FLYING FOX
Golf Monthly|January 2023
With two wins and a string of top-ten finishes, the big-hitting 35-year-old Kiwi has scaled new heights on the DP World Tour in 2022
FLYING FOX

We all know it’s easy to write headlines for Ryan Fox when he’s playing well, as he has been fairly often of late. He’s won twice this season, finished runner-up four times, 3rd once, and placed in the top ten on three more occasions – all of which has helped him to amass the tidy sum of €3.3 million. Having started the year just outside the top 200 in the world, by mid-October he had soared to a career-high 23rd.

Until this year, Fox’s only victory on the DP World Tour had come Down Under, at the ISPS Handa World Super 6 Perth in early 2019. This season, however, the Kiwi has taken his game to a whole new level, and the two further titles that he’s added to his resumé include what you might call a big one’ the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Fox's consistency this year also put him in contention to win the DP World Tour's Race to Dubai crown, something he admits he never would have expected at the start of the year. He wasn't able to do something special” around the Earth course at the DP

World Tour Championship in mid-November and overhaul Rory Mcllroy at the top, but he still has a case to add his name to the list of New Zealand's greatest ever sportsmen a list that includes his father, Grant Fox, the legendary fly-half who helped kick the All Blacks to glory at the inaugural rugby union World Cup back in 1987.

“It’s easily the biggest win of my career so far,” Fox says of his one-shot victory at the Dunhill Links, where Mclilroy had come into his rear-view mirror on the back nine to really crank up the pressure. To beat a strong field like that, it certainly means a lot.”

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