June 11, 2025 • 19 mins
On Sports Fix with D'Arcy Waldegrave for Wednesday June 11, 2025 - Ryan Fox has had a monstrous few weeks on the PGA Tour. Tournament wins, major appearances, and the attention of the world’s sporting media. He had a chat with D’Arcy about the whirlwind and how it’s affected him and his family.
D’Arcy gets petty, using this platform to say 'I told you so' after last weekend’s Super Rugby Pacific fixtures.
In the Chamber, D’Arcy and Newstalk ZB’s director of sport discuss the re-signing of Caleb Clarke and the US Open track at Oakmont, where the best players in golf go to die.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
You're listening to a podcast from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
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now on iHeartRadio. This is Sportsfix Howard by News Talks.
It'd be Hi there and welcome on into the Sports Fix.
You're a home of all you need to know and
bite sized chunks in the wonderful wide world of sports.
My name is Darcy Walgo. It is Wednesday, the eleventh
of June twenty twenty five, and in this podcast we
(00:36):
bring to you mister Ryan Fox, without a doubt, the
form golfer of the last couple of months, well maybe
three weeks in the PGA Espur. He's got lots to say.
He loves the yarn. Ryan Fox. Just around the corner.
After that, I get to use this platform in a
really selfish manner. I get to say I told you so.
(00:59):
Because it's podcast, you can't respond. And to end things,
we've got Clay Wilson joining us in the chamber is
the director of Sports News at Newstalk z B. That's
all lined up for you coming up in the next
firthday minutes or so, in association with as always JJ
Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builders. Let's do this.
(01:23):
In other news, don't odd of crag. In some short
pro from the Sporting Newsmakers, All Blacks winger Caleb Clark
has committed to New Zealand right been to the end
of twenty twenty seven because output doesn't quite stand up
to last year's efforts. It's a place he wants to
climb back into.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I compare my game so last year.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think last year I'm touching the ball maybe fifteen
sixteen times.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Let's year it's like five or six.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So I'm just trying to get her on the ball
more and be more of an option and yet just
have that enjoyment again.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The All Whots got beaten this morning by Ukraine two one.
That was the final score, and midfielder Joe Bell offered
this at games end, really.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Important for us to take that scorting.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's a really good op possession and we.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Had that in these two games. Obviously got a little
bit appointed.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
With the second result here, but I think we've taken
some really good stats.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For us, so we're happy with that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He said. Steps forward, not learnings of the Joe and
Ryan Fox has had eight month to remember on the
PGA he's overcome injury to assesst his advance up the
game's rankings. He's avoided the doctor's revolved as well.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
With a happen Inrew last year, and I was really
struggling golfs and wise and I basically got told you
sort yourself out or you were staring down the bow
of surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Es obviously, but to make a change when you've got
a gun pointed to your.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Head like that, there's a few shorty sporty sounds for
your use. And Avidion It's Sportsfix with Dancy Waldegrave. I
spent most of last week telling the listeners, telling anyone
who'd listened, telling my colleagues in the sport department that
they should stop having a winge about the nature of
(03:05):
Super rugby. All the talk last week was around and
how it's gross, the unfair. We know what's going to happen.
Some of these games are dead rubbers. How could they
possibly organize something like this? This is a disaster. What
I expect was it was a cork off the bottle
of discontent. People love to have a winge about Super rugby,
(03:27):
and so far this season you can't because the competition
has been exceptional right from the get go. This has
been the vibrant type of super rugby that we have
all longed for over so many years. But of course
the first chance for people to complain you know what,
we're like, man, you're like they climbed on board straight
(03:49):
away and laiden to the format. As I went to
great pains to point out, this is not Super Rugby
Pacific's fault. This was because the Melbourne Rebels died. They
had to change the format, they dropped one team, They
did the best they possibly could and let's face it,
without the Rebels, even though that was an interference, come
(04:13):
the Corterrish Finals time and made the competition so much better.
It concentrated the talent. Sohead of the weekend, I'm tired
of the morning. I kept on telling people, you don't
know what's going to happen. Stop being so presumptuous around results,
because of one thing we've learned from Super Roman Pacific
(04:33):
this year. It is not predictable. Sure as eggs what happened,
The results didn't go the way people thought they would.
Are so called dead rubber in the last game of
the quarterish finals. It wasn't and we know it wasn't
because the hurricanes are still licking their wounds. So be
(04:55):
careful before you start teeing off on a competition thinking
you know it's going to be predictable, because in sport,
it never is. Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with
Darcy Wildegrave. He Sound's number one golfer Ryan Fox that
joins us now after a phenomenal couple of weeks on
(05:18):
the PGA, Ryan, I gotta ask, have you spen any
time sitting down and caring and absorbing in what's happened
to you over the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, definitely, not at a week off after the PGA,
which kind of let a little bit of Myrtle beach maybe,
But yeah, the last week, I don't know, I mean
it was it was crazy, especially the finishes in both playoffs. Yeah,
I don't know if I'll ever quite figure out what happened,
but yeah, it's it's been a life changing month, to
be honest, And that's probably the only way I could
(05:52):
describe it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
In life changing because of where you set your position
in the world of golf, because of the money that's
turned up, or the opportunities that have opened for you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, it's it's more the more the latter part of
that than anything.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean, it's it's having some security over here for
a few years now, you know, getting into some the
big events. Obviously, I played my way into two majors
in the last month as last minute Charlie, you know,
playing some of the signature events now, you know, looking
really good for the for the playoffs this year and
into some some big events again for next year, if
(06:28):
I can, you know Cement being in that top fifty
at the end of the year. So it's yeah, it's
changed everything PG tool wise. It's changed our lives of
family immensely. You know, having that security and being able
to make decisions on our future with certainty is you know,
a big change from what it's been the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Last couple of years, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So yeah, it's life changing, as I said, was the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What about the media, Ryan, I mean, you like your
old man Grant, you love a good yarn and you're
always very open to talking to the media, but i'd
suggest over the last few weeks a little harder to
deal with. It's getting pretty intense.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, look, I mean it's it's all I do
love a chat like the old man, and you know,
the New Zealand media always fantastic. And you know, I've
got personal personal relationships with a lot of people, including yourself,
which is great. There's certainly been a few extra requests
this week that have come in, and you know, a
couple via my manager and he's had to play bad
cop a couple of times, you know, kind of staying fox.
(07:29):
So you've got a major to prepare for. You need
to rest, chill out, and yeah, it's it's been a
bit crazy. Probably the craziest thing is trying to apply
to all the texts and everything else that has come through.
Didn't realize so many people had my phone number, to
be honest, so it's it's look all good problems to have,
to be honest. It's it can get pretty lonely when
things are going there the wrong way and you're struggling
(07:50):
and no one really thinks about your worries about you.
But you know, when you're getting a bunch of messages
and interview requests and all that stuff, it means you're
doing something right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Coping tools, Ryan, what have you got in your quiver
to deal with this? Because the more you advance up
the ranking, the more majors you compete in, the bigger
the pressure is going to be on you. This is
not golf. This is the the horsepower up stairs. This
is your head space. What are you seeking in order
(08:23):
to deal with this?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I've worked with a sports site for a long time
go called Carl Morris, and you know that's more on
the golf course stuff. But I've never really had an
off an issue with the off the golf course stuff,
you know, apart from maybe I've got to be a
bit better at saying no and being being a bit
selfish in a way. And you know, obviously I've got
a young family as well, and I've I've got to
give them a bunch of time, you know, and you know,
(08:46):
not be not be very selfish in that way. So yeah,
it's it's at learning curve. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I probably had a little bit of it a couple
of years ago with that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Great run I had in Europe and then winning it
went Worth and stuff like that. So there was a
there was a pretty big uptick there, you know, with
with the off course responsibilities and sort of the newfound fame.
I guess a little bit if you want to put
it that way. And I probably didn't realize how big
all of that was until like I got home at
(09:17):
the end of the year and there was a whole
lot more pressure on my time in that regard.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And I'm sure it's going to be be the same
this year.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know, when I when I eventually get home at
the end of the years, I'm going to get pulled
in a bunch of different directions. And I said, as
I said, I've just got to be a bit better
at saying no. And you know, it's it's just a
product of what it is. Like I'm a I'm a
father and a husband first and I'm a goal for second.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And you know it's.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh, as I said, they're good problems to have as well,
and I just got to find a nice balance with it.
And you know, if I do have to chat to someone,
I think probably someone in my family's got some pretty
good experience of of how to deal with that kind
of stuff as well, so I can lean on Dad
a little bit there, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So I'm sure I'll figure it out going forward.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The Chamber is now in session on Sports Fix that's
at the Chamber now. Clay Wilson Sports news rectail from
News Talk z B has given us some of his
valuable time to come into the chamber and between dealing
with rosters, journalists on of course sports news as well.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It doesn't earth to do that most days, does he
so good to be here as always.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And used today that Caleb Clark has decided he's going
to stick around. You're gonna stick around for another couple
of years for Auckland, for Blues and more importantly the
All Blacks. This has been a crazy last couple of
months because we've had some players leaving. Well, we've had
some key players staying as well. You've got to give
credit right to the union.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, because there's been so much discussion for quite a
while now, hasn't thereabouts what a New Zealand rag we're
going to do with the eligibility issue. Are they going
to open it up? Are they going to let players
play overseas? How are they going to deal with these
big cashed up clubs in Japan and Europe and keep
our best talent here in the country. And of course
(11:02):
we have had some go in a Richard Mwanga has
been a prime example in recent years. But you get
Damian McKenzie. Now you get Caleb Clark, and like you say,
there's others that aren't come into my mind right now,
but a lot of our top talent players that are
going to start and the All Blacks will be very
close to it choosing to re sign and stay around.
(11:23):
So I guess yeah, New Zealand Rugby has a bit
more flexibility with sabbaticals and the likes now Rico Yuani
has resigned, He's obviously got a sabbatical, but they're doing
well and it just goes to show that the lure
of the All Black jersey a World Cup coming up
in twenty twenty seven, that helps as well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Right, And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Maybe Scott Robertson has a factor in this for some
of these players. They like what he's doing, They want
to see more, they want to be part of that team.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well that they've had good super seasons and they know
it's a World Cup, so now they've set the stall out.
Robertson's had a year to go, oh what am I
doing here? Howses happening? So potential is huge and the
whole All Black jujus. This is something the Union have
gone on about for years, the lure of the jersey
and it's still there. Yeah, it's definitely still there.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And you look at someone like Caleb Clark and we
have a list here in one of our files in
our sports team with contracted all blacks and who is
who is off contract when and how long they're on
contract for. And Caleb Clark was one of those names
on our twenty twenty five list that always jumped out
every time I went back and looked and looked at
it throughout this year. So to see him resign, you know,
(12:35):
that's a that's a massive cup for New Zealand rugby
because you look at someone like him, not just how
good he is, but what type of player he is.
He loves rugby league, that's been talking about him sniffing
around rugby league. He trained with the Rabbit Oz was
it last year of.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The year before.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So at his age, you know, we saw Mark to
Leah go at some well a little bit older, but
still that kind of mid to late twenties kind of age.
So to get him to be able to stay, it's
a pretty pretty big effort for New Zealand rugby and
one I'm sure not only them, but you know, for
the Blues as well. To get a guy like that
and know he's going to be around you know, big
(13:11):
Auckland guys loyal to the Blues in Auckland and his old.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man had something to say about it as well. You're
not going to say, oh, Dad, actually don't know what
you're talking about. You're going to give him due reverence.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yes, definitely, and you know, not only a great rugby player,
but also you know, one of rugby's really great characters
are nice guys to deal with. So from our perspective,
that's great because he's he speaks so well and he's
such a lovely bloke to deal with, and you combine
that with he's just an absolute powerhouse on the Field's
a freak with just and you know, with great skills,
(13:44):
so athletic. So you know, a great news for everyone
I think involved in terms of rugby in this country.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Has anyone told Lester Nukel well that you go?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But that's good as well, right because he he's going
to come back and that competition heats up again. So
I don't know, it comes in waves, these signings and
players going off shore, doesn't it. You do lose some,
but you know, probably a year eighteen months ago. We
were very hot on they need to change or are
they going to change their eligibility rules? And now you
(14:14):
get all these resignings and you say wow, like you say,
the lure of the jersey, maybe it's still there.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
These players want to stay. Let's talk golf. Just had
a chat with Ryan Fox. That guy loves a yarn.
He's one of.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The just talking about good guys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He's definitely on that so good.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Funny in the interview saying they should learn to say no.
He can't help himself. So many people have got his
phone number. But let's talk about the golf itself. He's
got some really odd tea off times between rounds one
and two. If you take it on a day, how
we watch it. It's in less than a day. He
finishes one round and starts the other. It's a monstrous
(14:52):
sole way to get into things. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And of course, the way these golf tournaments work, being
four rounds with a cut after two, you either get
an early start and then a later start the next
day or the opposite. And he's got the second of
those two. He's got a late start on the first
day and then an early start the next day, So
I guess it's a bit of a toss of a
coin in terms of what you get with weather. Obviously
(15:14):
you want to have calmer conditions potentially to play in.
So who knows how it kind of plays out for him,
But we know he's a fast player. He likes to
play fast, so certainly on that second day, starting so early,
we'll suit him getting out early and getting ahead of
the kind of pack. But that's probably not going to
be as big as worry, I think with this tournament,
because we're.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Going to talk about the course.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's it. That's the monster here is and it's not
the other players. It's not his game. It's the thing
that he's playing on. And everybody you talk to they
don't like it. But this is what we need. These
are professors, These are the best of the world. The
US Open is renowned for having absolute monstrous tracks to
play on, as it should be. It makes me realize
(15:59):
that these people are human.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
They play like us of push Yeah, and you know,
I think about sport at the highest level, and you know,
talk about our national game rugby. We get the All
Black cause they get into these brutal games against South
Africa against France, against England against Australia, and these players
are pushed to the brink physically, their skills are tested,
and you get the feeling, or at least the perception
sometimes in golf that these guys are so good. They
(16:22):
play kind of robotic PlayStation golf on some of these courses,
shoot fifteen, twenty, twenty five hundred to win a tournament,
and you're sitting there thinking, man, it looks and of
course it's not easy, but it looks so easy, right,
And as an entertainment product, you want to see these
players tested. And the US Open is renowned, isn't it
for throwing up these courses and saying, go and shoot
(16:43):
under par?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I dare you kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Michael Campbell did it twenty years ago. He was the
only guy who at four rounds under par he won
the championship. Now and that is rough, That is tough.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, and I actually saw something earlier today speaking to
that Underpathing with a whole bunch of top players, and
they were asked, we'll give you even par at the
start of this tournament, will you take it? And all
but one out of about ten, and these are the
top players in the world. Said yeah, so that gives
you some kind of indication about the test that this
golf course provides. So much talk about the rough, you know,
(17:15):
just thick thick ruff. You get in it, you lose
your ball, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to lose your caddy.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, well you know that in some places maybe maybe
might be that bad. But to your point, you know,
I suppose you don't want to see people floundering and
you know, shooting all kinds of massive numbers. But these
players are so good we want to see them tested.
This is a major championship. They need to be tested,
and the US Open certain doesn't shy away from that.
And this course is the you know, it's the US
(17:42):
Open test on steroids.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Really it's not about power, it's about accuracy, and we
do love that. Looking forward to another sleepless weeknd. This
just keeps going.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
On and continues as the way he's been going.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I'm not going to all I'm saying, that's quite late.
You just get up. Oh I don't know, Clay Wilson,
get back there and start putting your dossa together about
all blacks that we might retain it next year and
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It'd be Hi there and welcome on into the Sports Fix.
You're a home of all you need to know and
bite sized chunks in the wonderful wide world of sports.
My name is Darcy Walgo. It is Wednesday, the eleventh
of June twenty twenty five, and in this podcast we
(00:36):
bring to you mister Ryan Fox, without a doubt, the
form golfer of the last couple of months, well maybe
three weeks in the PGA Espur. He's got lots to say.
He loves the yarn. Ryan Fox. Just around the corner.
After that, I get to use this platform in a
really selfish manner. I get to say I told you so.
(00:59):
Because it's podcast, you can't respond. And to end things,
we've got Clay Wilson joining us in the chamber is
the director of Sports News at Newstalk z B. That's
all lined up for you coming up in the next
firthday minutes or so, in association with as always JJ
Gardner Holmes, New Zealand's most trusted home builders. Let's do this.
(01:23):
In other news, don't odd of crag. In some short
pro from the Sporting Newsmakers, All Blacks winger Caleb Clark
has committed to New Zealand right been to the end
of twenty twenty seven because output doesn't quite stand up
to last year's efforts. It's a place he wants to
climb back into.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
I compare my game so last year.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think last year I'm touching the ball maybe fifteen
sixteen times.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Let's year it's like five or six.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So I'm just trying to get her on the ball
more and be more of an option and yet just
have that enjoyment again.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
The All Whots got beaten this morning by Ukraine two one.
That was the final score, and midfielder Joe Bell offered
this at games end, really.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Important for us to take that scorting.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
That's a really good op possession and we.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Had that in these two games. Obviously got a little
bit appointed.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
With the second result here, but I think we've taken
some really good stats.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
For us, so we're happy with that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
He said. Steps forward, not learnings of the Joe and
Ryan Fox has had eight month to remember on the
PGA he's overcome injury to assesst his advance up the
game's rankings. He's avoided the doctor's revolved as well.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
With a happen Inrew last year, and I was really
struggling golfs and wise and I basically got told you
sort yourself out or you were staring down the bow
of surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Es obviously, but to make a change when you've got
a gun pointed to your.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Head like that, there's a few shorty sporty sounds for
your use. And Avidion It's Sportsfix with Dancy Waldegrave. I
spent most of last week telling the listeners, telling anyone
who'd listened, telling my colleagues in the sport department that
they should stop having a winge about the nature of
(03:05):
Super rugby. All the talk last week was around and
how it's gross, the unfair. We know what's going to happen.
Some of these games are dead rubbers. How could they
possibly organize something like this? This is a disaster. What
I expect was it was a cork off the bottle
of discontent. People love to have a winge about Super rugby,
(03:27):
and so far this season you can't because the competition
has been exceptional right from the get go. This has
been the vibrant type of super rugby that we have
all longed for over so many years. But of course
the first chance for people to complain you know what,
we're like, man, you're like they climbed on board straight
(03:49):
away and laiden to the format. As I went to
great pains to point out, this is not Super Rugby
Pacific's fault. This was because the Melbourne Rebels died. They
had to change the format, they dropped one team, They
did the best they possibly could and let's face it,
without the Rebels, even though that was an interference, come
(04:13):
the Corterrish Finals time and made the competition so much better.
It concentrated the talent. Sohead of the weekend, I'm tired
of the morning. I kept on telling people, you don't
know what's going to happen. Stop being so presumptuous around results,
because of one thing we've learned from Super Roman Pacific
(04:33):
this year. It is not predictable. Sure as eggs what happened,
The results didn't go the way people thought they would.
Are so called dead rubber in the last game of
the quarterish finals. It wasn't and we know it wasn't
because the hurricanes are still licking their wounds. So be
(04:55):
careful before you start teeing off on a competition thinking
you know it's going to be predictable, because in sport,
it never is. Dissecting the sporting agenda. It's Sportsfix with
Darcy Wildegrave. He Sound's number one golfer Ryan Fox that
joins us now after a phenomenal couple of weeks on
(05:18):
the PGA, Ryan, I gotta ask, have you spen any
time sitting down and caring and absorbing in what's happened
to you over the last few weeks.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
No, definitely, not at a week off after the PGA,
which kind of let a little bit of Myrtle beach maybe,
But yeah, the last week, I don't know, I mean
it was it was crazy, especially the finishes in both playoffs. Yeah,
I don't know if I'll ever quite figure out what happened,
but yeah, it's it's been a life changing month, to
be honest, And that's probably the only way I could
(05:52):
describe it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
In life changing because of where you set your position
in the world of golf, because of the money that's
turned up, or the opportunities that have opened for you.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, it's it's more the more the latter part of
that than anything.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I mean, it's it's having some security over here for
a few years now, you know, getting into some the
big events. Obviously, I played my way into two majors
in the last month as last minute Charlie, you know,
playing some of the signature events now, you know, looking
really good for the for the playoffs this year and
into some some big events again for next year, if
(06:28):
I can, you know Cement being in that top fifty
at the end of the year. So it's yeah, it's
changed everything PG tool wise. It's changed our lives of
family immensely. You know, having that security and being able
to make decisions on our future with certainty is you know,
a big change from what it's been the.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
Last couple of years, that's for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So yeah, it's life changing, as I said, was the
best way to describe it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
What about the media, Ryan, I mean, you like your
old man Grant, you love a good yarn and you're
always very open to talking to the media, but i'd
suggest over the last few weeks a little harder to
deal with. It's getting pretty intense.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, look, I mean it's it's all I do
love a chat like the old man, and you know,
the New Zealand media always fantastic. And you know, I've
got personal personal relationships with a lot of people, including yourself,
which is great. There's certainly been a few extra requests
this week that have come in, and you know, a
couple via my manager and he's had to play bad
cop a couple of times, you know, kind of staying fox.
(07:29):
So you've got a major to prepare for. You need
to rest, chill out, and yeah, it's it's been a
bit crazy. Probably the craziest thing is trying to apply
to all the texts and everything else that has come through.
Didn't realize so many people had my phone number, to
be honest, so it's it's look all good problems to have,
to be honest. It's it can get pretty lonely when
things are going there the wrong way and you're struggling
(07:50):
and no one really thinks about your worries about you.
But you know, when you're getting a bunch of messages
and interview requests and all that stuff, it means you're
doing something right.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Coping tools, Ryan, what have you got in your quiver
to deal with this? Because the more you advance up
the ranking, the more majors you compete in, the bigger
the pressure is going to be on you. This is
not golf. This is the the horsepower up stairs. This
is your head space. What are you seeking in order
(08:23):
to deal with this?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
I've worked with a sports site for a long time
go called Carl Morris, and you know that's more on
the golf course stuff. But I've never really had an
off an issue with the off the golf course stuff,
you know, apart from maybe I've got to be a
bit better at saying no and being being a bit
selfish in a way. And you know, obviously I've got
a young family as well, and I've I've got to
give them a bunch of time, you know, and you know,
(08:46):
not be not be very selfish in that way. So yeah,
it's it's at learning curve. You know.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
I probably had a little bit of it a couple
of years ago with that.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Great run I had in Europe and then winning it
went Worth and stuff like that. So there was a
there was a pretty big uptick there, you know, with
with the off course responsibilities and sort of the newfound fame.
I guess a little bit if you want to put
it that way. And I probably didn't realize how big
all of that was until like I got home at
(09:17):
the end of the year and there was a whole
lot more pressure on my time in that regard.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
And I'm sure it's going to be be the same
this year.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
You know, when I when I eventually get home at
the end of the years, I'm going to get pulled
in a bunch of different directions. And I said, as
I said, I've just got to be a bit better
at saying no. And you know, it's it's just a
product of what it is. Like I'm a I'm a
father and a husband first and I'm a goal for second.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And you know it's.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Uh, as I said, they're good problems to have as well,
and I just got to find a nice balance with it.
And you know, if I do have to chat to someone,
I think probably someone in my family's got some pretty
good experience of of how to deal with that kind
of stuff as well, so I can lean on Dad
a little bit there, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
So I'm sure I'll figure it out going forward.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
The Chamber is now in session on Sports Fix that's
at the Chamber now. Clay Wilson Sports news rectail from
News Talk z B has given us some of his
valuable time to come into the chamber and between dealing
with rosters, journalists on of course sports news as well.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
It doesn't earth to do that most days, does he
so good to be here as always.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
And used today that Caleb Clark has decided he's going
to stick around. You're gonna stick around for another couple
of years for Auckland, for Blues and more importantly the
All Blacks. This has been a crazy last couple of
months because we've had some players leaving. Well, we've had
some key players staying as well. You've got to give
credit right to the union.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Yeah, because there's been so much discussion for quite a
while now, hasn't thereabouts what a New Zealand rag we're
going to do with the eligibility issue. Are they going
to open it up? Are they going to let players
play overseas? How are they going to deal with these
big cashed up clubs in Japan and Europe and keep
our best talent here in the country. And of course
(11:02):
we have had some go in a Richard Mwanga has
been a prime example in recent years. But you get
Damian McKenzie. Now you get Caleb Clark, and like you say,
there's others that aren't come into my mind right now,
but a lot of our top talent players that are
going to start and the All Blacks will be very
close to it choosing to re sign and stay around.
(11:23):
So I guess yeah, New Zealand Rugby has a bit
more flexibility with sabbaticals and the likes now Rico Yuani
has resigned, He's obviously got a sabbatical, but they're doing
well and it just goes to show that the lure
of the All Black jersey a World Cup coming up
in twenty twenty seven, that helps as well.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
Right, And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Maybe Scott Robertson has a factor in this for some
of these players. They like what he's doing, They want
to see more, they want to be part of that team.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Well that they've had good super seasons and they know
it's a World Cup, so now they've set the stall out.
Robertson's had a year to go, oh what am I
doing here? Howses happening? So potential is huge and the
whole All Black jujus. This is something the Union have
gone on about for years, the lure of the jersey
and it's still there. Yeah, it's definitely still there.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
And you look at someone like Caleb Clark and we
have a list here in one of our files in
our sports team with contracted all blacks and who is
who is off contract when and how long they're on
contract for. And Caleb Clark was one of those names
on our twenty twenty five list that always jumped out
every time I went back and looked and looked at
it throughout this year. So to see him resign, you know,
(12:35):
that's a that's a massive cup for New Zealand rugby
because you look at someone like him, not just how
good he is, but what type of player he is.
He loves rugby league, that's been talking about him sniffing
around rugby league. He trained with the Rabbit Oz was
it last year of.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
The year before.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
So at his age, you know, we saw Mark to
Leah go at some well a little bit older, but
still that kind of mid to late twenties kind of age.
So to get him to be able to stay, it's
a pretty pretty big effort for New Zealand rugby and
one I'm sure not only them, but you know, for
the Blues as well. To get a guy like that
and know he's going to be around you know, big
(13:11):
Auckland guys loyal to the Blues in Auckland and his old.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Man had something to say about it as well. You're
not going to say, oh, Dad, actually don't know what
you're talking about. You're going to give him due reverence.
Speaker 4 (13:22):
Yes, definitely, and you know, not only a great rugby player,
but also you know, one of rugby's really great characters
are nice guys to deal with. So from our perspective,
that's great because he's he speaks so well and he's
such a lovely bloke to deal with, and you combine
that with he's just an absolute powerhouse on the Field's
a freak with just and you know, with great skills,
(13:44):
so athletic. So you know, a great news for everyone
I think involved in terms of rugby in this country.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Has anyone told Lester Nukel well that you go?
Speaker 4 (13:53):
But that's good as well, right because he he's going
to come back and that competition heats up again. So
I don't know, it comes in waves, these signings and
players going off shore, doesn't it. You do lose some,
but you know, probably a year eighteen months ago. We
were very hot on they need to change or are
they going to change their eligibility rules? And now you
(14:14):
get all these resignings and you say wow, like you say,
the lure of the jersey, maybe it's still there.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
These players want to stay. Let's talk golf. Just had
a chat with Ryan Fox. That guy loves a yarn.
He's one of.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The just talking about good guys.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
He's definitely on that so good.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Funny in the interview saying they should learn to say no.
He can't help himself. So many people have got his
phone number. But let's talk about the golf itself. He's
got some really odd tea off times between rounds one
and two. If you take it on a day, how
we watch it. It's in less than a day. He
finishes one round and starts the other. It's a monstrous
(14:52):
sole way to get into things. Yeah, it is.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
And of course, the way these golf tournaments work, being
four rounds with a cut after two, you either get
an early start and then a later start the next
day or the opposite. And he's got the second of
those two. He's got a late start on the first
day and then an early start the next day, So
I guess it's a bit of a toss of a
coin in terms of what you get with weather. Obviously
(15:14):
you want to have calmer conditions potentially to play in.
So who knows how it kind of plays out for him,
But we know he's a fast player. He likes to
play fast, so certainly on that second day, starting so early,
we'll suit him getting out early and getting ahead of
the kind of pack. But that's probably not going to
be as big as worry, I think with this tournament,
because we're.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Going to talk about the course.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
That's it. That's the monster here is and it's not
the other players. It's not his game. It's the thing
that he's playing on. And everybody you talk to they
don't like it. But this is what we need. These
are professors, These are the best of the world. The
US Open is renowned for having absolute monstrous tracks to
play on, as it should be. It makes me realize
(15:59):
that these people are human.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
They play like us of push Yeah, and you know,
I think about sport at the highest level, and you know,
talk about our national game rugby. We get the All
Black cause they get into these brutal games against South
Africa against France, against England against Australia, and these players
are pushed to the brink physically, their skills are tested,
and you get the feeling, or at least the perception
sometimes in golf that these guys are so good. They
(16:22):
play kind of robotic PlayStation golf on some of these courses,
shoot fifteen, twenty, twenty five hundred to win a tournament,
and you're sitting there thinking, man, it looks and of
course it's not easy, but it looks so easy, right,
And as an entertainment product, you want to see these
players tested. And the US Open is renowned, isn't it
for throwing up these courses and saying, go and shoot
(16:43):
under par?
Speaker 1 (16:44):
I dare you kind of thing?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
Michael Campbell did it twenty years ago. He was the
only guy who at four rounds under par he won
the championship. Now and that is rough, That is tough.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (16:55):
Well, and I actually saw something earlier today speaking to
that Underpathing with a whole bunch of top players, and
they were asked, we'll give you even par at the
start of this tournament, will you take it? And all
but one out of about ten, and these are the
top players in the world. Said yeah, so that gives
you some kind of indication about the test that this
golf course provides. So much talk about the rough, you know,
(17:15):
just thick thick ruff. You get in it, you lose
your ball, you're.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Trying to lose your caddy.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, well you know that in some places maybe maybe
might be that bad. But to your point, you know,
I suppose you don't want to see people floundering and
you know, shooting all kinds of massive numbers. But these
players are so good we want to see them tested.
This is a major championship. They need to be tested,
and the US Open certain doesn't shy away from that.
And this course is the you know, it's the US
(17:42):
Open test on steroids.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Really it's not about power, it's about accuracy, and we
do love that. Looking forward to another sleepless weeknd. This
just keeps going.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
On and continues as the way he's been going.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I'm not going to all I'm saying, that's quite late.
You just get up. Oh I don't know, Clay Wilson,
get back there and start putting your dossa together about
all blacks that we might retain it next year and
we'll catch you again seeing thanks for your time. This
is Sportsfix, your daily dose of sports news how in
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(18:17):
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