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July 20, 2026 12 mins

Weary from a sleepless night of celebrations, golfer Ryan Fox is still coming to grips with his Open Championship victory. 

Fox has joined Michael Campbell, Sir Bob Charles, and Dame Lydia Ko in winning a golf major, holding his nerve to win The Open at Royal Birkdale and pocketing $5.5 million. 

He has returned to his Florida base, having hauled both the Claret Jug and a replica across the Atlantic as carry-on luggage. 

Fox told Mike Hosking his life is going to change pretty significantly over the next few months, and he probably doesn’t yet comprehend all the things that will come with being a major champion.  

He says it’ll probably be a bit daunting, as he’ll be facing a lot more scrutiny on the course than he’s been able to get away with in the last few years.  

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Sporting highlight of the year, of course, in the early

(00:01):
hours yesterday morning, the Ryan Fox victory at Royal Birkdale.
So let's get some insight into how the celebrations and
the history unfolded. He's landed back home. He's in Florida.
Ryan foxes with us. Good morning.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Morning, Mike Way. I don't actually know what it is
at the moment. I've been about three different time zones,
but it's all worth it.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Good on you. I bet you, I bet you it is.
Can I ask just the most random question because I
was told you live an hour and a half away
from the airport. As a bloke who travels so much,
why would you live an hour and a half away
from an airport?

Speaker 3 (00:30):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
There's an airport twenty minutes from us, but the easiest
travel to get.

Speaker 3 (00:36):
To the UK was going to Miami, which is about
an hour and a half away.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
So we've got West Palm Beach, which you can get
anywhere within the States about twenty minutes away, but it
makes the international stuff a little bit harder. So yeah,
it's there's a few international airports around. I would go
to Orlando, which is just under two hours, or Miami
or fort Water hour, which is about an hour.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
So we do have some options at.

Speaker 1 (00:59):
Least, and now iron once we've won the major, we
can start flying private, can't we.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
I've done a little bit of that already this year.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I'm not gonna lie, and I'll probably say there'll be
a little bit more of it going forward, which is
you know, a nice a nice problem to have, just y,
it does make life.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's a lot easier.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
You literally, you know, drive to the door of the plane,
chuck everything in the back, jump on, and you take off.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
And how the PGA tool works, there.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Is a car at the other end and literally that
car is right out the door of the plane. You
put everything in and drive off. No security, know nothing.
It does make everything easy. And you know, while it
is on the expensive side, you can understand why people
want to do it.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
It's just it makes air travel so easy.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Do you reckon You're in a different league now.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
I mean it would probably, I would say so.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
I don't feel like it, obviously, but I know that
my life is going to going to change pretty significantly
and the next a couple of months. You know, obviously
that it's the highlight of my career. The stuff that
comes with being a major champion. I probably don't even
comprehend yet, so I've got all of that.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
To figure out.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
It'll be probably a bit daunting, you know, or a
lot more scrutiny on the golf course than what I've
been able to get away with over the last few years.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
You know, It's it's.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Going to be strange turning up to majors now, being
in marquee groups and dealing with all of that, all
of that which comes, you know, playing with guys like
Rory and Scottie and various other guys in majors. So
that'll be a bit of a step up, something that
I have to get used to. But I felt like,
you know, it was a pretty good test of how
I deal with it yesterday, and I felt like I

(02:47):
dealt with it pretty well for the most part.

Speaker 1 (02:48):
One, I don't want to relitigate yesterday too much because
you you will have talked yourself dry with it. But
important to point out I think that that that was
that was a proper field that you beat them, and
Rory was there and d Chambeau was there, and you
beat them all, and that's of significance, isn't it.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yes, And I think the way it happened as well.
You know, it's a stronger Major, is the strongest field
in golf. You know, obviously there is some qualifiers and
stuff like that, but you know, the top most of
the top one hundred guys in the world played last week.
So to go out and beat those guys is incredibly satisfying.
And then to do it the way I did, you know,
birdie four of the last six holes. You know, I

(03:31):
feel like I did everything I needed to do under pressure.
You I'm not quite sure. So that last part how
I hit it. My hands were shaking. It was like
the most nerve wracking thing I've ever had to do,
but still managed to somehow pull it off. But get
to go out and actually take the golf course.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
On and win it and in that company in that
situation is incredibly satisfying.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
How clearly were you thinking because you hadn't had a
boodie on that particular hole, and therefore did you realize that,
rethink that, talk about that, or just how do you
switch your brain into that bit where you go to
your caddie, We're going to go win this thing.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
I said it to him on the tee to be honest,
there wasn't. Really, I wouldn't say there was a big
discussion on it. I just looked at him and said,
we're going to take this on Dinno. You know, I did, like,
I want to try to win the tournament and I'll
deal with the consequences if I stuff it up, basically,
and that was that was a discussion. He was fully

(04:36):
on board with that, And yeah, it was. I obviously
executed it exceptionally well, but it was kinde the same.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
I had a similar scenario on eighteen the day before.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Obviously I had a chance at history with a shooting.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
The lower score in a major.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I had it in that fairway bunker, and I had
had that shot. I took the shot on out of
the fairway bunker, and I almost my thinking there was,
if I take the shot on and make double, I'm
almost going to feel better about myself than if I
lay it up and make Bogie shoot sixty three, even
though sixty three would have been a better score.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Than sixty four.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
In my head, at least, you know, being aggressive always
feels the better option. And that was exactly how I
felt on that ad T yesterday. It was okay, Well,
if I take a tea shot on and I stuff
it up. Well, at least I've gone I'm being aggressive here.
I'm trying to win the tournament. Whereas if I had
laid back with an iron, it was a really hard

(05:35):
it's a really hard second shot if you lay back,
you know, it's a four iron into a really small target.
You're probably trying to just hit it on the green
and two part from forty foot to get in the playoff,
and you've probably got more chance of making bogie than
making par doing that anyway, And you know, I would
have definitely still it would have been a really great

(05:55):
week if I'd have done it that way. But there
were always would have been something in my head. It
would there would have been a what I like, what
if I'd have you know, been aggressive, you know, just
for one of the better terms, sacked up.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
And gave it a go. And I was really proud
that I actually did do that and then pulled it off.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
Have you got, by the way your jugs with you still?

Speaker 2 (06:21):
I do?

Speaker 3 (06:21):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I've got two of them, actually, the real one and
which I get to keep for a year and get
to return to St. Andrew's next year, which is pretty special,
and I've got a replica trophy which, as I think
about eighty five percent of the size, I haven't actually
opened that one. We just poured a lot of wine
into the actual parishield last night and had a bit

(06:42):
of fun with that.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
I should have asked you, what sort of knowing that
you like a glass of bread? What sort of shape
are you in as you speak to us this particular morning.

Speaker 2 (06:52):
I've been in better shape, to be honest, but it's
all worth it. We finished up about three o'clock yesterday morning,
and I had I had to pick up at four
fifteen to go to the airport in Manchester, which is.

Speaker 3 (07:06):
I just decided at that point I wasn't going to bed.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
It was just going to be easier to pull an
all nighter and hopefully get some sleep on the plane
from from London to Miami.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Which I kind of failed at as well.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
To be honest, every time I put my head down
my head was still spinning, not necessarily from the from
the alcohol, more from just what had fired over the
last twenty four hours or so.

Speaker 1 (07:27):
It's just amazing. I chatted to BT it your experience
at Birkdale is it seemed to indicate you hadn't been
there before, Is that correct?

Speaker 3 (07:36):
No, I played in twenty seventeen and missed the cut.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
So so fun. So two rounds there at plus the
four this time, six rounds and you're a champion.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, plus a couple of practice rounds obviously each time. Yeah,
it's it's crazy when you when you find it for
a week. Sometimes it doesn't matter what your history was
on a golf course. Obviously it helps if you like it.
But and I do like burbdo.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
I liked it. Last time I played, I.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
Just didn't play very well, and then this time, yeah,
I found something on Friday. I played really good on
Friday and then obviously played potentially one of the best
rounds of golf I've ever played on Saturday. And you
can probably say the same thing on Sunday, to.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Be honest, exactly. The Manda trees are gone. I don't
want to get in the weeds of the tour, but
you don't have to do a bunch of stuff you
used to have to do. I know you pulled out
of the next tournament because you want to rest. I
get all of that. But the exemptions this the I mean,
you know, the exemptions must be amazing.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, so I've got five years. This is I was
told this last night. My memory of it's a little
bit hazy, but I think I've got five years into
every major coming up, which is pretty incredible the players
as well. I've got five years on the PJ Tour,
so I don't know how that's going to sit with
all the changes coming not next year but in twenty eight.

(08:58):
But I can only imagine having a major championship under
my bolo. It's going to be pretty good for that
going forward, and then I'll have full status again on
the DP World Tour for another at least five years.
I'm not sure how long a major is for deep
world tours, so look at it makes it. In some ways,

(09:21):
it makes my life a lot more difficult and a
lot more stressful with all the extracrutiny and all the
other commitments of stuff I'll have to do. But in
lots of other ways it makes my life a lot easier.
I know I can plan everything basically for the next
five years almost, which.

Speaker 3 (09:35):
Is a great position to be in golf. Like that
doesn't happen very often.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
Last time we talked to you post those PGA things,
we talked a bit about your life and you know,
you have Florida and kids in school and all those
sort of things where things have now changed. This changes
it again, doesn't it to a completely different level?

Speaker 3 (09:55):
It does?

Speaker 2 (09:56):
You know, I still probably don't understand or know what's
what's coming in that regard. I've probably got an idea
of what's coming in terms of golf, but no idea
how it affects off the golf course yet and some
of the opportunities that arise and all the extra stuff
that I'm going to have to do. But like where

(10:19):
it makes us committed in the States now for the
next five years, which is you know, that's that's pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (10:26):
You know, it does. I don't think it.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
Will change where we live or what we do. I
think we're pretty happy with with all of that.

Speaker 3 (10:33):
But it does.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
It just does open a lot of doors going forward,
and you know, kind of look.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Forward to seeing what some of those doors.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Are to be honest, I don't even know, and I
don't even know where to start.

Speaker 1 (10:48):
Thinking, Well, you got time to take care of that.
So the way it ended the final is that the
ideal way to end a tournament being in the final
pair with a shot too when it's all on you.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yes, I mean it's yeah. I don't think there's a
better way to win a golf down its dirty. The
last I think my caddy Dean put it to me
the best way anyone put it.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
This is pretty late on in the evening last night,
and he said, Foxy, you you might only get one
one part to win a major in your life. And
yet it made that's pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Like to be able to do that and say that
I've done that as incredible, I'm not quite.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Sure in the moment.

Speaker 2 (11:37):
I you know, everything's all over the place, The nerves
are there, like it feels hard to just take the
putter back and somehow not even make contact with the
ball and yet to say it come off and go
where I aimed and what I saw and go in
y is pretty incredible. And I'm not one normally that
lets out a lot of emotion, but it all came

(11:59):
out there.

Speaker 1 (11:59):
Which one mate, obviously, maybe you must have some indication
of just how wonderful it was here and how much
we enjoyed it, and how proud of you we are,
and what a day it was for us, And so
therefore yours was exponentially better, but wonderful. Warmest congratulations, fabulous
to catch up. Go well and we'll talk again soon.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
Thanks a lot, Mike, and I'm definitely looking forward to
bringing the Claric jug back home sometimes.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
So it'll be amazing. Good on you Man't go well,
Ryan Fox literally on his way home from the airport
to his home in Florida, the Open Champion. For more
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