D'Arcy Waldegrave: Sportstalk host on Ryan Fox's string of golfing successes

Golfer Ryan Fox is refusing to buy too much into his victories at Myrtle Beach and Toronto as an indicator for potential US Open success.

Four of the last five PGA Tour tournaments have been won by Fox or three-time major winner Scottie Scheffler.

Sportstalk host D'Arcy Waldegrave explains further.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Darcy water Grave sports stook hosters a mea does Heather
to plusy Allen. You've got Ryan Fox on tonight. Yeah,
Ryan Fox, who's just had the most wild few weeks.
I don't think he's even had a chance to breathe,
I really don't. It's so much going on. I've got
to win this tournament to get into the next major. Hope.
I'll just do that by chipping it off the green,

(00:21):
gets in there, does reasonably well, comes back, It's got
another tournament. You win that. He clips his ticket for
endless money and sponsorship and more entries through the PGA,
so we can secure the future for himself and his family.
What does he do? Plays what he said was the
best job he's ever played in golf when he stuck

(00:41):
that ridiculous tone and something met at three wood right
on the side of the green over water and then
walks off of the prize and it was like such
a big playoff. He did so well. Now he's going
because he's off to Oakland, which is arguably the monster
of all golf courses for the US Open. Has he

(01:01):
and his family relocated to the US Florida, So the
family lives there with him as well. Yeah, oh that's nice. Well,
they're really hard for her because if there's no surety
in your future, what do you do around kids? Education,
what do you do around the continuity of life? Making friends?
All of those things? And I think we separate the

(01:23):
golfer from the bloke like all of us. How much
he's got kids, and he's got a wife, and he's
got all those other exterior things we don't see on them.
And it's so important in any professionals. Lit Hey, but
how much time if the family is based in Florida,
how much time would he actually spend with them as
opposed to being out on the road playing golf. Well recently, none,

(01:45):
that's sure. Actually when they did that when they moved
to Florida. It might just be really recently, but the
family have been with them around. But now it's like, Okay,
I'm on the Pchad Tour, I've got my exemption, I'm
playing major golf. Can calm down. I've made five million
dollars in the last couple of weeks. We're okay to
get it, Nanny, We're going to be all right. So

(02:07):
that side of things. And look, Ryan, I recorded this
this morning. I got up at early for me anyway,
got a message going, man, I can't do eleven thirty.
Can we big a bit earlier or a bit later?
Oka years? So you got the recording in and did
it by remote sitting on the couch. He is just
the most approachable, lovely guy. He's one of the great

(02:30):
examples of a New Zealander on the international sporting circuit
that hasn't climbed up the back of his own You
know what I'm saying. He hasn't changed. I've been talking
I don't know how long I've been talking to Ryan
Fox now hasn't changed. Loves the yard, loves the red wine.
He's had to cut some of the diet down. You
lose some weight. Why because he had hip injury last

(02:52):
year from playing golf. Yeah, and basically his doctor, well,
it's a repetitive strain your goal turning and moving. Oh yeah,
so bad for me. Yeah, so that's why I can't
play with my knee. I mean, it's destroyed my career.
But doctor said, look, if you don't change something, we're
going to have to go and do surgery. We're going

(03:13):
to have to actually cut you open. So what do
you say now, and this quote to me this morning
was Yeah, a little easier to do when you got
someone holding a gun to your head. Yeah, well, maybe
phoebe more exercising. You know. I'm not going to go
and cut suspensions on his diet, but he did say
that the food in Americas makes it pretty easy to

(03:33):
get those portions. Ah. I still am fizzing about it.
And it's been years and it's something interesting about the
food and AUSTRM too. A lot of it's very very soft.
So what it does this the little soft food that
you eat can get your pooping, well not not that,
but it doesn't trigger your body's process which gone a

(03:54):
lot of masticating, a lot of chilly. Yeah, it sees
you've been eating when you basically just inhale food, your
body doesn't you've had anything, so seas you need more
so you keep eating processed rubbish. Oh yes, yeah, it
goes on and on, very smooth. Yeah, thank you, Okay,
dars let's what a what a treasure? John Norman out
of England joins us right late in the piece because

(04:14):
World Test Championship starts tonight. Good stuff all okay, Darcy
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