December 17, 2025 • 16 mins
Kiwi golfing ledged Ryan Fox completed his second full season on the PGA Tour with two victories and a top 40 finish in the 2025 standings, and he's looking forward to an action-packed 2026.
He joined the Afternoons team to look back on 2025 - and speculate about the year ahead.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 5 (00:33):
It has been a phenomenal year for Key we Go
for Ryan Fox's twenty twenty five season included two PGA
two wins and again record how Good. He also closed
out the year winning the incredibly popular Chasing the Fox events.
Ryan Fox joins us now is part of our Christmas
catch Up with kick Ass kiwi's series Get Hey Ryan,
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hey guys, how you're doing? I'm good?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
There's an obvious answer to this question, or maybe not
which one or which tournament or performance means the most
of you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And why?
Speaker 7 (01:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hum? I mean, I've got to say the Canadian Naps,
you know, the first one at middle each was obviously
pretty special, being you know, my first PJA tool when
but you know, I think the satisfaction of doing it twice,
you know, feels like it's not not a fluke and
you know, the Canadian Open has such a a storied history.
(01:25):
I think it's one of the oldest golf tournaments in
the world. There's some pretty awesome names on that trophy.
So yeah, to join them and do it the way
I did it, Yeah, that means that means a lot.
The one on last ride out Jason the Fox is
pretty cool to to be able to. You know, obviously
it's a different style of event, but you know, to
(01:45):
do it at home, to play with Dan Hilliers on
my good mates, I feel like there was a little
bit of pressure on us to actually get it done,
and yet to get it done was was definitely satisfying too.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean, you know, both those were stopped the
nation moments, you know, and at work here every everyone
was talking about it and it's they literally stopped the nation.
But going to Chasing the Fox, it must be satisfying
to to win the trophy back off the show Pony
media team, some of the some of the worst people
(02:16):
in this country.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was big talk.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah, I've got to give them credit. I mean,
they were great ambassadors for the event last year. You know,
Mark Richardson just played out of a skin. By all accounts,
you know, was very impressive, and you know, Jerry and
Gerry and Die were the cheerleaders. From what I was told, Yes, but.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The particularly I was watching some of the footage, I
was wondering if it was his first game.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
But I've got.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's cool. It's it's a format that works for that
and it's great to see that they had a lot
of fun doing. Yeah. I mean they dined out on
it for a long time too, which was great.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I mean I've heard of virtually nothing else from from
Jeremy well since, so you know, it's been it's been
good for his already inflated egos, so it's you know,
it deflated, but now it's.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Good phenomenal events. So what part of your game do
you do? You think you've worked on the hardest this
year to improve?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Right, To be honest, it was probably the fitness side
of things. Last year I struggled with a bit of
a hip injury, and it was a weird injury that
it wasn't necessarily painful, but the body didn't move the
way it normally did in the golf swing, and I
really struggled to kind of be consistent with it. I
(03:33):
worked really hard in the off season at the back
of twenty twenty four to get everything right with that hap,
I had some treatment at a quarter zone injection and
it did all the rehab and then tried to keep
on top of that for most of as long as
I could this year, And you know, I didn't have
any issues with the hip. And then you know, we
(03:53):
were based in the US as well, which made travel
a whole lot easier. Yeah, compared to twenty twenty four.
So it was probably some of the off the golf
course stuff that really made a difference. You know, I
didn't feel like anything necessarily in the golf game too much.
It just being injury free kind of helped the golf
(04:13):
swing be a bit more consistent. That was all.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
You seem so calm in tournaments. You certainly don't piss
around before you smoke it off the off the tee.
Do you feel the pressure like other humans or is
your superpower dealing with with that pressure and just getting
on with it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, I mean you always feel pressure. You know. If
you didn't feel pressure and you weren't nervous about it,
kind of that would be time to quit. I think
it means it doesn't mean anything, So yeah, it's I've
been doing it for long enough. Now you know, I've
got the I got the strategies and you know, the
routines and all of the mental skills to deal with
(04:49):
it hopefully for the most part. And I still mess
it up a decent amount too. But I also like
it under pressure. I feel like it simplifies things a
little bit. And I know that sounds strange, but you know,
golf's the game where that ball doesn't move and you've
got way too much time to think about it. Hence
I tend to hit it quickly as well, so I
(05:10):
try to give myself less time to think about it.
But it's under pressure, it just like all the other stuff,
tends to go away and it just becomes Okay, I've
got to hit the shot. This is my start line,
this is my shape, and just it forces me to
kind of commit to that. Whereas you know, sometimes if
you're trying to make a cut or something like that,
(05:31):
that's when you're struggling a little bit. All the bad
thoughts come in and you're really you know, you think, oh,
I don't want to do this, or I've got to
swing it this way, and as soon as something something
becomes conscious, and sport it becomes very very hard, and
I think in golf you're always fighting that idea of
how to react to a target and how to make
it kind of unconscious while you've got so much time
(05:55):
to have conscious thoughts.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Do you now you've achieved you know, this year particularly
in a way that you know it's beyond anyone's ability
to even fantasize about. Really, is there any you know,
is there anything more that you just really really strongly
desire to achieve.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, there's definitely a couple of things. I'd love obviously
to win a major. You know, they're very very hard
to win, and you know, there there would probably more
be on the dream list than you know, what would
feel like, you know, our very realistic goal to achieve.
But I also feel like, you know, I know my
(06:36):
game is good enough to compete at the highest level
and hopefully, you know, one of those weeks where I
play really well is in one of those big events,
So you know, I think there's I always feel like
there's a little bit of luck involved with that that
sometimes it's really hard to pick what weeks you're going
to play well and then you know, hopefully you play
well in a good week. And the other one that
(06:58):
I really want for next year is that President's Cup team.
I've missed out the last couple in twenty two and
twenty four, and you know, felt pretty hard done by
twenty two. So yeah, We've got a President's Cup and
Marion and in Chicago in September, and I'd love to
be a part of that international team. And you know,
that feels like something I'm missing. And yeah, so all
(07:21):
the work for next year is going to be going
into trying to make that team later in the year.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's an interesting thing about golf, isn't it Because you
need that incredible round to hit at the incredible time.
And is that something that you can control or is
it just you know, a body of work across a
period of time and if it comes right on the
(07:47):
right day and the biggest of spotlights, then it happens.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think for most people it's the second one, you know.
I think there has been guys over the years that
have been able to kind of pull it out when
they need it, you know. Tiger Woods is one. I
feel like scottis Chef was pretty good at it. Mcl
who has been pretty good at over the years Jack
Nicholas and Arnold Palmer and those guys. But I would
(08:15):
say for the majority of tour players, you know, you
put in all the work. You know your game is
good enough, but it's maybe not quite as consistent as
some of the absolute world class players, you know, the
guys that are going to go down in history. But
you know, you just kind of hope and trust that
(08:36):
you know, your time to play well is going to
come over a year, and if it comes during the
right stretch of events, you have a really really good year.
If it doesn't, well, you know, it maybe doesn't quite
look as good on paper, but you still kind of
play the same level of golf. And you know, I
kind of feel like that's what happened to me this year.
You know, my golf game is definitely good enough to
(08:57):
compete with the best guys, as I said, and I
just had a really really good patch at the right
time in the middle of the year, and you know,
I took advantage of a couple of chances to win,
and I played well in a couple of majors and
a couple of those signature events, and you know, all
of a sudden probably has on pay for my best
year and professional golf as a thirty eight year old.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Absolutely, just rolling back to the Canadian Open. A lovely,
beautiful moment when you've got the presentation. You know what
I'm talking about here, but you give it. Yeah, the
presentations on going and your daughters are having a play
in the bunker.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
A beautiful moment.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I mean, one, it must be amazing to have your
family there for those those moments, but also two, are
you saving that video for their twenty first.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Definitely saving the video. But it's kind of cool how
it's you know, puts everything in perspective, right, Like, you know,
I'm standing there, I've won the biggest event I've one
in my life, and the girls don't really care. You know,
they see they see the biggest stand bulk ever and
all they want to do is go and play. And
(09:59):
it's so wholesome and brilliant and like you know, from
our point of view, it's amazing to have the family there.
Like you know, the photo as we got on the
eighth green with the trophy. I've been lucky enough to
do that a couple of times with the family there.
But you know, I'm going to remember all of that
but also, you know, with them traveling, it doesn't matter
if I play well or play badly. I'm still dad
(10:21):
and they still love me, and i still love them,
and it's you know it kind of it just makes it.
It makes the travel hard, but it makes the dealing
with the ups and downs of professional sport a little
bit easier.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
News Talk z B we are joined by New Zealand
golfing legend Ryan Fox as part of our Christmas catch
up with kick Ass Kiwi's Ryan.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Thank you very much again for your time.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No problem. I don't know how you keep saying that.
To be honest, I'd missed that little tongue twister up
a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That was.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I practiced that a lot last night, actually, mate, when
when Medi came up with it, I thought, Jesus, I've
got to practice it before we chat with Ryan.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I don't want to embarrass myself.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I was pretty pleased. We've done in two of these
interviews before we came up with the name of the segment,
so we're pleased to get it. Yea three three into
the series of us looking forward to playing a few
rounds on the break. You know, golf is your job.
Do you take a break from golf or is golf
also a recreation for you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's a little bit of both, you know. I like
putting the sticks down definitely, But you know, I've still
a lot of mates that I've played golf with. It's
getting close to thirty years now, which is quite scary,
and like, yeah, it's social golf. I love that. I
love going out and talking crap with them and you know,
trying to take trying to take a beer off them
(11:39):
at the end. And you know, the great thing about
golf too is the handicapped system. You know, with as
long as the handicaps are accurate, which for the most part,
everyone's hands and all their cards and does the right thing.
And it's the handicaps are accurate, you can have a
you can have a match against anyone and that's cool.
So I still love doing that with my mates, and
I'll do that a little bit over Christmas, but I've
(12:00):
certainly put the clubs down for a week or so
and try to get the boat fired up and use
a different type of graphite shaft to do something well.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You know, I think that's one of the reasons why
you're so loved in New Zealand, particularly in globally is
that that mate side of it is such a big
part of it, and for most of us, that's all
of what golf is. So see someone on the level
you are that also appreciates times with mates and appreciates
the times after the games with mates and families is
(12:31):
a huge thing. And speaking of what's what's on the
menu at the Foxes for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We're hosting this year, which is pretty cool. We've got
both sides of the family coming, my wife side of
my side, which is nice, and I'm on the tools
on the barbecue, so we've got a Christmas hand and
a big piece of steak. Nice. And the greatest thing
about that is it's actually one from a meat pack
of a mate of mine who is one of the Halibi's.
(12:59):
He made a silly bet with me if if I
won a PJ Tour event, he provide me a meat pack.
So yeah, I'm definitely definitely claiming that often.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Ye, yeah, that's going to taste particularly sweet. Hey, real
tree or fake tree right.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
This year with faith unfortunately, but we have done the
real tree the last few years.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Well, this is probably a reasonbly annoying and difficult question
to answer. Across the lifetime. But what's the best present
you ever received for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh? I don't know. I've got to say our firstborn
daughter was about a week before Christmas, so having her
the first Christmas in twenty twenty, that was probably probably
the best present. And you know, I think Christmas just
gets a bit cooler when you can share it with
the kids. You know what I means so much for them,
So yeah, I'll definitely say having the kids around for
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it's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
That is a great answer. And what are you grateful for?
Most grateful for this year?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Just I think selfishly having some certainty going forward. I'm
a PGA tour having job security, which we don't get
that and very often, so I'm very thankful for that.
And you have some security around family and what we're
going to do. But I think the biggest thing is
actually just being able to have the family around. As
I said, we're hosting everyone for the first time in
(14:21):
a little while, so yeah, it'll be very cool to
have everyone at our place and just chilling out and
having a few wines and then some good food hopefully.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And finally, potentially the most punishing question of our Christmas
catch Ups with kick Ass Kiwi's nice Nailed It, Thank
You as your favorite Christmas song of all time?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right, I'm going to apologize for anyone that has to
listen to us in advance, but my favorite as a
kid was Snoopy's Christmas.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
That's a great classic, absolutely classic, and I hate that
that sort of drop that used to be compulsory to
be played on radio when I was growing up, and
it's dropped off a little bit. So I actually applaud
you for bringing that back. Great story, raw guds.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, love it. Right, Very Christmas, my friend.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
We're going to play it song for you now. But mate,
have a very merry Christmas and a great breakover summer
and hopefully we'll catch up in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes, guys, have a good one, no problem at all. Yeah, Yeah,
that's number works all year around. Apologies again for having
a place Nope's Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Will allow it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah that is Ryan Fox is part of our Christmas
catch Up with kick Ass Kiwi series.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
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Speaker 8 (15:31):
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Speaker 2 (15:46):
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Speaker 7 (16:00):
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Speaker 5 (00:33):
It has been a phenomenal year for Key we Go
for Ryan Fox's twenty twenty five season included two PGA
two wins and again record how Good. He also closed
out the year winning the incredibly popular Chasing the Fox events.
Ryan Fox joins us now is part of our Christmas
catch Up with kick Ass kiwi's series Get Hey Ryan,
How you doing?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Hey guys, how you're doing? I'm good?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
There's an obvious answer to this question, or maybe not
which one or which tournament or performance means the most
of you?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
And why?
Speaker 7 (01:02):
Right?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Hum? I mean, I've got to say the Canadian Naps,
you know, the first one at middle each was obviously
pretty special, being you know, my first PJA tool when
but you know, I think the satisfaction of doing it twice,
you know, feels like it's not not a fluke and
you know, the Canadian Open has such a a storied history.
(01:25):
I think it's one of the oldest golf tournaments in
the world. There's some pretty awesome names on that trophy.
So yeah, to join them and do it the way
I did it, Yeah, that means that means a lot.
The one on last ride out Jason the Fox is
pretty cool to to be able to. You know, obviously
it's a different style of event, but you know, to
(01:45):
do it at home, to play with Dan Hilliers on
my good mates, I feel like there was a little
bit of pressure on us to actually get it done,
and yet to get it done was was definitely satisfying too.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Yeah, I mean, you know, both those were stopped the
nation moments, you know, and at work here every everyone
was talking about it and it's they literally stopped the nation.
But going to Chasing the Fox, it must be satisfying
to to win the trophy back off the show Pony
media team, some of the some of the worst people
(02:16):
in this country.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
It was big talk.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Yeah, yeah, I've got to give them credit. I mean,
they were great ambassadors for the event last year. You know,
Mark Richardson just played out of a skin. By all accounts,
you know, was very impressive, and you know, Jerry and
Gerry and Die were the cheerleaders. From what I was told, Yes, but.
Speaker 6 (02:38):
The particularly I was watching some of the footage, I
was wondering if it was his first game.
Speaker 8 (02:42):
But I've got.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
It's cool. It's it's a format that works for that
and it's great to see that they had a lot
of fun doing. Yeah. I mean they dined out on
it for a long time too, which was great.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I mean I've heard of virtually nothing else from from
Jeremy well since, so you know, it's been it's been
good for his already inflated egos, so it's you know,
it deflated, but now it's.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Good phenomenal events. So what part of your game do
you do? You think you've worked on the hardest this
year to improve?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Right, To be honest, it was probably the fitness side
of things. Last year I struggled with a bit of
a hip injury, and it was a weird injury that
it wasn't necessarily painful, but the body didn't move the
way it normally did in the golf swing, and I
really struggled to kind of be consistent with it. I
(03:33):
worked really hard in the off season at the back
of twenty twenty four to get everything right with that hap,
I had some treatment at a quarter zone injection and
it did all the rehab and then tried to keep
on top of that for most of as long as
I could this year, And you know, I didn't have
any issues with the hip. And then you know, we
(03:53):
were based in the US as well, which made travel
a whole lot easier. Yeah, compared to twenty twenty four.
So it was probably some of the off the golf
course stuff that really made a difference. You know, I
didn't feel like anything necessarily in the golf game too much.
It just being injury free kind of helped the golf
(04:13):
swing be a bit more consistent. That was all.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
You seem so calm in tournaments. You certainly don't piss
around before you smoke it off the off the tee.
Do you feel the pressure like other humans or is
your superpower dealing with with that pressure and just getting
on with it.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, I mean you always feel pressure. You know. If
you didn't feel pressure and you weren't nervous about it,
kind of that would be time to quit. I think
it means it doesn't mean anything, So yeah, it's I've
been doing it for long enough. Now you know, I've
got the I got the strategies and you know, the
routines and all of the mental skills to deal with
(04:49):
it hopefully for the most part. And I still mess
it up a decent amount too. But I also like
it under pressure. I feel like it simplifies things a
little bit. And I know that sounds strange, but you know,
golf's the game where that ball doesn't move and you've
got way too much time to think about it. Hence
I tend to hit it quickly as well, so I
(05:10):
try to give myself less time to think about it.
But it's under pressure, it just like all the other stuff,
tends to go away and it just becomes Okay, I've
got to hit the shot. This is my start line,
this is my shape, and just it forces me to
kind of commit to that. Whereas you know, sometimes if
you're trying to make a cut or something like that,
(05:31):
that's when you're struggling a little bit. All the bad
thoughts come in and you're really you know, you think, oh,
I don't want to do this, or I've got to
swing it this way, and as soon as something something
becomes conscious, and sport it becomes very very hard, and
I think in golf you're always fighting that idea of
how to react to a target and how to make
it kind of unconscious while you've got so much time
(05:55):
to have conscious thoughts.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
Do you now you've achieved you know, this year particularly
in a way that you know it's beyond anyone's ability
to even fantasize about. Really, is there any you know,
is there anything more that you just really really strongly
desire to achieve.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Yeah, there's definitely a couple of things. I'd love obviously
to win a major. You know, they're very very hard
to win, and you know, there there would probably more
be on the dream list than you know, what would
feel like, you know, our very realistic goal to achieve.
But I also feel like, you know, I know my
(06:36):
game is good enough to compete at the highest level
and hopefully, you know, one of those weeks where I
play really well is in one of those big events,
So you know, I think there's I always feel like
there's a little bit of luck involved with that that
sometimes it's really hard to pick what weeks you're going
to play well and then you know, hopefully you play
well in a good week. And the other one that
(06:58):
I really want for next year is that President's Cup team.
I've missed out the last couple in twenty two and
twenty four, and you know, felt pretty hard done by
twenty two. So yeah, We've got a President's Cup and
Marion and in Chicago in September, and I'd love to
be a part of that international team. And you know,
that feels like something I'm missing. And yeah, so all
(07:21):
the work for next year is going to be going
into trying to make that team later in the year.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
That's an interesting thing about golf, isn't it Because you
need that incredible round to hit at the incredible time.
And is that something that you can control or is
it just you know, a body of work across a
period of time and if it comes right on the
(07:47):
right day and the biggest of spotlights, then it happens.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
I think for most people it's the second one, you know.
I think there has been guys over the years that
have been able to kind of pull it out when
they need it, you know. Tiger Woods is one. I
feel like scottis Chef was pretty good at it. Mcl
who has been pretty good at over the years Jack
Nicholas and Arnold Palmer and those guys. But I would
(08:15):
say for the majority of tour players, you know, you
put in all the work. You know your game is
good enough, but it's maybe not quite as consistent as
some of the absolute world class players, you know, the
guys that are going to go down in history. But
you know, you just kind of hope and trust that
(08:36):
you know, your time to play well is going to
come over a year, and if it comes during the
right stretch of events, you have a really really good year.
If it doesn't, well, you know, it maybe doesn't quite
look as good on paper, but you still kind of
play the same level of golf. And you know, I
kind of feel like that's what happened to me this year.
You know, my golf game is definitely good enough to
(08:57):
compete with the best guys, as I said, and I
just had a really really good patch at the right
time in the middle of the year, and you know,
I took advantage of a couple of chances to win,
and I played well in a couple of majors and
a couple of those signature events, and you know, all
of a sudden probably has on pay for my best
year and professional golf as a thirty eight year old.
Speaker 4 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
Absolutely, just rolling back to the Canadian Open. A lovely,
beautiful moment when you've got the presentation. You know what
I'm talking about here, but you give it. Yeah, the
presentations on going and your daughters are having a play
in the bunker.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
A beautiful moment.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
I mean, one, it must be amazing to have your
family there for those those moments, but also two, are
you saving that video for their twenty first.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Definitely saving the video. But it's kind of cool how
it's you know, puts everything in perspective, right, Like, you know,
I'm standing there, I've won the biggest event I've one
in my life, and the girls don't really care. You know,
they see they see the biggest stand bulk ever and
all they want to do is go and play. And
(09:59):
it's so wholesome and brilliant and like you know, from
our point of view, it's amazing to have the family there.
Like you know, the photo as we got on the
eighth green with the trophy. I've been lucky enough to
do that a couple of times with the family there.
But you know, I'm going to remember all of that
but also, you know, with them traveling, it doesn't matter
if I play well or play badly. I'm still dad
(10:21):
and they still love me, and i still love them,
and it's you know it kind of it just makes it.
It makes the travel hard, but it makes the dealing
with the ups and downs of professional sport a little
bit easier.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
News Talk z B we are joined by New Zealand
golfing legend Ryan Fox as part of our Christmas catch
up with kick Ass Kiwi's Ryan.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Thank you very much again for your time.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
No problem. I don't know how you keep saying that.
To be honest, I'd missed that little tongue twister up
a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
That was.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
I practiced that a lot last night, actually, mate, when
when Medi came up with it, I thought, Jesus, I've
got to practice it before we chat with Ryan.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I don't want to embarrass myself.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
I was pretty pleased. We've done in two of these
interviews before we came up with the name of the segment,
so we're pleased to get it. Yea three three into
the series of us looking forward to playing a few
rounds on the break. You know, golf is your job.
Do you take a break from golf or is golf
also a recreation for you.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It's a little bit of both, you know. I like
putting the sticks down definitely, But you know, I've still
a lot of mates that I've played golf with. It's
getting close to thirty years now, which is quite scary,
and like, yeah, it's social golf. I love that. I
love going out and talking crap with them and you know,
trying to take trying to take a beer off them
(11:39):
at the end. And you know, the great thing about
golf too is the handicapped system. You know, with as
long as the handicaps are accurate, which for the most part,
everyone's hands and all their cards and does the right thing.
And it's the handicaps are accurate, you can have a
you can have a match against anyone and that's cool.
So I still love doing that with my mates, and
I'll do that a little bit over Christmas, but I've
(12:00):
certainly put the clubs down for a week or so
and try to get the boat fired up and use
a different type of graphite shaft to do something well.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You know, I think that's one of the reasons why
you're so loved in New Zealand, particularly in globally is
that that mate side of it is such a big
part of it, and for most of us, that's all
of what golf is. So see someone on the level
you are that also appreciates times with mates and appreciates
the times after the games with mates and families is
(12:31):
a huge thing. And speaking of what's what's on the
menu at the Foxes for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (12:38):
We're hosting this year, which is pretty cool. We've got
both sides of the family coming, my wife side of
my side, which is nice, and I'm on the tools
on the barbecue, so we've got a Christmas hand and
a big piece of steak. Nice. And the greatest thing
about that is it's actually one from a meat pack
of a mate of mine who is one of the Halibi's.
(12:59):
He made a silly bet with me if if I
won a PJ Tour event, he provide me a meat pack.
So yeah, I'm definitely definitely claiming that often.
Speaker 5 (13:08):
Ye, yeah, that's going to taste particularly sweet. Hey, real
tree or fake tree right.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
This year with faith unfortunately, but we have done the
real tree the last few years.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Nice.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Well, this is probably a reasonbly annoying and difficult question
to answer. Across the lifetime. But what's the best present
you ever received for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh? I don't know. I've got to say our firstborn
daughter was about a week before Christmas, so having her
the first Christmas in twenty twenty, that was probably probably
the best present. And you know, I think Christmas just
gets a bit cooler when you can share it with
the kids. You know what I means so much for them,
So yeah, I'll definitely say having the kids around for
(13:52):
it's been amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:53):
That is a great answer. And what are you grateful for?
Most grateful for this year?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Just I think selfishly having some certainty going forward. I'm
a PGA tour having job security, which we don't get
that and very often, so I'm very thankful for that.
And you have some security around family and what we're
going to do. But I think the biggest thing is
actually just being able to have the family around. As
I said, we're hosting everyone for the first time in
(14:21):
a little while, so yeah, it'll be very cool to
have everyone at our place and just chilling out and
having a few wines and then some good food hopefully.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And finally, potentially the most punishing question of our Christmas
catch Ups with kick Ass Kiwi's nice Nailed It, Thank
You as your favorite Christmas song of all time?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Right, I'm going to apologize for anyone that has to
listen to us in advance, but my favorite as a
kid was Snoopy's Christmas.
Speaker 6 (14:50):
That's a great classic, absolutely classic, and I hate that
that sort of drop that used to be compulsory to
be played on radio when I was growing up, and
it's dropped off a little bit. So I actually applaud
you for bringing that back. Great story, raw guds.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Yeah, love it. Right, Very Christmas, my friend.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
We're going to play it song for you now. But mate,
have a very merry Christmas and a great breakover summer
and hopefully we'll catch up in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Yes, guys, have a good one, no problem at all. Yeah, Yeah,
that's number works all year around. Apologies again for having
a place Nope's Christmas.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Will allow it.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Yeah that is Ryan Fox is part of our Christmas
catch Up with kick Ass Kiwi series.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
You listen to the Newstalks He'd beat.
Speaker 8 (15:31):
The news had come out in the First World War.
Bundy red barn is flying once more. All I command
to ignore all of his men and calling on stoopid
to do it again?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Was it night for Christmas?
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Ford and Budo with stupid enough concerns His follow up
spin the Red baron seriously then I so on his wigs?
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Was Rastmas Christmas?
Speaker 1 (16:21):
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