July 19, 2026 • 8 mins
Jason Pine of Newstalk ZB looks at Ryan Fox writing his name into NZ sporting history recently.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Welcome back to the Muster Fox on the Run, as
the name of the song by Sweet of course, the
one and only Ryan Fox putting himself up in lights
for the right reason this morning by winning the open.
Jason Pine hosts a weekend sport on News Talks ZB
joins us Piney, good afternoon. Is not very often, they'll Blacks.
Having a comprehensive victory on a Saturday is put to
(00:30):
the bottom of the sporting column. But that's what we've
seen today.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, I guess you look at how often something like
this happens, Andy, and good afternoon to you, and you think, well,
it's so uncommon. You know, he's joined a very very
exclusive club. Ryan Fox of kiwis two of one golf
major Sir Bob Charles, Michael Campbell, Dame Lydia Coe, and
now Ryan Fox adds himself to that list. And look,
(00:58):
I think everybody who watched through the night, or woke
up this morning to see the back end, or just
heard about it and have been watching it back would
say that this was an absolutely tremendous performance from Ryan Fox.
We saw him shoot the sixty two in the third round,
which catapulted him up from fifty first on the leaderboard
(01:20):
to a tie for second, and we wondered was that
possible again another low round and Ryan Fox went out
there and did exactly that. So look, one of New
Zealand's great sports people, one of New Zealand's great humans. Actually,
anyone who's had anything to do with Ryan Fox will
testify to that. And to see him lifting that claret
(01:41):
jug this morning was really really heartwarming and a great
way to start the week.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Where does this rank and Kiwi sporting achievements right up there,
right up there.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean, you think of as I said before, only
only three others have done it. And you know, in
the history of golfing, mate, you know, there's only a
couple of hundred winners of major tournaments in the entire
history of golf. And we're talking a global sport here, Andy.
You know, it's a sport that's played in pretty much
every country in the world, from your weekend hackers up
(02:15):
to your your leading amateurs and then into the professional ranks.
And there are so many professional golfers and those just
bubbling under who have designs on just making it into
one of these professional tours, let alone playing in a major.
Let alone winning a major, so it's rarefied air. I think,
(02:37):
no matter what happens for the rest of twenty twenty six,
we've got our Hellberg winner. For twenty twenty seven, everybody
else will have to play second fiddle because this is
one of the great New Zealand sporting achievements.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What does this mean for Ryan Fox going forward?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, a lot of money to start. I don't think
that'll bother him too much. He's earned plenty of that
and there's got him very comfortable. The big thing it
earns and andy is the exemptions. I think he's got
pretty much got a lifetime entry now into the Open
Championship by virtue of being one of its winners. He's also,
as I understand, he've got a five year exemption into
(03:15):
all of the other majors as well. So he knows
he's going to Augusta for the next five years. He
knows he's going to the US Open for the next
five years, he knows he's going he's going to the
PGA Championship for the next five years. So that alone
just gives him so much, you know, comfort around his planning.
He knows he can put those in the calendar and
then he doesn't have to go off to every you know,
(03:37):
every other golf tournament across across a season, and so
I'd better play there and get some points to try
and make the Masters or try and make these majors.
It just gives them so much more freedom to plan
his his golfing calendar. You know, it's and this is
a guy I forget the Sandy. He hadn't up until
last year, he hadn't won on the PGA Tour. You know,
(03:58):
he had been had been on the European Tour for
a long time. The PGA Tour he was quite new to.
But he never won on the PGA Tour. And then
all of a sudden, in the space of a month
he won twice. And I just wonder how much confidence
that gave him, and also how much of a frame
of reference it gave him this weekend when he knew
what it was like to be in contention to win
a big golf tournament and look, this is bigger than
(04:21):
a win at the Canadian Open and such like. But
even so, just having had that experience of being in
touch on the final day of a golf tournament like
he has been, I just wonder whether that was a
big part of this today as well.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That final hole of the eighteenth he said to us, Keddy,
we're just going to attack because I want to win
this thing. That's nerves of steel. How he managed to
do that is beyond me.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, and that's two of is like he could have
parted that hole and gone into a playoff. He knew
that if he parted, and it's a very I mean
for these guys anyway, it's a pretty straightforward part four.
But he went no, no, I'll get a t shot in
the middle of the fairway. And then the the most
important one is probably the approach, his iron shot that
takes him to within three and a half meters of
(05:05):
the hole. And then he rarely, I guess, knew that
he had a couple of goyes at it. He could
eat a burdie it with the whole thing. Even if
he took two parts that he'd be into a playoff.
But now he went right at the hole. He said afterwards, look,
I don't know how I hold that birdie. My hands
all over the place. I didn't really know where I was,
but I guess muscle memory takes over and when that
(05:25):
ball drops you know, just the elation. You know, they
put so much into it, These guys and girls who
play on the at the very top level. You know,
you think about it and you know how often you
win a golf tournament. It is so infrequent, you know,
we can weak out. These players are trying to make
cuts and to finish as harp as they can to
earn points, to earn money, and it's it's never a
(05:48):
straight line. So when that ball drops, it's not just
I've won this tournament this weekend. It's everything else that
has gone into getting him to where he is now.
And that to me is you know, was was on
display when the you know, he's pretty understated guy, Ryan
fox you know he's he's never going to be one
for hoping and hollering too much, but you could tell
just how much it meant to ham and rightly so
(06:10):
you know, in that moment and in the interviews he's
done afterwards, it's, yeah, he's what a great what a
great representative of New Zealand, Ryan Foxes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Just to wrap up piety, how would you how would
you summarize the FIFA World Cup Spain getting the accolades
one knower in the final, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was the right result. In the final, Argentina clearly
had a game plan which didn't really involve playing too
much football, you know. For them not to have a shot,
not just a shot on target, but a shot at
all in ninety minutes just tells the tale of a very,
very one sided final. Spain scored with their twentieth shot,
(06:48):
so really was Argentiny and goalkeeper Emmy Martinez who kept
his side in it. Alene Messi had very little impact.
I think that's a big part of this. We know
how much he can impact type football matches. I think
Spain right throughout the tournament were the best team. France
caught a lot of eyes, but when the two of
them collided in the semi final, it was Spain who
did a job defensively on France. And they say defense
(07:11):
wins championships in any sport. To concede just one goal
in eight games across a World Cup, those are championship credentials.
So yep, I think the right team is lifting the
trophy at the end of it. Say what you like
about the size of the tournament, the length of the tournament,
and all the sort of extraneous thing the things that
happen around it, including this morning's rather bizarre halftime show
(07:34):
which took about thirty minutes. But the football itself I've
loved and you know, I think the quality of it
has been has been very, very good, and we've got
a worthy winner at the end of itself. We just
look at the football. I think you can probably say
it's been a success.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Jason Pine, weekend sports host on Newstalk ZEB. Thanks as
always no doubt. Tonight at seven o'clock on ZB to
be more commentary around Foxy Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Looking order that Andy Goods chat has always made laugh
out loud with ad proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
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female fly lounging on a pile of cowpat The male
fly sweeps down next to her and says, excuse me, love,
but is a still taken?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Right? That's us for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The podcast will be up shortly thanks to iHeartRadio. I'm
Andy Muller. The Muster's brought to you by Peter Genetics.
Enjoy the afternoon, See you tomorrow. There's nothing to say,
Welcome back to the Muster Fox on the Run, as
the name of the song by Sweet of course, the
one and only Ryan Fox putting himself up in lights
for the right reason this morning by winning the open.
Jason Pine hosts a weekend sport on News Talks ZB
joins us Piney, good afternoon. Is not very often, they'll Blacks.
Having a comprehensive victory on a Saturday is put to
(00:30):
the bottom of the sporting column. But that's what we've
seen today.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Well, I guess you look at how often something like
this happens, Andy, and good afternoon to you, and you think, well,
it's so uncommon. You know, he's joined a very very
exclusive club. Ryan Fox of kiwis two of one golf
major Sir Bob Charles, Michael Campbell, Dame Lydia Coe, and
now Ryan Fox adds himself to that list. And look,
(00:58):
I think everybody who watched through the night, or woke
up this morning to see the back end, or just
heard about it and have been watching it back would
say that this was an absolutely tremendous performance from Ryan Fox.
We saw him shoot the sixty two in the third round,
which catapulted him up from fifty first on the leaderboard
(01:20):
to a tie for second, and we wondered was that
possible again another low round and Ryan Fox went out
there and did exactly that. So look, one of New
Zealand's great sports people, one of New Zealand's great humans. Actually,
anyone who's had anything to do with Ryan Fox will
testify to that. And to see him lifting that claret
(01:41):
jug this morning was really really heartwarming and a great
way to start the week.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Where does this rank and Kiwi sporting achievements right up there,
right up there.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I mean, you think of as I said before, only
only three others have done it. And you know, in
the history of golfing, mate, you know, there's only a
couple of hundred winners of major tournaments in the entire
history of golf. And we're talking a global sport here, Andy.
You know, it's a sport that's played in pretty much
every country in the world, from your weekend hackers up
(02:15):
to your your leading amateurs and then into the professional ranks.
And there are so many professional golfers and those just
bubbling under who have designs on just making it into
one of these professional tours, let alone playing in a major.
Let alone winning a major, so it's rarefied air. I think,
(02:37):
no matter what happens for the rest of twenty twenty six,
we've got our Hellberg winner. For twenty twenty seven, everybody
else will have to play second fiddle because this is
one of the great New Zealand sporting achievements.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
What does this mean for Ryan Fox going forward?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Well, a lot of money to start. I don't think
that'll bother him too much. He's earned plenty of that
and there's got him very comfortable. The big thing it
earns and andy is the exemptions. I think he's got
pretty much got a lifetime entry now into the Open
Championship by virtue of being one of its winners. He's also,
as I understand, he've got a five year exemption into
(03:15):
all of the other majors as well. So he knows
he's going to Augusta for the next five years. He
knows he's going to the US Open for the next
five years, he knows he's going he's going to the
PGA Championship for the next five years. So that alone
just gives him so much, you know, comfort around his planning.
He knows he can put those in the calendar and
then he doesn't have to go off to every you know,
(03:37):
every other golf tournament across across a season, and so
I'd better play there and get some points to try
and make the Masters or try and make these majors.
It just gives them so much more freedom to plan
his his golfing calendar. You know, it's and this is
a guy I forget the Sandy. He hadn't up until
last year, he hadn't won on the PGA Tour. You know,
(03:58):
he had been had been on the European Tour for
a long time. The PGA Tour he was quite new to.
But he never won on the PGA Tour. And then
all of a sudden, in the space of a month
he won twice. And I just wonder how much confidence
that gave him, and also how much of a frame
of reference it gave him this weekend when he knew
what it was like to be in contention to win
a big golf tournament and look, this is bigger than
(04:21):
a win at the Canadian Open and such like. But
even so, just having had that experience of being in
touch on the final day of a golf tournament like
he has been, I just wonder whether that was a
big part of this today as well.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
That final hole of the eighteenth he said to us, Keddy,
we're just going to attack because I want to win
this thing. That's nerves of steel. How he managed to
do that is beyond me.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Yeah, and that's two of is like he could have
parted that hole and gone into a playoff. He knew
that if he parted, and it's a very I mean
for these guys anyway, it's a pretty straightforward part four.
But he went no, no, I'll get a t shot in
the middle of the fairway. And then the the most
important one is probably the approach, his iron shot that
takes him to within three and a half meters of
(05:05):
the hole. And then he rarely, I guess, knew that
he had a couple of goyes at it. He could
eat a burdie it with the whole thing. Even if
he took two parts that he'd be into a playoff.
But now he went right at the hole. He said afterwards, look,
I don't know how I hold that birdie. My hands
all over the place. I didn't really know where I was,
but I guess muscle memory takes over and when that
(05:25):
ball drops you know, just the elation. You know, they
put so much into it, These guys and girls who
play on the at the very top level. You know,
you think about it and you know how often you
win a golf tournament. It is so infrequent, you know,
we can weak out. These players are trying to make
cuts and to finish as harp as they can to
earn points, to earn money, and it's it's never a
(05:48):
straight line. So when that ball drops, it's not just
I've won this tournament this weekend. It's everything else that
has gone into getting him to where he is now.
And that to me is you know, was was on
display when the you know, he's pretty understated guy, Ryan
fox you know he's he's never going to be one
for hoping and hollering too much, but you could tell
just how much it meant to ham and rightly so
(06:10):
you know, in that moment and in the interviews he's
done afterwards, it's, yeah, he's what a great what a
great representative of New Zealand, Ryan Foxes.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Just to wrap up piety, how would you how would
you summarize the FIFA World Cup Spain getting the accolades
one knower in the final, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
It was the right result. In the final, Argentina clearly
had a game plan which didn't really involve playing too
much football, you know. For them not to have a shot,
not just a shot on target, but a shot at
all in ninety minutes just tells the tale of a very,
very one sided final. Spain scored with their twentieth shot,
(06:48):
so really was Argentiny and goalkeeper Emmy Martinez who kept
his side in it. Alene Messi had very little impact.
I think that's a big part of this. We know
how much he can impact type football matches. I think
Spain right throughout the tournament were the best team. France
caught a lot of eyes, but when the two of
them collided in the semi final, it was Spain who
did a job defensively on France. And they say defense
(07:11):
wins championships in any sport. To concede just one goal
in eight games across a World Cup, those are championship credentials.
So yep, I think the right team is lifting the
trophy at the end of it. Say what you like
about the size of the tournament, the length of the tournament,
and all the sort of extraneous thing the things that
happen around it, including this morning's rather bizarre halftime show
(07:34):
which took about thirty minutes. But the football itself I've
loved and you know, I think the quality of it
has been has been very, very good, and we've got
a worthy winner at the end of itself. We just
look at the football. I think you can probably say
it's been a success.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Jason Pine, weekend sports host on Newstalk ZEB. Thanks as
always no doubt. Tonight at seven o'clock on ZB to
be more commentary around Foxy Yep.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Looking order that Andy Goods chat has always made laugh
out loud with ad proud because life on the land
can be a laughing matter.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Brought to us by sheer Well Data working to help
the livestock farmer. A male fly notices a rather attractive
female fly lounging on a pile of cowpat The male
fly sweeps down next to her and says, excuse me, love,
but is a still taken?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Right? That's us for the afternoon.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
The podcast will be up shortly thanks to iHeartRadio. I'm
Andy Muller. The Muster's brought to you by Peter Genetics.
Enjoy the afternoon, See you tomorrow. There's nothing to say,
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