Kiwi Ryan Fox is now a two-time PGA TOUR winner in 2025 following his victory on the RBC Canadian Open.
WITH his nationwide soccer crew watching on, Kiwi Ryan Fox has received his second US PGA TOUR occasion within the house of 4 begins with a memorable victory within the RBC Canadian Open.
Sealing the win with what he described as the most effective shot of his life, Fox outlasted American Sam Burns on the fourth gap of a sudden-death playoff, together with his three-wood from 269 yards settling simply two metres from the outlet.
Whereas he would miss the eagle attempt, a three-putt par from Burns and a faucet in birdie from Fox was sufficient to say victory, achieved whereas the New Zealand’s All Whites soccer crew cheered on from a marquee adjoining to the 18th inexperienced.
“It’s the most effective shot I’ve ever hit in my life. There’s nothing near that,” stated Fox.
“We had a pair scrappy holes there, after which to hit the shot I hit on 18 on the fourth playoff, it was fairly surreal.”
Already by to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the All Whites defeated African champions Ivory Coast 1-0 in Toronto a day earlier than Fox’s win, capping an impressive weekend for New Zealand sport.
“To have the Kiwi assist on the market, it was nice. They have been there all day,” stated Fox, “To have the ability to meet all of them there on the finish and get a photograph with them was fairly particular.”
Fox jumped from 119 to 32 on the Official World Golf Rating on account of the Canadian Open win and his victory on the Myrtle Seaside Basic a month prior.
One other win for Niemann
IN the June 2025 version, Inside Golf trumpeted the achievements of Joaquin Niemann after he had received his third event on the LIV Golf Tour in 2025 and his fifth since becoming a member of the breakaway {golfing} circuit in the beginning of the 2024 season.
A month on from the third win got here a fourth as Niemann’s domination of LIV continued, the Chilean claiming victory on the LIV Golf Virginia occasion.
Niemann shot a scorching bogey-free 8-under 63 within the remaining spherical, for a 15-under par whole, one shot higher than Graeme McDowell and Anirban Lahiri, with the 26-year-old turning into the winningest particular person golfer in LIV Golf historical past with six titles, all in his final 21 regular-season begins.
In his 4 wins in 2025 Niemann is a mixed 27-under in remaining rounds, whereas the victory in Virginia was his first within the US, his earlier triumphs coming in Adelaide, Singapore and Mexico Metropolis. Final 12 months he received in Mayakoba and Jeddah.
Sadly, Niemann wasn’t in a position to take his scorching type from Virginia to Oakmont and the US Open the week following, the place he missed the 36-hole minimize.
Subsequent up for LIV and for Niemann was a event in Dallas in the direction of the top of June, earlier than occasions in Spain and the UK flanking The Open Championship.
Was Oakmont a US Open farewell for Phil?
Six runner-up placings, with out a win, Phil Mickelson might have made his final US Open look.
AFTER back-to-back rounds of four-over par 74 at Oakmont, a rating that might see him miss the minimize by only one shot, and at 55 years of age, Phil Mickelson might have performed his final US Open.
With this the ultimate 12 months of the five-year US Open exemption earned together with his victory within the 2021 PGA Championship, and now competing on the LIV Tour the place world rankings factors aren’t awarded, Mickelson has restricted alternative to qualify for the 2026 occasion at Shinnecock Hills.
And judging by the response to questions directed at USGA officers throughout a press convention early within the week at Oakmont, all indications are that Mickelson has little likelihood of being granted a particular exemption in 12 months’ time.
Due to this fact the 2025 staging of the occasion has possible introduced down the curtain on presumably probably the most exceptional US Open profession by a participant by no means to have received.
Mickelson first performed the US Open in 1990 as an newbie, ending twenty ninth in his debut look, he would play in 33 extra, solely lacking the 2017 event when he stayed house to attend his daughter Amanda’s highschool commencement.
He was a runner up an unimaginable six instances, a type of events a double bogey on the 72nd gap noticed him lose to Australian Geoff Ogilvy in 2006, one other when the late Payne Stewart beat Mickelson with a birdie on the ultimate gap at Pinehurst in 1999.
Outspoken and considerably polarising, particularly since his defection to the LIV Tour, Mickelson bids a possible farewell to the occasion as considered one of 17 gamers to win three totally different majors, however with out the ultimate piece to the Grand Slam puzzle.
Winners
Congratulations to the Inside Golf readers who would be the recipients of the just lately launched e-book, Ian Baker-FInch: To Hell and Again.
Written by Geoff Saunders, the authorised biography, the primary written concerning the in style Queenslander, particulars Baker-Finch’s {golfing} beginnings, his days as a younger skilled, his Open Championship triumph in 1991, {the golfing} struggles that adopted, and to his 25 years within the US as a tv analyst.
It’s an excellent learn, one which the next record of Inside Golf readers, winners of a duplicate of To Hell and Again, are positive to get pleasure from.
Rosalyn TooheyTullamarine, VIC
Peter KeoghHuskisson, NSW
Darrell MargerisonNudgee, QLD
Craig WilsonMoore Creek, NSW
Paul DignanNovar Gardens, SA
And in the event you missed out on profitable a duplicate of To Hell and Again, it’s now out there in bookshops all over the place.
