We all know it’s easy to write headlines for Ryan Fox when he’s playing well, as he has been fairly often of late. He’s won twice this season, finished runner-up four times, 3rd once, and placed in the top ten on three more occasions – all of which has helped him to amass the tidy sum of €3.3 million. Having started the year just outside the top 200 in the world, by mid-October he had soared to a career-high 23rd.
Until this year, Fox’s only victory on the DP World Tour had come Down Under, at the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth in early 2019. This season, however, the Kiwi has taken his game to a whole new level, and the two further titles that he’s added to his resumé include what you might call a big one’ the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Fox's consistency this year also put him in contention to win the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai crown, something he admits he never would have expected at the start of the year. He wasn't able to do something special” around the Earth course at the DP
World Tour Championship in mid-November and overhaul Rory Mcllroy at the top, but he still has a case to add his name to the list of New Zealand's greatest ever sportsmen a list that includes his father, Grant Fox, the legendary fly-half who helped kick the All Blacks to glory at the inaugural rugby union World Cup back in 1987.
“It’s easily the biggest win of my career so far,” Fox says of his one-shot victory at the Dunhill Links, where Mclilroy had come into his rear-view mirror on the back nine to really crank up the pressure. To beat a strong field like that, it certainly means a lot.”
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Golf Monthly.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber ? Sign In
This story is from the January 2023 edition of Golf Monthly.
Start your 7-day Magzter GOLD free trial to access thousands of curated premium stories, and 9,000+ magazines and newspapers.
Already a subscriber? Sign In
A GRAND ESTATE
Goodwood in West Sussex may be steeped in ancestral history, but about 20 years ago it elected to take its golf offering down a very different route...
The Tees Valley
Jeremy Ellwood potters about along the famous north-east river for a couple of days, basing himself at Rockliffe Hall, one of England's finest golf hotels
The Western Cape
Along with its stunning scenery, vineyards and welcoming climate, this region is home to a wealth of fine courses
Murcar Links
The 20-mile stretch of coastline northwards from Aberdeen is home to no fewer than four links in the Golf Monthly Top 100.
How to play the chip-and-run
The chip-and-run is one of the most useful shots in anyone’s short-game arsenal but most golfers don’t use it enough.
Is your angle of attack correct?
You can add serious distance to your drives if you get the upward angle of attack into impact correct
LEARN FROM THE BEST!
Star players' signature shots... and how you can play them
Confessions of a golf club fitter
Is everything always as it seems in the customfitting bay? We ask someone in the know how you can avoid some of the more unscrupulous practices
Dining at the TOP TABLE
Aaron Rai's Wyndham Championship victory has elevated his career to a new level. But, as he tells David Facey, he's taking nothing for granted...
Is golf too expensive?
The cost of membership, greens fees, gear and more can give our game a bad rap. Is that fair or are there more affordable ways to play? Michael Weston investigates...
