Ryan Fox on His Unique Path to Pro Golf and Playing on the World's Biggest Stages

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

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Golf, Sports

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Andy and Joseph kick off the episode by discussing what they are IN and OUT on this week. Then World No. 42 Ryan Fox joins Andy and Joseph to talk about his unique path into professional golf after not playing a competitive tournament until age 18. He talks about his experiences traveling the world to compete across multiple global tours, playing in his first Masters while fighting pneumonia, missing out on the Presidents Cup, playing in the Olympics, and more. Andy and Joseph close out the episode with Recommendations.

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0:00.0	I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg
0:06.8	fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie
0:11.8	I'm about ready to run off the golf course Oh, Welcome back to another edition of the Friday Golf Podcast. I am your host Andy Johnson and
0:41.7	today I'm excited. We got a top 50 player in the world on the
0:45.7	podcast where we have an interview with Ryan Fox, the New Zealander, the Kiwi, who's had a really great run the last couple of years and is playing full-time
0:55.9	on the PGA tour this year for the first year.
0:59.4	So we talked to Foxy about his travels as kind of you know different path into into the game of
1:06.9	golf I think is this is unique you didn't really start playing
1:09.6	competitively until age 18 and a lot of other things. So that was a treat that Joseph and I did that
1:19.1	interview last week but first let's do in and out. Joseph, what are you in on?
1:25.0	Andy, this was a little bit of a slow golf week,
1:27.0	so I had to stretch for the in and out a little bit,
1:30.1	but I'm a small thing.
1:32.1	I'm in on live enforcing a pace of play penalty on Adrian Murunk this past weekend
1:38.0	comes the same week that the cognizant classic or the Honda depending on how you refer to it to each of their own.
1:46.3	Kind of neutered the golf course a little bit and golfers were taking it super deep.
1:50.1	They said, I guess the consensus seems to be with the PJ Tour set up this week that they didn't want guys to have to go through three really tough weeks in a row in Florida.
1:58.0	And I don't know how much legitimacy there is to that.
2:02.0	That doesn't seem like a great reason to neuter a setup.
2:04.5	So I think the same week that Live is enforcing a pace of play penalty.
2:08.8	PJ Tour is kind of a soft setup where guys are taking it super deep.
2:12.0	Look, competitiveness is going to drive what people want to watch so I think live taking a step in that direction they it's not their first pace of play penalty they've enforced but kind of nice to see competition being preserved a little bit that way even though I have some other issues with the way
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