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June 30, 2025 11 mins

It’s been a dream couple of months for Ryan Fox. 

In May, the Kiwi golfer won the Myrtle Beach Classic, claiming his first PGA Tour win.  

From there he made the cut for the PGA Championship, won his second Tour event at the Canadian Open, before making the cut for the US Open.  

He’ll soon be heading to the UK for the Scottish Open and Open Championship, taking a week’s break ahead of the tournament. 

“It’s been a crazy couple of months,” Fox told Mike Hosking. 

“Going from trying to figure out where we’re gonna play gold, or where I was going to play golf next year, where we’re going to live as a family, to, yeah, being on the PGA Tour for a few more years now, and having a couple of wins and playing my way into the big events.”  

He says he’s still trying to come to terms with it all, but it’s what he’s always dreamed of doing. 

“It’s pretty cool.” 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What a dream run it has been this year since
we last said Ryan Fox on the show, Winning gets Winning,
which is what's happening Middle Beach Canadian Open. Makes him
one of only a handful of people who have won
multiple times on the PGA this year. Is on a
short break before he hits to the UK. Got the
Scottish Open ahead of the Open itself, which is nil
and anyway, we'll detail that in the moment. Ryan Fox

(00:22):
is with us. Morning Morning, Mike. I don't think we've
talked since you've been so fantastically successful. Is that still
sitting lightly on your shoulders? And life is feeling good?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Life is feeling very good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It's been a pretty crazy couple of months, to be honest,
going from trying to figure out where we're going to
play gold Well, where I was going to play golf
next year, where we're going to live as a family,
to you being on the PGA Tour for a few
more years now and having a couple of wins and
playing my way into the big events. It's been just
a bit crazy, really and still trying to come to

(00:55):
terms with it. But it's kind of what I've always
dreamed of wanting to do, so it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
And watching you and your family are there and they're
at the course, and we heard the story about the
you know, the bunkers and all of that sort of stuff.
What is life like with a family on the road.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's good to be honest.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
I mean, you know, taking two kids around on airplanes
the whole time can be a little bit tedious, especially
young ones. But you know, the tour's got great childcare.
You know that they for the most part, they don't
The kids don't know any better. They used to used
to traveling and used to not being in a routine,
so they kind of manage that pretty well for the

(01:33):
most part, kind of get excited when they go to
different houses that might have some new toys that they
can play with for a week.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
So yeah, it's it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
You know, I wouldn't recommend dragging them around every week
like we did last year. That was a little bit tough.
But you know, having a base in Florida this year
where we can kind of pick and choose what tournaments
the family come to, has made everything a lot easier
in that regard.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Is so you've got to four and two four year old,
does she get it? In any way, shape or form,
do you think or not?

Speaker 3 (02:02):
Really, I think she's starting to. You know, after the
win in Canada, she she comes up and goes, Daddy,
did you win? And do you get the trophy? And
it was like, yep, I did. That's so I think.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
There's a little bit of understanding there. Now.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
You know, she definitely understands that Dad does golf as
a job, and you know, she's not too disappointed when
I go to golf. Now she knows it's what I
have to do. But you know, I don't think there's
a there's a comprehension of you know, dad plays on
the PGA Tour or what the PGA Tour is, and
you know Dad's on TV every now and again. But yeah,
she's she's definitely understands that golf is what I do,

(02:41):
at least now, which is which is kind of cool.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I'm interested to hear you say that the PGA are
good at childcare. So that's that's a thing that they've
worked on.

Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yes, Yes, so they have child care on a Wednesday
through Sunday. You kind of put your kids in for
about six hours a day, and you know they do
lots of activities. I think the older kids tend to
do tend to do a bit of learning. You know,
my daughter's just learning the letters and how to write

(03:10):
and stuff like that, so she's done lots of that.
They do obviously, lots of fun stuff, lots of craft activities,
and you know, the tour generally gets in you know,
various different activities for them to do during the week.
You know, one day they might have a magician come in,
they might have a visit from a from an animal,

(03:32):
animal farm or something like that. You know, we've had
tournaments where they've had like kids' activities at the zoo
where we can take them to the zoo and have
dinner and go and feed the animals after hours and
stuff like that. So the tour does a really good
job of getting families involved because you know, obviously a
lot of us do have families out there, and it
can be pretty lonely traveling by yourself, so you know,

(03:54):
they want to include the families as much as possible.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Does that camaraderie go to the whole tour is everybody
sought have in the same boat and therefore sort of
friendly or therees somewhere. The competition come in there and
will need to be a little bit more distant with
each other.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Everyone's really nice. You know.

Speaker 3 (04:10):
It can be hard to make close friends out on
tour because everyone kind of has their own little groups.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know, everyone's got managers and trainers and.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Caddies and whatever, so everyone is a bit isolated in
that regard. But everyone's really nice. You know, there's there's
an understanding that everyone's doing the same thing. You know,
a lot of my wife tends to hang out with
a lot of the.

Speaker 2 (04:35):
Foreign players wives.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
There's there's kind of some camaraderie there around you know,
being away from home and traveling, and a lot of
them have young kids as well, so there's a lot
of bonding over that.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And you know, we have dinner with.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
With them with you know, other other players and their
families during the week, and you know, catch up with
them for little playdates with the kids and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
So it's pretty good for the most part.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
What are you going to do big picture? I don't
I don't want to turn this into a parenting session,
but what are you going to do a big picture
with the kids? Education, school, all of that sort of stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:03):
Long term, we're trying to figure that out. To be honest,
you know, with being over here for a few years now,
schooling systems a little bit different. Our oldest wouldn't start
school in America until like August twenty seven, whereas she'd
start she starts school in February if she was in

(05:24):
New Zealand. So we've got a little bit to figure
out there, you know, talking to schools at home and
seeing if we can maybe do a couple of terms
at school in New Zealand, and you know, do do
a couple of terms where she's home, where our oldest
is homeschooled on the road.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
So yeah, we've got a little bit to figure out.

Speaker 3 (05:43):
But at least, you know, after you know, the success
of the last couple of months, we can make those
decisions with certainty going forward, which it makes it easier.
It's still not easy, but yeah, it's there's there's options there.

Speaker 1 (05:56):
At least is that exciting? The ability to be I mean,
you can presumably be anywhere in the world you want
to be as a base. If you have to have
a base, you could be anywhere, couldn't you pretty much?

Speaker 3 (06:07):
I mean, obviously being playing in the US tour, it
makes sense to be based in the us. So we're
going to be based in Florida just you know, looking
at houses now basically, and we'll have a able to
buy a house over here and be based here long term.
We still want to come back to New Zealand. New
Zealand's always going to be home, you know in the

(06:27):
off season where you know a lot of people tend
to head to the southern states, you know, like Florida,
where we are to get away from the weather. We
will do the opposite, will come home and try to
enjoy a bit of a New Zealand summer. But yeah,
it's New Zealand's probably the only place I can't really
be based at full time for what we do. Like
that just makes it travel too hard and I'll be

(06:48):
away from home too much.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
Of the families at home.

Speaker 3 (06:50):
But you know, it is nice to be able to
be based overseas in that regard, and you know, try
to find a little bit of our home away from
home exactly.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Last time we talked about your success actually, and I
asked you about the money, and you said, look, it's
not all about the money. But I'll tell you what
we've learned from what you've gone through this last couple
of months. Of course, is that success brings choice, doesn't it,
And that's what it's now allowing you.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yes, it is, and I mean, you know, we're looking
at houses here with no real issue around what we're
trying to do. You know, obviously we're still got a
budget and all of that, but it makes everything just
a lot easier in that regard, and you know, fitting
out a house, all of that stuff just becomes easier.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
You know, potentially, if we're going to do schooling.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
For the kids, we can look at a tutor or
something like that a couple of times a week, and
all of that stuff hopefully makes my life easier on
the golf course and can help performance, And as you said,
it gives you options that, you know, we can do
stuff with the success I've had, rather than trying to

(07:57):
do it bear bones, which you know, I certainly went
through that early early in my career and it was
great and it was a great pathway to get where
I'm at. But you've also got to enjoy, you know
that the rewards you get from the success as well.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I think that's one of life's lessons, isn't it, Because
unless you've had tough times, you can't enjoy the good times.
If they were always good times, you don't know any different,
do you.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
No, you don't. You definitely don't appreciate them. And yeah,
as I said, we've had the tough times where I
felt like I wasn't going to play golf, I wasn't
enjoying it, and you know, money was tough, and you know,
you scrape in the bottom of a barrel, staying in
terrible hotel rooms around random areas of Europe, playing on
the Challenge Tour, and you know, now we're kind of
at the opposite end of that, which is really cool.

(08:39):
But you know, I've also worked pretty hard to get
to this point. So yeah, it's nice to be able
to appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
I know, if I asked you going into a tournament,
you would go, you know, you're there to win. I
get all of that. But given that you are winning,
do you reset your mindset?

Speaker 2 (08:56):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (08:56):
I think that's something I have to do going forward.
I've achieved a couple of dreams, not just goals I
had written down. You know, it was a dream to
win on the PGA Tour, and you know, I think
I've probably struggled without a couple of years ago when
I had a really good year in twenty two and
going into twenty three, I didn't reset and kind of.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Lost the motivation a little bit there.

Speaker 3 (09:20):
So I think at the end of the year, when
everything calms down a little bit, it'll be time to
actually sit down and go, Okay, well what do I
want to achieve now going forward? And those are those
kind of goals give you the motivation to keep working hard,
to keep doing what you want, you know, keep trying
to achieve things, and you know that's certainly something I

(09:41):
need to do going forward, But at the moment it's
sort of haven't had a chance to do that. It's
just go in and go to every tournament. No, I
feel like I'm playing really well still and just go that.
I know my good goalf is competitive and that's the
goal every week to be competitive and be up there
on a Sunday afternoon fantastic.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
Next up is the UK and eventually the Open itself.
I looked chat GBT told me you twenty nineteen lowest
back nine at twenty nine at port Rush.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
You remember that, Yes, yes, I got whisked off the
golf course my first round.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
I'd missed seven cuts in a row leading into that,
and had to do a bunch of interviews. I'm like,
why is everyone going crazy?

Speaker 3 (10:22):
And it was the lowest nine, lowest back nine in
open history ever, which I think I still hold, which
is kind of a random little piece of golfing history.
And yes, I mean that I scraped by to make
the cut and actually had a pretty good weekend finished sixteenth,
but it was it shows how stupid golf is, you know,
I've missed seven cuts in a row and all of

(10:43):
a sudden, shoot will break one hundred and something year
old record. Yeah, it's It's a golf course I really
like at Port Rush, and I'm looking forward to going back.
But yeah, twenty nineteen was just a weird week all round.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
Imagine winning a major A.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, obviously that's that's on the dream list as well,
you know, and obviously what's happened the last, you know,
last eight weeks. I felt out my game's in pretty
good shape to be able to do it. There's also
one hundred and fifty other guys in the field that
are pretty damn good and trying to do the same things.
So you know, as I said a couple of questions ago,

(11:21):
you know, the goal is to get myself in contention
come Sunday afternoon and kind of anything can happen there,
and yeah, we'll see. I'm looking forward to the next
couple of weeks. I love links, golf, I love that
part of the world up in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
So yeah, it'll it's going to be a good couple
of weeks.

Speaker 1 (11:38):
Well, I hope so. And we'll be following as always.
Good to catch up with you. I appreciate it very much.
Ryan Fox out of Florida this morning. For more from
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