May 12, 2025 • 42 mins
Jason Pine returns to recap a full day in the world of sport! Highlights for tonight include:
Ryan Fox celebrating his first his PGA Tour win.
Kiwi golf icon Greg Turner on Ryan Fox's win.
Tall Blacks captain Reuben Te Rangi on the team's win over Australia.
Piney's power rankings!
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Call to Good Evening and welcome and some Monday night
sports talk on News Talks EDB. May twelve. The late
great Joon Olomu born on this day, nineteen seventy five.
He would have been fifty today. Jonah, he was twenty
when he did this.
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I'm Jason Pine Show producer is Andy McDonald. We're here
to late talking sport with you. What a day for
Ryan Fox's.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Given it a Ryan Ryan Fox fantastic Oh ho alcherny
Ben the first playoff.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hole a winner for the first time on the PGA
Tour with his victory in a three ways sudden death
playoff at the Myrtle Classic. How significant is this? Ryan Fox?
Standing by a chat to us Kee we golf legend
Greg Turner as well and your thoughts too. As a
ninth key we Mail wins on the PGA Tour other
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matters around tonight, the Tall Blacks have earned a rare
basketball went over Australia they won one O six ninety
seven and Hamilton yesterday. Captain Rubert d Angie is with
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Speaker 1 (02:08):
We've got the breakdown on Sports Talk.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Ryan Fox has become the ninth New Zealand male golfer
to win on the USPGA Tour, only in.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
The first cut.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It's all about is that longer rough going defect his
back swing?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's given it a Ryan Ryan Fox. Fantastic hollol Bernie
been the first playoff hole.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That is incredible.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I knew he wanted to be aggressive, but to hit
a perfect chip like that at your biggest moment in
professional golf.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
How about Ryan Fox. That is a amazing shot. Amazing shot. Indeed,
Ryan Fox chipping in for Bertie on the first hole
of a three way sudden death playoff to win the
Myrtle Beach Classic. He joins Sir Bob Charles, Michael Kemble,
John Lister, Grant Wait, Frank Nobolo, Phili Craig Perks, and
Danny Lee as Kiwi mails to have won a PGA
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to event. Danny Lee was the most recent when he
won the Greenbrier Classic in twenty fifteen. That is until today.
The victory earns Ryan Fox a two year PGA Tour exemption,
automatic entry into this week's second major of the year,
the PGA Championship, and prize money of one point two
million New Zealand dollars. Ryan Fox is with us on
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news talks. He be congratulations.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How are you feeling a few hours after winning on
the PGA Tour for the very first time.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, obviously very toughed. I'm still trying to kind of
work out what happened. I felt like I was kind
of always chasing today and was pretty happy to give
it a go down the stretch and give myself a
chance to get in a playoff and yeah, was a
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chip into win a tournament doesn't really get any better
to be on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So how were the feelings the emotions as you stood
over that third shot on the playoff hole, chipping towards
the hole. Did you always feel like you were going
to go for it?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I mean, playoffs are kind of funny. You feel like
you've got to take it on a little bit and
really try to win rather than it's almost match play
rather than than stroke play. And you know, to be honest,
I felt like I had a really good drive, you know,
was skirting the left edge of the fairway and clipped
the tree and dropped down and left and ended up
in a not great spot and had a really good
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second shot to where I was at, and you know,
I was just thinking over the chip, just give it
a chance. You know, obviously I still want I still
want to be in the playoff if it's you know,
if everyone makes par. But you know, also you know,
you figure one of those guys is probably going to
make that part, so at least give it a chance
to go in. And I had a really similar part
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in regulation same line from about thirty feet and knew
it didn't break very much, and you know, Chip came
out perfect, couldn't couldn't have wished for it to come
out any better, And about eight foot out, you know,
I thought it pretty much could go nowhere else And
then you know, obviously after that, I'm just you know,
you never wish you playing partners to miss, but you
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you know, it was certainly nice to not go any
more holes for.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It, Yeah, because that was the situation you were in
at that point. You've burdied both Hughes and Higgs. Mackenzie
Hughes and Harry Higgs have the chance to have birdie parts,
which would have sent you back to the eighteenth tee.
Higgs couldn't couldn't part his What was the feeling like
watching Mackenzie Hughes line up that part and then when
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he missed and you realize you'd won.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
To be honest, I kind of struggled to watch it
to start with. You know, it was again you're not
wishing someone to do badly, but you know, on the
other hand, you know, I've had a couple go the
other way and playoffs for me, people whole long puts
on me to either win or or carry on a playoff.
So I kind of was just wishing for a bit
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of luck in that respect, for something to.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Go my way.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
And you know, Max one of the better putters on
the PGA Tour. I think statistically he's up there most years,
and it was definitely expecting him to him to give
it a real good chance, and it was obviously very
tough to see it slide by. And you know, also
feel for those guys. And you know, I played with
Harry and Mac a few times. They're both really good guys,
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and they obviously played some really good golf today. But
you know, today was my day and ye're very happy
with how it turned out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Absolutely And what's it been like since, Ryan, what are
the hours since that that moment on the eighteenth green
been like for you? Have you had the chance to
soak it in to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Yeah, it's been pretty crazy. Lots of photos, presentation. They've
got a beach bar there, so had to head up there.
Managed to find a up of glasses of red wine,
which was quite nice. And then we're kind of chilling
in the in the clubhouse in the locker room with
with my family and my caddie and just having having
a bottle of wine and the kids had a pizza,
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and yeah, it was pretty cool to have them all there,
to be able to celebrate it with. And you know,
the golf course was fantastic, you know, making sure they
were all looked after when we finished, and you know,
they were all included in some of the celebrations. But yeah,
it's pretty well wind at the end, that's for sure.
And you know, my phone's been blowing up, as you
can imagine, so trying to get to a couple of
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messages and and you know, ring mom and dad and
stuff like that. But yeah, it's been been a pretty
crazy few hours. And yeah, managed to stop at a
supermarket for a frozen pizza and a bottle of wine.
And that's going to be me for tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm very glamorous, brilliant. You become the ninth New Zealander
to win on the USPGA Tour with some pretty illustrious names,
their names that I know. You know, well, what is
it like to join that exclude of club.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean, obviously they're icons of
the game in New Zealand, and you know it's pretty
cool to join some elite company in that regard. I've
felt like I've had a pretty decent career out on
tour so far, and this this just kind of adds
to it. And you know, hopefully it's the first of
a few that would be that would be nice. But
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you know, you know, regardless, it's nice to be in
that company with with you know, guys like you know,
maybe not Cambo, but you know, Novelo and Wait and
Tatangi and Craig Perks and those guys who won out
on the PGA Tour. Obviously Cambo and Bob Charles and
Lydia stand head and shoulders above the rest as major winners.
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But it's nice to be nice to be in with
those guys, you know, to one on the PJ Tour
and on you the DP or European Tour as well.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, we'll speaking of major championships. That's the other part
of this. It qualifies you for the PGA Championship, which
starts at the back end of the week tournament. I'm
sure that you that you weren't expecting to be involved in.
They say that winning breach confidence. What does this win
do for your confidence as you head into the PGA Championship.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I guess the expectations are pretty low next week in
that respect. Obviously I'm in good form. I've been playing well,
but it's really hard to back up a win, you know,
you've got to you know, I felt like, you know,
it's climbing a mountain this week, and you've got to
go all the way back down and climb it again
next week, and that can be quite hard. So you know,
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I'm going to go into next week with with you know,
no expectations, and I'm just happy to be in the
field in that regard and just try to get out
of my own way basically, just you know, trust the
fact that I'm playing good golf, and I know my
good golf is good enough, and you know, regardless of
what happens next week, you know, I've got some status
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out here guaranteed for the next couple of years. You know.
It takes the pressure off for the rest of the year.
You know, probably schedules change a little bit as well,
not just next week, but potentially getting in some of
those signature events that they have through the swing files.
I'm not quite sure how all of that works, but
apparently that's looking a bit more promising than it was before.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The start of the day.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
So yeah, looks hopefully I can just play some some
freer golf in the next little while, and you know
that that certainly certainly helps. It helped in Europe a
couple of years ago getting winners category and taking all
that pressure off. And it's certainly nice. And I've got
a job out here for the next little while.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I bet it is. Thanks indeed for your time, Ryan.
Congratulations again, Ryan Fox, a PGA Tour winner, just one
of nine keiweks now to have achieved that feat. Your
thoughts on this achievement would be welcome. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is our phone number nine two
nine to two on text. It is just so hard
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to win a golf tournament. Even the very best in
the world would win what two or three a year tops.
The fact only nine Kiwis have ever won on the
men's USPGA Tour is further evidence of this. He's always
had the ability, Ryan Fox. We've always known what a
good goal for he is. He's been out number one
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for a while, but like any other golfer on the planet,
it's just putting together the four rounds. And you know
that again, at every level of golf, that is the
most frustrating thing, because you know what it's like. You'll
go out, even if you're a weekend hacker, and you'll
hit a couple of good shots and you'll think, imagine
if I could do that every hole. And when you
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get to the elite level like Ryan Fox and others,
they must think, you know, they have great rounds. And
Ryan Fox put together four exceptionally good rounds this morning.
He shot a five hundred sixty six no bogies, five birdies,
four on the back nine. It's a horrific round of
golf coupled with the other three, and that still only
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got him into a playoff, and that was only because
Mackenzie Hughes mister putt on eighteen that would have given
him the outright win. So even in the face of
a brilliant weekend, Ryan Fox might still not have won it,
but he did and will always remember the twelfth of
May May eleven, I guess, if you want to be
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strictly correct about it in the US, as the day
that he joined a very exclusive club. I've often said
as well, it is a heck of a lot easier
to wish success for someone if they seem like a
decent person. And Ryan Fox just strikes me as a
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very humble, high quality human being. I've never met Ryan Fox,
never had the opportunity, never had the pleasure spoken to
him a few times in interviews like that one. He
just strikes me as you or every day down to
Worth Kiwi, doing exceptionally brilliant things on the golf courses
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around the world, just doing us proud, representing us on
the greens and the fairways of the world. And afterwards,
stopping off at the supermarket for a frozen pizza and
a bottle of wine on his way home with his family.
None of the airs and graces of the real superstars
of golf and other sports, who would probably send somebody
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out to do that. None. Ryan Fox probably drove home
to wherever they're staying with his wife and their two daughters,
stopped off at the supermarket, said to the girls, what
kind of pizza do you want? I'll get a bottle
of wine. We'll go home, just your everyday Kiwi. And
as I say, it is a lot easier to wish
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good things for people and to be delighted for them
when they achieved them if those people are are just
good buggers, and that's what he is. David says, I'm
listening from Germany. What a humble man. Ryan Fox is
wonderful ambassador for New Zealand. Good on your Ryan says,
this one who's got his dad's timing. I reckon, by
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the way, I can remember Jonah smashing his way with
pace through various rg BE teams. Yeah, Jonah Loom who's
fiftieth birthday today or would have been born May twelfth,
nineteen seventy five. News talks he'd beat and sports talk
is checking on the time if I can get my
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fucking keep my mouse clicking in the right place. Seven
twenty two. Your thoughts on Ryan Fox are very welcome.
Our eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Greg Turner going
to join us shortly. He never won on the PGA Tour,
but won four times on the European Tour, six times
on the PGA Tour of Australasia, so he knows what
it's like to want to golf to him and Greg
(15:02):
Turner one of our greats. But your thoughts are welcome
on this and what Fox he has as a and
how you put it into context, Daniel.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
You get it. You'd be more than me. But I've
been playing Ryan Pock for a while. I'm sure he
was on the European Tour for a while, and he
was doing another breakaway league for a while, and he's
been competing all over the world.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
No, he's never been on the Lift Tour. That's why
you're talking about it. He has been on the European Tour. Yep,
he's he's been and successfully so and he earned us
to a card for the PGA Tour. And it's been
a bit of a struggle for him over the last
couple of years. Daniel and he freely. Yeah, I've admitted that.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I think he won about eighteen months ago. I think
he won a big tour him over in Scotland or
Britain or somewhere. He won some open over the end.
It sort of got him, sort of started him again
and it's what got him into America. I might be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure he won the Scottish Open. Wasn't
the British Open. I know that because that's the major,
but he won and tought him over. Then it sort
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of got him over to the PGA.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, he's won four times on the on the European Tour.
The I think I think the one you might be
talking about is the Elfrad Dunhill Links Championship. That was
that was a really big win for him. And yeah, yeah,
and I mean it's yeah, Like I say, Daniel, anyone
who's ever picked up a golf club at any level
knows how bloody difficult it is, you know, to hit
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one shot, read alone, a whole bunch in a row,
you know.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
And then when tournament like that, you know, I hope
he goes out next week in the PGA Tour and
win's the wins Someboddy thinks. Sorry to share on here,
but you know, because not many kis are one major
that all around the way they think is only Michael Campbell,
and I think and and Bob Cholmes the only q
is in the won a major tournament.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You got that right, Daniel. And let's hope that Ryan
Fox can add his name to that list. He's joined
them as as a winner on the PGA Tour. Let's
hope he can he can carry on. Yeah for what
wins on the European Tour, for for Ryan Fox, one
on the Asian Tour, three in Australasia, quite a few
on the Challenge Tour. But today the big one winning
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on the PGA Tour for the very first time.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Tell Us, Hi, Hi Bunny, Yes, congratulations to Ryan, and yeah,
it's a great day. I remember watching his father, Grant
play cricket. He was a great good cricketer.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I heard that. Yeah, I heard that he went to Grammar,
I think Auckland Grammar and was in the first eleven
and the first fifteen up there. And yeah, and probably
I guess Rugby had had more of a pathway for
him more, you know. But yeah, and I heard that
as well, that he was a very good cricketer. Grant Fox.
I saw, I saw him.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Get a fifty it there was it somewhere one cricket
club in Orgland, but I think it was a charity game.
But my point is that sometimes players can be good
at more than one sports, you know, and system out
of which one they choose, you know, they're good with
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any sport that involves coordination, some sort of ball, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I remember seeing some footage once tell Us on this
of Grant Fox teaching another player how to goalkick, and
you could see, you could watch them and Grant Fox
was mimicking a straight drive while he was demonstrating how
to goalkick, so obviously finding analogy between the way you
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hit a cricket ball and the way you strike a
rugby ball when you're goalkicking. So the two things obviously
went hand in hand for him. Yeah. What, I'm just
trying to think of what kind of cricketer Grant Fox
would have been. I couldn't imagine he would have been
a dasher. He probably got most of his fifty with
little Nordles down the league side or you know, little
lake cats that sort of thing. Or was he a
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bit of a dasher?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
A dasher is just like he was having fun and
you know, just having fun with our a charity game
and he was hitting fours and sixes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah yeah, And I as I understand it, Ryan was
quite a good rugby player as well growing up, and
that's probably fair enough when you're old men's one of
the greatest doll blacks ever played the game. But clearly
golfer is the way he went. And yeah, I bet
Ryan has a very proud dad today. You know, it
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went for a while, you know, Ryan was Grant Fox's son.
I think we've gone to the point now where Grant
probably as described as as Ryan Fox's dad just as often.
Good to Chettia Dallas. Thanks. Indeed, let's bring in one
of our golfing greats, Greg Turner. Greg, fantastic day for
New Zealand golf. How big a day is this for
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Ryan Fox? Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Well, it's huge, you know. I mean, you can't under
say winning on the US too for a start is
something that's pretty pretty special. But given his circumstances, you know,
he's had a he's only second season over there, he's
had a few battles, he's sort of gone okay, but
only just okay. But this really does move the dial completely.
And obviously been in the PJ next week, but that
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two year exemption and that just really frees up to
go and will free him up to go go and
you know and really chase things and you know, not
be looking, not be looking in the rear view view
mirror so much.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, he admitted afterwards, as as you have there alluded
to that it's been a tough couple of years for him.
So how much is this a victory of resilience for
Ryan Fox? Among other things?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, Look, I think you can underestimate it's how it's
at end and that I found that US two are
playing on those courses against those guys week and week out.
It it is quite an adjustment. I mean, he's settled
in pretty well in Europe and was obviously doing really
well there. But but you know, America is a different
kettle of fish. So you know, I mean, he'll I mean,
it's a monkey off his back in some ways, but
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you know, he's the sort of guy who's you know,
he's never going to be the guy that plods along
and runs fifteenth every week. When he's on, he's really on,
and and yeah, but you've got to take your chances
when that happens. And boy did he in style? And
what I think because it was he four under on
the back nine. I was watching with about nine holes
to go, and I thought, boy, this is an important
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couple of hours for Ryan. But you know, it could
have gone, you know, as a log jam up the
top that could have gone either way. But he just
grabbed it by the scraff of the neck and and
good on him.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And the very last shot that he played on their
playoff hole, chipping in for birdie, I mean, how do
you evaluate that shot? I mean, the biggest, probably of
his career.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, possibly, you know, I don't know, in a funny way,
you're in a playoff at sort of sudden death, it's
all nothing if you like, you know, both the other
guys that had in pretty good shots, So you know,
I guess, I mean, you know, if you've got the
bright attitude, you're looking at it and saying, well, it's
shot to nothing. You know, I like to make this great.
You know, I might be out of here, but let's
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have a go. And it wasn't a hardship, but yeah,
they're never easy in sudden death.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And before that, off the tea, on that sudden first
playoff hole, it wasn't a great T shot, was it
pulled it into the left ruff. It wasn't exactly a
great lie for him for his second shot.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yeah, no, I mean, I mean that's where his club bedustreet.
His strength really helps when you're out of that rough.
But yeah, he said in the interview afterwards, he said
he was a bit disappoint thought he didn't think the
T shot was as bad as where it ended up,
but you know, just a muscle under the edge of
the green as he did was a terrific shot. And
then the icing very very matched the icing on the
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cake to chip that one in.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Having finished his own round and as you say, it
was an excellent round, bogie three five under four bodies
on the back nine. He had to wait, didn't he,
for Harry Higgs and Mackenzie Hughes to finish their rounds
before the playoff was confirmed. What would have been going
through his head as he waited.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, it's a funny sort of situation because there's nothing
you can do about it. You know, you're you're, yeah,
you're it's out of your control at that stage. I mean,
you've got it in your mind that you might be
in a playoffs. You're probably thinking you won't be. You know,
you're preparing yourself for the worst and hoping for the best.
But yes, he got out there and hit a few
balls and you know, and yeah, I mean it wasn't
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too long the wait, was it. He probably had half
an hour maybe, so, yeah, regrouped and yeah, and I
mean they'd all played pretty well. I think there were
three under four hundred and five under for the day,
so they're all, you know, they're all in good chape.
It's a bit of a yeah, it's a it's a
bit of a toss up in a playoff, isn't it.
But you boy, good on him, and who knows what
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the resud you'll bring.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, I felt about for Mackenzie Hughes. See, he had
had a part to win it had me on eighteen
which he missed that center to apply off. He had
a part which was closer than the other two to
win the playoff hole as well. Do you think the
most part to win the whole thing would have been
playing on his mind as he crouched over the put
in on the first playoff hole.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You know, I think he's I mean, I think they
move on past that. You think you're thinking about it now,
But yeah, you've got to stay in the present. And
I mean he's good player. He's won a couple of
times on the on the US too, so he's not
un accustomed to that situation. But yeah, I mean, looking
back on it now, it's so ruined that you had
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your chances and you didn't take them. And and of
course Fox is in completely opposite this and he's looking back, Wow,
you know, I sort of had a chance and I
grabbed it by the scriptick and on on and upward, and.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Just to finish your talk before about the freedom that
the two year tour exemption will give him. Can you
just give us a bit of an idea of what
of what he can now do with the freedom of
the exemption.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, it just means you're not looking in the rear
view r. You know you're not You're not having to
protect you know, you're sort of person if you like it,
So you can just go out there and play and
play the schedule you want to play, and you know
we are with a view on how well can I
do and you know what can I add to that?
Rather than having in the back of your mind, you know,
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I've got to play, to play quite a lot just
to make sure I keep my playing right. So you know,
that just puts them in a different kettle. Fee will
take him a couple of weeks probably to get his
head around that. He's off to quite hollow tomorrow and
you know that'll be fresh in his mind. But yeah, boy,
it's made the rest of the season a lot simpler
the schedule.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, great day for Ryan Fox and for the game
of golf. Thanks so much, great for joining us to
unpack it for us. Really enjoyed the chat. Thank you,
Thank you. Great chess cheers, great Turner joining us on
Sports Talk with his thoughts. Before we move, Tony says,
get a ponty. What a great one for Ryan Fox,
A great grandfather and sport, a great dad and sport,
and now his greatest success as Ryan. I was lucky enough,
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says Tony, to catch it this morning and watched it
in tearful excitement. Hearing that he's one of just nine
to win a PGA two event also reminds us how
great our Livia Coe is with twenty three wins. It
certainly does, Tony, It certainly does twenty seven to eight.
We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll flick
across the basketball with the Tall Blacks beating Australia yesterday
for the first time in quite a while. It's a
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very rare thing, the Tall Blacks beating the Boomers as
they're called in a basketball game. Ruben Totangi led the
Tall Blacks yesterday to victory and Hamilton. He's going to
reflect on that with us right after this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Forget the ref's call, You make a call on eight
hundred and eighty eighty Sports Talk on your home of
Sports News Talks ABS Talks.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Heb seven thirty six on News Talks here. But the
Tall Blacks struck back against the Australian Boomers yesterday winning
the third Trans Tasman Showdown basketball match one O six
to ninety seven at Globbox Arena and Hamilton captain Ruben
Toangy played a major roles score ring eighteen points.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Tani was clear space, knocks down the three talk.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Next league's five.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
We're going to time out team biking ten seconds on
the shot clock. Oh, Ruben, Only the captain steps up
and knocks down.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The three two shots from the same spot.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
He has got it going earlier this one.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, Ruben Tarangi eighteen points and joins us now on
sports Talk. Thanks for the chat, Ruben, Congratulations on the win.
How satisfying was it to get a win against the
Australians after the defeats and the first two matches of
this Trans Tasman Throwdown series.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Yeah, it was a good feeling. I think we took
a lot of lessons out of the first two games,
but we definite knew we could beat that team and
it was good to keep the win last night.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What were the lessons you took? What did you do
better in game three.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Obviously we meet some shots. We weren't shooting the wall
very well in those first couple of games, and maybe
a few shots we could set our defense and a
bit of defense. But then I think what we did
exceptional was we rebounded the ball well. We rerounded them
by quite a bit, so it went our way, I guess,
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And at the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
End of the game, in terms of the start, you
started fast, You were really quick out of the blocks
and build up a good lead in the first quarter.
Was that intentional that you would really go hard at
them from the start.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
I don't think it was intentional, but we had the
intent to pick the pace up, and then on the
defensive there we just wanted to street the game up
for them and make them take tough, contested shots.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
The rebounding battle you talked about it there, the battle
of the boards is a large part of that mental
It's kind of like tackling and rugby, and that you
have to be willing to suffer a little bit in
the paint.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I think that's that's what it comes down to. It
who wants to get in the fight more than the
other person. We offensive rebounded really well, so we were
taking it to them, and then on the defensive end,
we're heading bodies and making sure they were getting second chance.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Points, running it right down the box score. Taylor Brook
top scored for you twenty three points, nine rebounds. It
assists a good day out for him. Can you talk
a bit about Taylor Brook's contribution to this one?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yeah? No, he like the ball goes through him a lot,
and we expect him to make plays and we know
he can make those types of plays and yeah, like
he showed in the second game and that game, he
is definitely a good player and I'm going to be
a good player for a long time.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And eighteen points for you personally, six of seven field
goal percentage, four from four three pointers. Did you just
feel better shooting the basketball yesterday?
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Yeah? I guess I did?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
You know?
Speaker 10 (29:51):
Playing in front of our home home crowd and in
front of our home fans, I think you know it
gives you that extra list and make sure how to
play a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
How often have you beat in Australia yourself? Personally?
Speaker 10 (30:03):
That was my second time?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Whoilst two? Two times?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Man?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And they don't come along very often. You've got to
relish them, don't you.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yeah for sure. But also we actually don't play them
too much, Like since we moved into Asia for our qualifying,
we don't actually get to play them as much as
we do. So I think these series, well, hopefully they'll
continue and we can play more games in front of
our bands.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Absolutely. Look, I think everybody would agree that that would
be a great idea. And you said before, you don't
it doesn't feel to you, Ruben, as though you're that
far off them.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Well, yeah, I guess the team we played last night, yeah,
I think. I mean we play against him all year
in the NBL, and then yeah, I think if we
do those things, we make sures and we rebound the ball,
I think we're a good team and we can put
up a good player.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And just as far as the Tall Blacks roster is concerned,
there's a bit of youth coming through now as well,
the likes of Jackson Ball and Oscar Goodman involved in
this series. Do you feel like there is a new
wave of young players coming through at the moment.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Yeah, I'm I think what they like. A couple of
those boys are at the Under seventeen World Cup and
they came forth there, so there's there's going to be
some good boys that take over in the next term,
so just hopefully leave it in a better place. And
I came into and when.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
When young guys like that come into the environment, I
would imagine it could potentially be a bit daunting for them,
although you know they're they're obviously, you know, ready to
make that step in the eyes of the coaches and selectors.
How do you how do you go about making sure
that they're assimilated nice and comfortably into the Tall Blacks environment.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I feel like it's not that hard. I feel like
we were all from New Zealand, so we all have
similar backgrounds and we all kind of get each other's jokes.
So I feel like they fit in pretty easily. And
all all of those kids coming through, they're awesome kids,
and yeah, they work hard and fit in really well.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Look forward to seeing a lot more of them. And
for you, you talk about playing on home court back
to the Breakers. This year, the club you played over
one hundred games for won a couple of championships with
I know the fans are looking forward to having you back.
How much you're looking forward to getting back in a
Breakers singlet?
Speaker 10 (32:14):
I'm excited, you know, just like I said, playing in
front of fans, and then yeah, I guess also been
around family as well. For me, I've been away for
ten years and just be good to be around family
as well well.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Congrats on the win yesterday, all the best for what
lies ahead in the immediate future. Look forward to seeing
you in a Breakers singlet soon, Ruben. Thanks for the
chat tonight, mate.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
No, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Thank you, No, thank you, Rubin. Rubin Todangy there from
the toll Backs, Towllbacks captain leading them to victory yesterday
against the Boomers, and as mentioned there at the end,
coming back to the Breakers. He had four or five
years twenty twelve through twenty sixteen at the Breakers. He's
been at a couple or three A and BL clubs
in the time since, over three hundred and fifty Australian
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National Basketball League games. Ruben Todangy'd be great to have
him back in a Breakers singlet. Sam says Piney, I'm
very here, very happy to here. Reuben almost emphasizing the
word lessons when he was talking to you about what
they learned in their two losses. They were handed lessons,
not learnings. Honesty with his words and the team looked
like they learned their lessons. Sam I thought exactly that
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when he said it, I thought he emphasized we took
some good lessons because this word that has become blight
on us learnings will take our learnings. No, you're right, Sam,
it's lessons. It's lessons. Piney's power rankings to come shortly.
The big news in the last hour or so in
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the spawn world is the fact that legendary Indian batsman
Verant Cohley has announced his immediate retirement from Test cricket.
Now this comes before this summer's five Tests of England,
that's the Northern Summer, of course, which starts on the
twentieth of June. It follows Captain Rowat Shalma's retirement on Wednesday.
So Sharma and now Cohlei have both hung up the whites.
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Coley's thirty six. He's played one hundred and twenty three
Test matches for India, nine two hundred and thirty runs
at an average of forty six point eight five. He
retired from T twenty internationals last year after India's World
Cup victory. He is expected to continue playing One day
internationals for India he debuted in Test matches against the
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West Indies in twenty eleven, went on to captain India
in sixty eight of his one hundred and twenty three Tests,
with his forty wins in charge, making him the country's
most successful Test captain. He's long been regarded, of course,
as one of the four batting greats of his own era,
alongside Joe Root, Steve Smith and our own came Williamson.
(34:47):
Thirty Test centuries for Verat Kohli, but his most recent
one one hundred night out in the first Test against
Australia in November was his first in fifteen innings across
sixteen months. Only three centuries in thirty nine Test matches
since January twenty twenty, and in that time he averages
just to tick over thirty. So the back end of
his Test area not quite as prolific as the front end.
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But he will retire as one of Test cricket's greats,
one of Indian crickets greats, and still more to come
in the fifty over format. For the rat COLI seven
forty five, let's get a breakaway when we come back.
Party's Power rankings for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Our rankings.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yes, indeed time for Party's Power Rankings, our Monday night
feature rating the best, the worst and the in between.
Bits from the sporting weekend Let's go Nottingham Forest owner
evangelist Marinacus who stormed onto the pitch to confront his
manager Nuno Espirito Sento after Forest drew to all with
(35:53):
Leicester City this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Marinakis not happy, clearly I'm saying a few words in
the direction of Nuno Spedo son to the Forest manager.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Pretty unprecedented scenes here after the sensational season Forest have
had and Santo's part in that it was very poor
formed from their owner who looked like had been enjoying
a little bit too much of his own hospitality by
the way sign the West Tigers and absolute humiliation at
the hands of the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
What in afternoon it has been the perfect show appropriately
from the Melbourne Storm at full time.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
They've taken down the Tigers or sixty four points to them,
that's right, sixty four nil. Incredibly, that was the third
time the Storm have beaten the Tigers sixty four nil.
They did it in two thousand and one and again
last season. Sat Kiwi cyclist Dion Smith striking a somewhat
(36:49):
unique problem on the one hundred and sixty kilometer third
stage of the eurod Italian hiay yay.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yay yay riter. That was just about taking out there.
Speaker 11 (37:00):
That's the key where that was Dion Smith and we're
not even at the King of the Mountains points hit
the goats all ready in the thick of the action.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah you heard that right. That is Dion Smith colliding
with a goat. Seven City Kickboxing's Nahavo Sterling, continuing his
ascent in the light heavyweight division.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
The judges scored the contest Ony Night, What he eight,
Ony Night?
Speaker 5 (37:23):
What he eight?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
At twenty night twenty.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Seven for the winner Are you damous decision?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
No star.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yep, it says second UFC win with a unanimous decision
nod over Croatia's Ivan Ursulin at UFC three one five
in Montreal six. Chris Wood a twentieth goal of the
Premier League season for him.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Keeps weie what opacities forward for what about it say
sleeper for his goal the my show with the assis
and the poacher with the finish.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
The All White Skippers diving head early in the second half.
His eighteen ninth Premier League goal of all time five.
The Chiefs back to the top of the Super Rugby table.
Speaker 11 (38:15):
Road get set to touch and the Chicks come to
christ Church and make a real statement of intense and
the Super Rugby competition. From sixteen points down, they win
by sixteen thirty five nineteen four.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Staying with the Chiefs, it's their coach Clayton McMillan with
a unique motivation method for his side after they lost
the Hurricanes last time out. He's quintupi with the details.
We sat in the change rooms after the Hurricanes game
and listen to them sing their song. Next door, Don
turned our speaker off and we all sat there and
listen to it and it sort of filled us. Master
(38:53):
motivator Clayton McMillan, Can we drive a Matt pain taking
the check and flag and raise three of the Tasmania
Super four forty? This call me the win of all
miracle time in supercartive you could get.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Heady get.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
A win by point zero five seconds, the sports third
closest winning margin ever. Payne remains third in the championship
behind Brock Feenie and Will Brown, who two's the Warriors
four straight wins. An outright second on the NRL Ladder
after their narrow victory over the Dragons. Courtesy of this he.
Speaker 11 (39:34):
Is thinking one pointer and he's got it.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It stays inside the right upright they go early. Metcalf
takes them one, and they were number one up until
this morning one when Ryan Fox took top on as
a PGA Tour winner for the very first time with
a chip and for Birdie on the first hole in
a three way sudden death playoff at the Myrtle Beach
(40:00):
Tournament in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
It's gimped in a Ryan Ryan Fox, fantastic a ho Well,
Bernie been the first playoff hole.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now, I can't imagine you'd have too many issues with
Piney's power rankings tonight. You know I've I've chipped in
for Verdie before.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
You have not I have, and I.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Haven't done it in a playoff hole.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I celebrated louder when Ryan Fixed chipped in than I
have when i've when I've done it before anyway, And
Deon Smith, are you telling me he he collided with
Eddie Murks.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
The Goats. He collided with Dame Lisa Carrington. I don't
know what she was doing up there. All right, Well,
it's good to know that you've chipped in. Ryan Fox
tipped in for one point two million. Those are Piney's
Power Rankings. They're back next Monday night, four to eight,
just before I go. If you like your sport, and well,
if you're listening to the show, presumably you at least
(41:05):
don't hate it and you've been held hostage by somebody
who's listening into sports Talk tonight. If you like your sport,
could I recommend to you the Sports Fixed podcast. It
comes out Monday through Friday, sort of mid afternoon, sort
of three thirty four o'clock. It's a mix of sports news, interviews, opinion,
a little bit of robust debate, and lots of other
things as well. It's about sort of eighteen to twenty
(41:26):
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or perhaps some of you drive home. Sports Fix. It
is called If you search for it on your podcast platform,
hopefully you'll find it and hopefully you'll like it. Huge
thanks to any McDonald for producing the show today and
across the weekend. Top Stuff made have a good couple
of days off. Marcus Lush is on the radio after
(41:49):
eight and we're back on Weekend Sport from midday on Saturday.
Have an excellent week, take it easy, life and.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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sports talk on News Talks EDB. May twelve. The late
great Joon Olomu born on this day, nineteen seventy five.
He would have been fifty today. Jonah, he was twenty
when he did this.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Why dealmo, he's got the bounce, He's HEARDing it, offers opposite.
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Lomoo oh oh taken far too soon ten years ago.
I'm Jason Pine Show producer is Andy McDonald. We're here
to late talking sport with you. What a day for
Ryan Fox's.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Given it a Ryan Ryan Fox fantastic Oh ho alcherny
Ben the first playoff.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Hole a winner for the first time on the PGA
Tour with his victory in a three ways sudden death
playoff at the Myrtle Classic. How significant is this? Ryan Fox?
Standing by a chat to us Kee we golf legend
Greg Turner as well and your thoughts too. As a
ninth key we Mail wins on the PGA Tour other
(01:29):
matters around tonight, the Tall Blacks have earned a rare
basketball went over Australia they won one O six ninety
seven and Hamilton yesterday. Captain Rubert d Angie is with
us to reflect on that, and as always on Monday nights,
we do Piney's Power Rankings, rating the best, the worst
and the in between bits from the sporting weekend. We
invite you to join the show if you would like to.
The invitation is warmly extended to you. Our eight hundred
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You can send you your text message to nine two
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NZ seven.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
We've got the breakdown on Sports Talk.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Ryan Fox has become the ninth New Zealand male golfer
to win on the USPGA Tour, only in.
Speaker 5 (02:22):
The first cut.
Speaker 6 (02:23):
It's all about is that longer rough going defect his
back swing?
Speaker 4 (02:32):
It's given it a Ryan Ryan Fox. Fantastic hollol Bernie
been the first playoff hole.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
That is incredible.
Speaker 5 (02:42):
I knew he wanted to be aggressive, but to hit
a perfect chip like that at your biggest moment in
professional golf.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
How about Ryan Fox. That is a amazing shot. Amazing shot. Indeed,
Ryan Fox chipping in for Bertie on the first hole
of a three way sudden death playoff to win the
Myrtle Beach Classic. He joins Sir Bob Charles, Michael Kemble,
John Lister, Grant Wait, Frank Nobolo, Phili Craig Perks, and
Danny Lee as Kiwi mails to have won a PGA
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to event. Danny Lee was the most recent when he
won the Greenbrier Classic in twenty fifteen. That is until today.
The victory earns Ryan Fox a two year PGA Tour exemption,
automatic entry into this week's second major of the year,
the PGA Championship, and prize money of one point two
million New Zealand dollars. Ryan Fox is with us on
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news talks. He be congratulations.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
Ryan.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
How are you feeling a few hours after winning on
the PGA Tour for the very first time.
Speaker 6 (03:43):
Yeah, obviously very toughed. I'm still trying to kind of
work out what happened. I felt like I was kind
of always chasing today and was pretty happy to give
it a go down the stretch and give myself a
chance to get in a playoff and yeah, was a
(04:03):
chip into win a tournament doesn't really get any better
to be on.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So how were the feelings the emotions as you stood
over that third shot on the playoff hole, chipping towards
the hole. Did you always feel like you were going
to go for it?
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I mean, playoffs are kind of funny. You feel like
you've got to take it on a little bit and
really try to win rather than it's almost match play
rather than than stroke play. And you know, to be honest,
I felt like I had a really good drive, you know,
was skirting the left edge of the fairway and clipped
the tree and dropped down and left and ended up
in a not great spot and had a really good
(04:40):
second shot to where I was at, and you know,
I was just thinking over the chip, just give it
a chance. You know, obviously I still want I still
want to be in the playoff if it's you know,
if everyone makes par. But you know, also you know,
you figure one of those guys is probably going to
make that part, so at least give it a chance
to go in. And I had a really similar part
(05:03):
in regulation same line from about thirty feet and knew
it didn't break very much, and you know, Chip came
out perfect, couldn't couldn't have wished for it to come
out any better, And about eight foot out, you know,
I thought it pretty much could go nowhere else And
then you know, obviously after that, I'm just you know,
you never wish you playing partners to miss, but you
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you know, it was certainly nice to not go any
more holes for.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It, Yeah, because that was the situation you were in
at that point. You've burdied both Hughes and Higgs. Mackenzie
Hughes and Harry Higgs have the chance to have birdie parts,
which would have sent you back to the eighteenth tee.
Higgs couldn't couldn't part his What was the feeling like
watching Mackenzie Hughes line up that part and then when
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he missed and you realize you'd won.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
To be honest, I kind of struggled to watch it
to start with. You know, it was again you're not
wishing someone to do badly, but you know, on the
other hand, you know, I've had a couple go the
other way and playoffs for me, people whole long puts
on me to either win or or carry on a playoff.
So I kind of was just wishing for a bit
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of luck in that respect, for something to.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Go my way.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
And you know, Max one of the better putters on
the PGA Tour. I think statistically he's up there most years,
and it was definitely expecting him to him to give
it a real good chance, and it was obviously very
tough to see it slide by. And you know, also
feel for those guys. And you know, I played with
Harry and Mac a few times. They're both really good guys,
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and they obviously played some really good golf today. But
you know, today was my day and ye're very happy
with how it turned out.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Absolutely And what's it been like since, Ryan, what are
the hours since that that moment on the eighteenth green
been like for you? Have you had the chance to
soak it in to celebrate.
Speaker 6 (06:58):
Yeah, it's been pretty crazy. Lots of photos, presentation. They've
got a beach bar there, so had to head up there.
Managed to find a up of glasses of red wine,
which was quite nice. And then we're kind of chilling
in the in the clubhouse in the locker room with
with my family and my caddie and just having having
a bottle of wine and the kids had a pizza,
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and yeah, it was pretty cool to have them all there,
to be able to celebrate it with. And you know,
the golf course was fantastic, you know, making sure they
were all looked after when we finished, and you know,
they were all included in some of the celebrations. But yeah,
it's pretty well wind at the end, that's for sure.
And you know, my phone's been blowing up, as you
can imagine, so trying to get to a couple of
(07:42):
messages and and you know, ring mom and dad and
stuff like that. But yeah, it's been been a pretty
crazy few hours. And yeah, managed to stop at a
supermarket for a frozen pizza and a bottle of wine.
And that's going to be me for tonight.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
I'm very glamorous, brilliant. You become the ninth New Zealander
to win on the USPGA Tour with some pretty illustrious names,
their names that I know. You know, well, what is
it like to join that exclude of club.
Speaker 6 (08:08):
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean, obviously they're icons of
the game in New Zealand, and you know it's pretty
cool to join some elite company in that regard. I've
felt like I've had a pretty decent career out on
tour so far, and this this just kind of adds
to it. And you know, hopefully it's the first of
a few that would be that would be nice. But
(08:30):
you know, you know, regardless, it's nice to be in
that company with with you know, guys like you know,
maybe not Cambo, but you know, Novelo and Wait and
Tatangi and Craig Perks and those guys who won out
on the PGA Tour. Obviously Cambo and Bob Charles and
Lydia stand head and shoulders above the rest as major winners.
(08:51):
But it's nice to be nice to be in with
those guys, you know, to one on the PJ Tour
and on you the DP or European Tour as well.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Yeah, we'll speaking of major championships. That's the other part
of this. It qualifies you for the PGA Championship, which
starts at the back end of the week tournament. I'm
sure that you that you weren't expecting to be involved in.
They say that winning breach confidence. What does this win
do for your confidence as you head into the PGA Championship.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
I guess the expectations are pretty low next week in
that respect. Obviously I'm in good form. I've been playing well,
but it's really hard to back up a win, you know,
you've got to you know, I felt like, you know,
it's climbing a mountain this week, and you've got to
go all the way back down and climb it again
next week, and that can be quite hard. So you know,
(09:37):
I'm going to go into next week with with you know,
no expectations, and I'm just happy to be in the
field in that regard and just try to get out
of my own way basically, just you know, trust the
fact that I'm playing good golf, and I know my
good golf is good enough, and you know, regardless of
what happens next week, you know, I've got some status
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out here guaranteed for the next couple of years. You know.
It takes the pressure off for the rest of the year.
You know, probably schedules change a little bit as well,
not just next week, but potentially getting in some of
those signature events that they have through the swing files.
I'm not quite sure how all of that works, but
apparently that's looking a bit more promising than it was before.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The start of the day.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
So yeah, looks hopefully I can just play some some
freer golf in the next little while, and you know
that that certainly certainly helps. It helped in Europe a
couple of years ago getting winners category and taking all
that pressure off. And it's certainly nice. And I've got
a job out here for the next little while.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
I bet it is. Thanks indeed for your time, Ryan.
Congratulations again, Ryan Fox, a PGA Tour winner, just one
of nine keiweks now to have achieved that feat. Your
thoughts on this achievement would be welcome. Oh eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is our phone number nine two
nine to two on text. It is just so hard
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to win a golf tournament. Even the very best in
the world would win what two or three a year tops.
The fact only nine Kiwis have ever won on the
men's USPGA Tour is further evidence of this. He's always
had the ability, Ryan Fox. We've always known what a
good goal for he is. He's been out number one
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for a while, but like any other golfer on the planet,
it's just putting together the four rounds. And you know
that again, at every level of golf, that is the
most frustrating thing, because you know what it's like. You'll
go out, even if you're a weekend hacker, and you'll
hit a couple of good shots and you'll think, imagine
if I could do that every hole. And when you
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get to the elite level like Ryan Fox and others,
they must think, you know, they have great rounds. And
Ryan Fox put together four exceptionally good rounds this morning.
He shot a five hundred sixty six no bogies, five birdies,
four on the back nine. It's a horrific round of
golf coupled with the other three, and that still only
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got him into a playoff, and that was only because
Mackenzie Hughes mister putt on eighteen that would have given
him the outright win. So even in the face of
a brilliant weekend, Ryan Fox might still not have won it,
but he did and will always remember the twelfth of
May May eleven, I guess, if you want to be
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strictly correct about it in the US, as the day
that he joined a very exclusive club. I've often said
as well, it is a heck of a lot easier
to wish success for someone if they seem like a
decent person. And Ryan Fox just strikes me as a
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very humble, high quality human being. I've never met Ryan Fox,
never had the opportunity, never had the pleasure spoken to
him a few times in interviews like that one. He
just strikes me as you or every day down to
Worth Kiwi, doing exceptionally brilliant things on the golf courses
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around the world, just doing us proud, representing us on
the greens and the fairways of the world. And afterwards,
stopping off at the supermarket for a frozen pizza and
a bottle of wine on his way home with his family.
None of the airs and graces of the real superstars
of golf and other sports, who would probably send somebody
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out to do that. None. Ryan Fox probably drove home
to wherever they're staying with his wife and their two daughters,
stopped off at the supermarket, said to the girls, what
kind of pizza do you want? I'll get a bottle
of wine. We'll go home, just your everyday Kiwi. And
as I say, it is a lot easier to wish
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good things for people and to be delighted for them
when they achieved them if those people are are just
good buggers, and that's what he is. David says, I'm
listening from Germany. What a humble man. Ryan Fox is
wonderful ambassador for New Zealand. Good on your Ryan says,
this one who's got his dad's timing. I reckon, by
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the way, I can remember Jonah smashing his way with
pace through various rg BE teams. Yeah, Jonah Loom who's
fiftieth birthday today or would have been born May twelfth,
nineteen seventy five. News talks he'd beat and sports talk
is checking on the time if I can get my
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fucking keep my mouse clicking in the right place. Seven
twenty two. Your thoughts on Ryan Fox are very welcome.
Our eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Greg Turner going
to join us shortly. He never won on the PGA Tour,
but won four times on the European Tour, six times
on the PGA Tour of Australasia, so he knows what
it's like to want to golf to him and Greg
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Turner one of our greats. But your thoughts are welcome
on this and what Fox he has as a and
how you put it into context, Daniel.
Speaker 8 (15:10):
You get it. You'd be more than me. But I've
been playing Ryan Pock for a while. I'm sure he
was on the European Tour for a while, and he
was doing another breakaway league for a while, and he's
been competing all over the world.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
No, he's never been on the Lift Tour. That's why
you're talking about it. He has been on the European Tour. Yep,
he's he's been and successfully so and he earned us
to a card for the PGA Tour. And it's been
a bit of a struggle for him over the last
couple of years. Daniel and he freely. Yeah, I've admitted that.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
I think he won about eighteen months ago. I think
he won a big tour him over in Scotland or
Britain or somewhere. He won some open over the end.
It sort of got him, sort of started him again
and it's what got him into America. I might be wrong,
but I'm pretty sure he won the Scottish Open. Wasn't
the British Open. I know that because that's the major,
but he won and tought him over. Then it sort
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of got him over to the PGA.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Yeah, he's won four times on the on the European Tour.
The I think I think the one you might be
talking about is the Elfrad Dunhill Links Championship. That was
that was a really big win for him. And yeah, yeah,
and I mean it's yeah, Like I say, Daniel, anyone
who's ever picked up a golf club at any level
knows how bloody difficult it is, you know, to hit
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one shot, read alone, a whole bunch in a row,
you know.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
And then when tournament like that, you know, I hope
he goes out next week in the PGA Tour and
win's the wins Someboddy thinks. Sorry to share on here,
but you know, because not many kis are one major
that all around the way they think is only Michael Campbell,
and I think and and Bob Cholmes the only q
is in the won a major tournament.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
You got that right, Daniel. And let's hope that Ryan
Fox can add his name to that list. He's joined
them as as a winner on the PGA Tour. Let's
hope he can he can carry on. Yeah for what
wins on the European Tour, for for Ryan Fox, one
on the Asian Tour, three in Australasia, quite a few
on the Challenge Tour. But today the big one winning
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on the PGA Tour for the very first time.
Speaker 7 (17:14):
Tell Us, Hi, Hi Bunny, Yes, congratulations to Ryan, and yeah,
it's a great day. I remember watching his father, Grant
play cricket. He was a great good cricketer.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
I heard that. Yeah, I heard that he went to Grammar,
I think Auckland Grammar and was in the first eleven
and the first fifteen up there. And yeah, and probably
I guess Rugby had had more of a pathway for
him more, you know. But yeah, and I heard that
as well, that he was a very good cricketer. Grant Fox.
I saw, I saw him.
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Get a fifty it there was it somewhere one cricket
club in Orgland, but I think it was a charity game.
But my point is that sometimes players can be good
at more than one sports, you know, and system out
of which one they choose, you know, they're good with
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any sport that involves coordination, some sort of ball, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
I remember seeing some footage once tell Us on this
of Grant Fox teaching another player how to goalkick, and
you could see, you could watch them and Grant Fox
was mimicking a straight drive while he was demonstrating how
to goalkick, so obviously finding analogy between the way you
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hit a cricket ball and the way you strike a
rugby ball when you're goalkicking. So the two things obviously
went hand in hand for him. Yeah. What, I'm just
trying to think of what kind of cricketer Grant Fox
would have been. I couldn't imagine he would have been
a dasher. He probably got most of his fifty with
little Nordles down the league side or you know, little
lake cats that sort of thing. Or was he a
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bit of a dasher?
Speaker 9 (19:01):
A dasher is just like he was having fun and
you know, just having fun with our a charity game
and he was hitting fours and sixes.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah yeah, And I as I understand it, Ryan was
quite a good rugby player as well growing up, and
that's probably fair enough when you're old men's one of
the greatest doll blacks ever played the game. But clearly
golfer is the way he went. And yeah, I bet
Ryan has a very proud dad today. You know, it
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went for a while, you know, Ryan was Grant Fox's son.
I think we've gone to the point now where Grant
probably as described as as Ryan Fox's dad just as often.
Good to Chettia Dallas. Thanks. Indeed, let's bring in one
of our golfing greats, Greg Turner. Greg, fantastic day for
New Zealand golf. How big a day is this for
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Ryan Fox? Oh?
Speaker 5 (19:54):
Well, it's huge, you know. I mean, you can't under
say winning on the US too for a start is
something that's pretty pretty special. But given his circumstances, you know,
he's had a he's only second season over there, he's
had a few battles, he's sort of gone okay, but
only just okay. But this really does move the dial completely.
And obviously been in the PJ next week, but that
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two year exemption and that just really frees up to
go and will free him up to go go and
you know and really chase things and you know, not
be looking, not be looking in the rear view view
mirror so much.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yeah, he admitted afterwards, as as you have there alluded
to that it's been a tough couple of years for him.
So how much is this a victory of resilience for
Ryan Fox? Among other things?
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, Look, I think you can underestimate it's how it's
at end and that I found that US two are
playing on those courses against those guys week and week out.
It it is quite an adjustment. I mean, he's settled
in pretty well in Europe and was obviously doing really
well there. But but you know, America is a different
kettle of fish. So you know, I mean, he'll I mean,
it's a monkey off his back in some ways, but
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you know, he's the sort of guy who's you know,
he's never going to be the guy that plods along
and runs fifteenth every week. When he's on, he's really on,
and and yeah, but you've got to take your chances
when that happens. And boy did he in style? And
what I think because it was he four under on
the back nine. I was watching with about nine holes
to go, and I thought, boy, this is an important
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couple of hours for Ryan. But you know, it could
have gone, you know, as a log jam up the
top that could have gone either way. But he just
grabbed it by the scraff of the neck and and
good on him.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
And the very last shot that he played on their
playoff hole, chipping in for birdie, I mean, how do
you evaluate that shot? I mean, the biggest, probably of
his career.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
Yeah, possibly, you know, I don't know, in a funny way,
you're in a playoff at sort of sudden death, it's
all nothing if you like, you know, both the other
guys that had in pretty good shots, So you know,
I guess, I mean, you know, if you've got the
bright attitude, you're looking at it and saying, well, it's
shot to nothing. You know, I like to make this great.
You know, I might be out of here, but let's
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have a go. And it wasn't a hardship, but yeah,
they're never easy in sudden death.
Speaker 2 (22:17):
And before that, off the tea, on that sudden first
playoff hole, it wasn't a great T shot, was it
pulled it into the left ruff. It wasn't exactly a
great lie for him for his second shot.
Speaker 5 (22:29):
Yeah, no, I mean, I mean that's where his club bedustreet.
His strength really helps when you're out of that rough.
But yeah, he said in the interview afterwards, he said
he was a bit disappoint thought he didn't think the
T shot was as bad as where it ended up,
but you know, just a muscle under the edge of
the green as he did was a terrific shot. And
then the icing very very matched the icing on the
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cake to chip that one in.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Having finished his own round and as you say, it
was an excellent round, bogie three five under four bodies
on the back nine. He had to wait, didn't he,
for Harry Higgs and Mackenzie Hughes to finish their rounds
before the playoff was confirmed. What would have been going
through his head as he waited.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
Yeah, it's a funny sort of situation because there's nothing
you can do about it. You know, you're you're, yeah,
you're it's out of your control at that stage. I mean,
you've got it in your mind that you might be
in a playoffs. You're probably thinking you won't be. You know,
you're preparing yourself for the worst and hoping for the best.
But yes, he got out there and hit a few
balls and you know, and yeah, I mean it wasn't
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too long the wait, was it. He probably had half
an hour maybe, so, yeah, regrouped and yeah, and I
mean they'd all played pretty well. I think there were
three under four hundred and five under for the day,
so they're all, you know, they're all in good chape.
It's a bit of a yeah, it's a it's a
bit of a toss up in a playoff, isn't it.
But you boy, good on him, and who knows what
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the resud you'll bring.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah, I felt about for Mackenzie Hughes. See, he had
had a part to win it had me on eighteen
which he missed that center to apply off. He had
a part which was closer than the other two to
win the playoff hole as well. Do you think the
most part to win the whole thing would have been
playing on his mind as he crouched over the put
in on the first playoff hole.
Speaker 5 (24:18):
You know, I think he's I mean, I think they
move on past that. You think you're thinking about it now,
But yeah, you've got to stay in the present. And
I mean he's good player. He's won a couple of
times on the on the US too, so he's not
un accustomed to that situation. But yeah, I mean, looking
back on it now, it's so ruined that you had
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your chances and you didn't take them. And and of
course Fox is in completely opposite this and he's looking back, Wow,
you know, I sort of had a chance and I
grabbed it by the scriptick and on on and upward, and.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Just to finish your talk before about the freedom that
the two year tour exemption will give him. Can you
just give us a bit of an idea of what
of what he can now do with the freedom of
the exemption.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Well, it just means you're not looking in the rear
view r. You know you're not You're not having to
protect you know, you're sort of person if you like it,
So you can just go out there and play and
play the schedule you want to play, and you know
we are with a view on how well can I
do and you know what can I add to that?
Rather than having in the back of your mind, you know,
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I've got to play, to play quite a lot just
to make sure I keep my playing right. So you know,
that just puts them in a different kettle. Fee will
take him a couple of weeks probably to get his
head around that. He's off to quite hollow tomorrow and
you know that'll be fresh in his mind. But yeah, boy,
it's made the rest of the season a lot simpler
the schedule.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Yeah, great day for Ryan Fox and for the game
of golf. Thanks so much, great for joining us to
unpack it for us. Really enjoyed the chat. Thank you,
Thank you. Great chess cheers, great Turner joining us on
Sports Talk with his thoughts. Before we move, Tony says,
get a ponty. What a great one for Ryan Fox,
A great grandfather and sport, a great dad and sport,
and now his greatest success as Ryan. I was lucky enough,
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says Tony, to catch it this morning and watched it
in tearful excitement. Hearing that he's one of just nine
to win a PGA two event also reminds us how
great our Livia Coe is with twenty three wins. It
certainly does, Tony, It certainly does twenty seven to eight.
We'll take a break. When we come back, we'll flick
across the basketball with the Tall Blacks beating Australia yesterday
for the first time in quite a while. It's a
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very rare thing, the Tall Blacks beating the Boomers as
they're called in a basketball game. Ruben Totangi led the
Tall Blacks yesterday to victory and Hamilton. He's going to
reflect on that with us right after this.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
Forget the ref's call, You make a call on eight
hundred and eighty eighty Sports Talk on your home of
Sports News Talks ABS Talks.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
Heb seven thirty six on News Talks here. But the
Tall Blacks struck back against the Australian Boomers yesterday winning
the third Trans Tasman Showdown basketball match one O six
to ninety seven at Globbox Arena and Hamilton captain Ruben
Toangy played a major roles score ring eighteen points.
Speaker 4 (27:08):
Tani was clear space, knocks down the three talk.
Speaker 10 (27:11):
Next league's five.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
We're going to time out team biking ten seconds on
the shot clock. Oh, Ruben, Only the captain steps up
and knocks down.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
The three two shots from the same spot.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
He has got it going earlier this one.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Yeah, Ruben Tarangi eighteen points and joins us now on
sports Talk. Thanks for the chat, Ruben, Congratulations on the win.
How satisfying was it to get a win against the
Australians after the defeats and the first two matches of
this Trans Tasman Throwdown series.
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Yeah, it was a good feeling. I think we took
a lot of lessons out of the first two games,
but we definite knew we could beat that team and
it was good to keep the win last night.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
What were the lessons you took? What did you do
better in game three.
Speaker 10 (27:56):
Obviously we meet some shots. We weren't shooting the wall
very well in those first couple of games, and maybe
a few shots we could set our defense and a
bit of defense. But then I think what we did
exceptional was we rebounded the ball well. We rerounded them
by quite a bit, so it went our way, I guess,
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And at the.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
End of the game, in terms of the start, you
started fast, You were really quick out of the blocks
and build up a good lead in the first quarter.
Was that intentional that you would really go hard at
them from the start.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
I don't think it was intentional, but we had the
intent to pick the pace up, and then on the
defensive there we just wanted to street the game up
for them and make them take tough, contested shots.
Speaker 2 (28:43):
The rebounding battle you talked about it there, the battle
of the boards is a large part of that mental
It's kind of like tackling and rugby, and that you
have to be willing to suffer a little bit in
the paint.
Speaker 10 (28:55):
I think that's that's what it comes down to. It
who wants to get in the fight more than the
other person. We offensive rebounded really well, so we were
taking it to them, and then on the defensive end,
we're heading bodies and making sure they were getting second chance.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Points, running it right down the box score. Taylor Brook
top scored for you twenty three points, nine rebounds. It
assists a good day out for him. Can you talk
a bit about Taylor Brook's contribution to this one?
Speaker 10 (29:22):
Yeah? No, he like the ball goes through him a lot,
and we expect him to make plays and we know
he can make those types of plays and yeah, like
he showed in the second game and that game, he
is definitely a good player and I'm going to be
a good player for a long time.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
And eighteen points for you personally, six of seven field
goal percentage, four from four three pointers. Did you just
feel better shooting the basketball yesterday?
Speaker 10 (29:49):
Yeah? I guess I did?
Speaker 4 (29:51):
You know?
Speaker 10 (29:51):
Playing in front of our home home crowd and in
front of our home fans, I think you know it
gives you that extra list and make sure how to
play a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
How often have you beat in Australia yourself? Personally?
Speaker 10 (30:03):
That was my second time?
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Whoilst two? Two times?
Speaker 4 (30:06):
Man?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
And they don't come along very often. You've got to
relish them, don't you.
Speaker 10 (30:10):
Yeah for sure. But also we actually don't play them
too much, Like since we moved into Asia for our qualifying,
we don't actually get to play them as much as
we do. So I think these series, well, hopefully they'll
continue and we can play more games in front of
our bands.
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Absolutely. Look, I think everybody would agree that that would
be a great idea. And you said before, you don't
it doesn't feel to you, Ruben, as though you're that
far off them.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
Well, yeah, I guess the team we played last night, yeah,
I think. I mean we play against him all year
in the NBL, and then yeah, I think if we
do those things, we make sures and we rebound the ball,
I think we're a good team and we can put
up a good player.
Speaker 2 (30:52):
And just as far as the Tall Blacks roster is concerned,
there's a bit of youth coming through now as well,
the likes of Jackson Ball and Oscar Goodman involved in
this series. Do you feel like there is a new
wave of young players coming through at the moment.
Speaker 10 (31:06):
Yeah, I'm I think what they like. A couple of
those boys are at the Under seventeen World Cup and
they came forth there, so there's there's going to be
some good boys that take over in the next term,
so just hopefully leave it in a better place. And
I came into and when.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
When young guys like that come into the environment, I
would imagine it could potentially be a bit daunting for them,
although you know they're they're obviously, you know, ready to
make that step in the eyes of the coaches and selectors.
How do you how do you go about making sure
that they're assimilated nice and comfortably into the Tall Blacks environment.
Speaker 10 (31:40):
I feel like it's not that hard. I feel like
we were all from New Zealand, so we all have
similar backgrounds and we all kind of get each other's jokes.
So I feel like they fit in pretty easily. And
all all of those kids coming through, they're awesome kids,
and yeah, they work hard and fit in really well.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Look forward to seeing a lot more of them. And
for you, you talk about playing on home court back
to the Breakers. This year, the club you played over
one hundred games for won a couple of championships with
I know the fans are looking forward to having you back.
How much you're looking forward to getting back in a
Breakers singlet?
Speaker 10 (32:14):
I'm excited, you know, just like I said, playing in
front of fans, and then yeah, I guess also been
around family as well. For me, I've been away for
ten years and just be good to be around family
as well well.
Speaker 2 (32:30):
Congrats on the win yesterday, all the best for what
lies ahead in the immediate future. Look forward to seeing
you in a Breakers singlet soon, Ruben. Thanks for the
chat tonight, mate.
Speaker 10 (32:38):
No, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (32:39):
Thank you, No, thank you, Rubin. Rubin Todangy there from
the toll Backs, Towllbacks captain leading them to victory yesterday
against the Boomers, and as mentioned there at the end,
coming back to the Breakers. He had four or five
years twenty twelve through twenty sixteen at the Breakers. He's
been at a couple or three A and BL clubs
in the time since, over three hundred and fifty Australian
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National Basketball League games. Ruben Todangy'd be great to have
him back in a Breakers singlet. Sam says Piney, I'm
very here, very happy to here. Reuben almost emphasizing the
word lessons when he was talking to you about what
they learned in their two losses. They were handed lessons,
not learnings. Honesty with his words and the team looked
like they learned their lessons. Sam I thought exactly that
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when he said it, I thought he emphasized we took
some good lessons because this word that has become blight
on us learnings will take our learnings. No, you're right, Sam,
it's lessons. It's lessons. Piney's power rankings to come shortly.
The big news in the last hour or so in
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the spawn world is the fact that legendary Indian batsman
Verant Cohley has announced his immediate retirement from Test cricket.
Now this comes before this summer's five Tests of England,
that's the Northern Summer, of course, which starts on the
twentieth of June. It follows Captain Rowat Shalma's retirement on Wednesday.
So Sharma and now Cohlei have both hung up the whites.
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Coley's thirty six. He's played one hundred and twenty three
Test matches for India, nine two hundred and thirty runs
at an average of forty six point eight five. He
retired from T twenty internationals last year after India's World
Cup victory. He is expected to continue playing One day
internationals for India he debuted in Test matches against the
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West Indies in twenty eleven, went on to captain India
in sixty eight of his one hundred and twenty three Tests,
with his forty wins in charge, making him the country's
most successful Test captain. He's long been regarded, of course,
as one of the four batting greats of his own era,
alongside Joe Root, Steve Smith and our own came Williamson.
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Thirty Test centuries for Verat Kohli, but his most recent
one one hundred night out in the first Test against
Australia in November was his first in fifteen innings across
sixteen months. Only three centuries in thirty nine Test matches
since January twenty twenty, and in that time he averages
just to tick over thirty. So the back end of
his Test area not quite as prolific as the front end.
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But he will retire as one of Test cricket's greats,
one of Indian crickets greats, and still more to come
in the fifty over format. For the rat COLI seven
forty five, let's get a breakaway when we come back.
Party's Power rankings for the weekend.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Our rankings.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yes, indeed time for Party's Power Rankings, our Monday night
feature rating the best, the worst and the in between.
Bits from the sporting weekend Let's go Nottingham Forest owner
evangelist Marinacus who stormed onto the pitch to confront his
manager Nuno Espirito Sento after Forest drew to all with
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Leicester City this morning.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
Marinakis not happy, clearly I'm saying a few words in
the direction of Nuno Spedo son to the Forest manager.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
Pretty unprecedented scenes here after the sensational season Forest have
had and Santo's part in that it was very poor
formed from their owner who looked like had been enjoying
a little bit too much of his own hospitality by
the way sign the West Tigers and absolute humiliation at
the hands of the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
What in afternoon it has been the perfect show appropriately
from the Melbourne Storm at full time.
Speaker 2 (36:29):
They've taken down the Tigers or sixty four points to them,
that's right, sixty four nil. Incredibly, that was the third
time the Storm have beaten the Tigers sixty four nil.
They did it in two thousand and one and again
last season. Sat Kiwi cyclist Dion Smith striking a somewhat
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unique problem on the one hundred and sixty kilometer third
stage of the eurod Italian hiay yay.
Speaker 4 (36:56):
Yay yay riter. That was just about taking out there.
Speaker 11 (37:00):
That's the key where that was Dion Smith and we're
not even at the King of the Mountains points hit
the goats all ready in the thick of the action.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
Yeah you heard that right. That is Dion Smith colliding
with a goat. Seven City Kickboxing's Nahavo Sterling, continuing his
ascent in the light heavyweight division.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
The judges scored the contest Ony Night, What he eight,
Ony Night?
Speaker 5 (37:23):
What he eight?
Speaker 4 (37:24):
At twenty night twenty.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Seven for the winner Are you damous decision?
Speaker 6 (37:30):
No star.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Yep, it says second UFC win with a unanimous decision
nod over Croatia's Ivan Ursulin at UFC three one five
in Montreal six. Chris Wood a twentieth goal of the
Premier League season for him.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Keeps weie what opacities forward for what about it say
sleeper for his goal the my show with the assis
and the poacher with the finish.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
The All White Skippers diving head early in the second half.
His eighteen ninth Premier League goal of all time five.
The Chiefs back to the top of the Super Rugby table.
Speaker 11 (38:15):
Road get set to touch and the Chicks come to
christ Church and make a real statement of intense and
the Super Rugby competition. From sixteen points down, they win
by sixteen thirty five nineteen four.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
Staying with the Chiefs, it's their coach Clayton McMillan with
a unique motivation method for his side after they lost
the Hurricanes last time out. He's quintupi with the details.
We sat in the change rooms after the Hurricanes game
and listen to them sing their song. Next door, Don
turned our speaker off and we all sat there and
listen to it and it sort of filled us. Master
(38:53):
motivator Clayton McMillan, Can we drive a Matt pain taking
the check and flag and raise three of the Tasmania
Super four forty? This call me the win of all
miracle time in supercartive you could get.
Speaker 8 (39:07):
Heady get.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
A win by point zero five seconds, the sports third
closest winning margin ever. Payne remains third in the championship
behind Brock Feenie and Will Brown, who two's the Warriors
four straight wins. An outright second on the NRL Ladder
after their narrow victory over the Dragons. Courtesy of this he.
Speaker 11 (39:34):
Is thinking one pointer and he's got it.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
It stays inside the right upright they go early. Metcalf
takes them one, and they were number one up until
this morning one when Ryan Fox took top on as
a PGA Tour winner for the very first time with
a chip and for Birdie on the first hole in
a three way sudden death playoff at the Myrtle Beach
(40:00):
Tournament in South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (40:06):
It's gimped in a Ryan Ryan Fox, fantastic a ho Well,
Bernie been the first playoff hole.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Now, I can't imagine you'd have too many issues with
Piney's power rankings tonight. You know I've I've chipped in
for Verdie before.
Speaker 8 (40:26):
You have not I have, and I.
Speaker 2 (40:30):
Haven't done it in a playoff hole.
Speaker 6 (40:32):
I celebrated louder when Ryan Fixed chipped in than I
have when i've when I've done it before anyway, And
Deon Smith, are you telling me he he collided with
Eddie Murks.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
The Goats. He collided with Dame Lisa Carrington. I don't
know what she was doing up there. All right, Well,
it's good to know that you've chipped in. Ryan Fox
tipped in for one point two million. Those are Piney's
Power Rankings. They're back next Monday night, four to eight,
just before I go. If you like your sport, and well,
if you're listening to the show, presumably you at least
(41:05):
don't hate it and you've been held hostage by somebody
who's listening into sports Talk tonight. If you like your sport,
could I recommend to you the Sports Fixed podcast. It
comes out Monday through Friday, sort of mid afternoon, sort
of three thirty four o'clock. It's a mix of sports news, interviews, opinion,
a little bit of robust debate, and lots of other
things as well. It's about sort of eighteen to twenty
(41:26):
minutes most of the time, so pretty good for you
drive home if that's how long you drive home takes,
or perhaps some of you drive home. Sports Fix. It
is called If you search for it on your podcast platform,
hopefully you'll find it and hopefully you'll like it. Huge
thanks to any McDonald for producing the show today and
across the weekend. Top Stuff made have a good couple
of days off. Marcus Lush is on the radio after
(41:49):
eight and we're back on Weekend Sport from midday on Saturday.
Have an excellent week, take it easy, life and.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
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