Fox claims maiden major title as birdie on 18th seals Open triumph
· Yahoo Sports
New Zealander Ryan Fox kept his head while all around him were losing theirs to make his major breakthrough at the age of 39 with a brilliant birdie at the last for a one-shot victory at the Open.
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He was one of only three players in the final 12 groups to shoot under par on a chaotic final day on Sunday when Royal Birkdale finally showed its teeth after two days of back-to-back record-equalling rounds of 62.
After Cameron Young posted the nine-under target after a best-of-the-day 64 a couple of hours earlier, double figures was the aim for those out on the course.
Fox headed down the last – Birkdale’s most difficult hole – needing a birdie to overtake the US golfer, for so long the PGA Tour’s perennial runner-up, and hit his approach inside 12 feet.
The son of All Blacks fly-half Grant held his nerve, as he had done all day, and punched the air as he became New Zealand’s second Open champion after Bob Charles in 1963.