old stories and Fox just absolutely loved it. He just thought, when he got a text from Warnie saying, will you play with me in Dunhill, he thought it was a prank. He couldn't believe it. He thought, my hero. Imagine that. Imagine that.
Which key moments and scores defined Fox’s comeback across the third and fourth rounds?
So how did he do it? He birdies 13, 14, 16 and 18. But before that, he's 52nd at halfway. So this is the best 36 hole comeback, if that's what you'd called it, that we've seen. He shoots 62, which is the, that's the legendary figure on Saturday. And then those birdies on the back nine.
incredible and nothing came easily on the third uh on the 15th he had to hit backwards out of a bunker from an almost unplayable lie and then in the 16th his ball just went into a bunker just slipped in so nothing came easily to him jared but he's that old-fashioned new zealander He just grasps his way through. This was a beautiful – what I love about this, Gerard, there's a little bit of you and there's a little bit of me and there's a little bit of every golfer in him. He's got a bit of a porch around the belly. He's not one of these big, tall American golfers with the language swings. And he's been battling away. He's never finished closer than 16th in a major before now. And I just think – but he's got an earthliness about him.
He lives in London and he's just a great competitor. And I think that imagine the dream if you set up and you said, how do you want to win the British Open? You'd say something like this, wouldn't you? I'd love to come to the last hole where only three people, which is the hardest hole in the course, and only three people in the day have birdied it, and I need a birdie to win. And I hit the three best shots of my life in a row. I mean, this is fantasy land stuff. I felt the last day was a little bit boring because Cam Young had cleared out. He was in the clubhouse. He was well in front. But then it got extremely tense. And then you had this stardust in the last hole with Ryan Fox. Honestly, the son, of course, of Grant Fox, the former New Zealand fly half who won a World Cup.
But this has exceeded that. This is just stupendous.
I love the way he walks with such purpose and then no delay over the winning part. Nothing for nerves, nothing for dramatic effect, nothing for the buildup as one of the commentators noted in the aftermath. If you didn't have your wits about you, you would have missed it.
He just, oh, I love that. That's why, Gerard, when I was saying a little bit of you and me and him, he's the fastest golfer on the tour when all these other guys take forever, throwing up a piece of grass, watching the wind.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:36
2
How did Ryan Fox describe his emotions and shots after winning the British Open?
0:36–1:30
3
What personal backstory and early career details explain Ryan Fox’s late rise to major success?
1:30–2:16
4
Which key moments and scores defined Fox’s comeback across the third and fourth rounds?
2:16–6:45
5
What characteristics and playing style do Gerard and Robert Craddock credit for Fox’s victory?
6:45–9:54
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