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New Zealanders Wake to a New Major Champion, Heap Praise on Ryan Fox
Fox sank a 12-foot birdie on the final hole to win by one shot and join three other New Zealand major champions.
- On Monday, Ryan Fox won The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, sinking a 12-foot birdie putt to win by one shot. The 39-year-old becomes New Zealand's fourth major golf champion.
- Fox, a third-generation sporting champion, descends from athletic lineage: his father Grant Fox was an All Blacks star and 1987 Rugby World Cup winner, while his grandfather Merv Wallace captained the New Zealand cricket team.
- Sir Bob Charles, 90, New Zealand's first major winner in 1963, praised Fox's pace of play, while 2005 champion Michael Campbell called the effort "an incredible feat... to beat the world's best players in a difficult situation."
- New Zealanders celebrated the triumph by watching Fox lift the Claret Jug on television; club captain Ian Blair praised him as "you couldn't find a nicer guy and more worthy champion golfer."
- Fox joins Sir Bob Charles, Michael Campbell, and Lydia as New Zealand's only major winners. His victory coincided with the cricket team's series win over the West Indies in the Caribbean.
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