{"id":808807,"date":"2026-07-18T19:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T19:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T19:46:11","slug":"open-championship-2026-ryan-fox-makes-major-history-of-his-own-with-saturday-62-australian-golf-digest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/808807\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Championship 2026: Ryan Fox makes major history of his own with Saturday 62 \u2013 Australian Golf Digest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Fox, welcome to the 62 Club.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old New Zealander added his name to a quickly growing historical list during Saturday\u2019s third round at the British Open by shooting 62.<\/p>\n<p>Fox became just the eighth man to shoot that score in a major championship, but the third to do it this week at Royal Birkdale, where a lack of wind has produced favorable scoring positions. Fox follwed the Friday 62s of Lucas Herbert and Sam Burns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re out in the morning, when the wind\u2019s down around here, there\u2019s almost some pressure on to shoot a score,\u201d Fox told reporters after. \u201cIt was nice. . . . I would have taken 62 on a Saturday, that\u2019s for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TAKE A BOW, RYAN FOX \u270d\ufe0f\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddff<\/p>\n<p>The Kiwi equals the low round in men&#8217;s major history with an amazing 62 at Royal Birkdale <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcfa NBC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bsjbJshboS\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bsjbJshboS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GolfChannel\/status\/2078473850564596156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fox shot a front-nine 29 on Saturday before adding another birdie at No. 10. His momentum was momentarily stalled by a bogey on No. 13, but he responded with three more birdies and a nerve-racking par on 18 that involved an approach shot from a fairway bunker that came dangerously close to catching the lip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, standing on the last tee, I\u2019m going if I can get one on the fairway here, you can get a wedge or a 9-iron in and have a putt for 61,\u201d Fox said. \u201cI was pretty happy to have that 40-footer out of the fairway trap. Didn\u2019t hit a great first putt, but I was very happy the second one went in the middle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, Fox moved from even par to eight under and in a share of the lead as he finished his third round about an hour before the leaders teed off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went in there with a pretty aggressive strategy the whole day and did the same thing yesterday and played pretty decently,\u201d Fox said. \u201cSo I\u2019ll try to do the same thing tomorrow and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Fox, welcome to the 62 Club. The 39-year-old New Zealander added his name to a quickly growing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[4225,64,63,755,138747,85],"class_list":["post-808807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-article","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-golf-digest","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}