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Ryan Fox\u2019s Birkdale triumph has opened up a new level of fame for the modest Kiwi. (EPA PHOTO)<\/p>\nAt his press conference ahead of the BMW Championship, Ryan Fox recited the ways his life has changed since he won the British Open last month.<\/p>\n
Er, starting with the fact that he was actually having a press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I\u2019m sitting here,\u201d the incredulous 39-year-old \u200cNew Zealander told reporters at the Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.<\/p>\n
Ryan Fox\u2019s Birkdale triumph has opened up a new level of fame for the modest Kiwi. (EPA PHOTO)<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t done a press conference for an event pretty much all year. It\u2019s just \u200cnow everything\u2019s busier.<\/p>\n
\u201cComing out of the hotel this week I got stopped going to dinner like five times to sign an autograph.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cLike, that has never really \u200chappened. It might happen obviously on the golf course, but not just randomly at the hotel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, there\u2019s no more kind of flying under the radar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox\u2019s victory at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, was the first major win of his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of commitments and stuff, there\u2019s been, even for these two weeks, a lot more than I\u2019ve probably ever had,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s, obviously, all good stuff to have, but it\u2019s just time management is going to be \u200ca little more \u200cimportant going forward. It\u2019s just going to be something that I\u2019m going to have to get used to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Those adjustments began \u200bon the flight home from England, when he struggled to find overhead space on the plane for the Claret Jug.<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting on the plane I felt bad, like, I never like holding people up when you get on a plane,\u201d Fox said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone just wants to get to their seat \u2014 and I\u2019m trying to figure out how to fit these two boxes in the overhead and take up all the space.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fox followed that experience with a tied 58th-finish in last \u2060week\u2019s PGA Tour playoff opener at the FedEx St. Jude Championship, salvaging his \u200cbumpy effort in \u200bMemphis with a closing 67 on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Fox heads into Thursday\u2019s opening round at No.25 in the FedEx Cup standings, with the \u200btop \u200b30 advancing to next week\u2019s Tour Championship at East \u200bLake Golf Club in Atlanta.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously that\u2019s a big goal at the start \u200cof the year to get to East Lake,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still in a good place and I think the goal this week is going to be to go out and try to get myself in contention on Sunday and if I can do that, that takes care of \u200bnext week pretty comfortably.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I worry about the positions and what I need to do, what position I technically need to finish in this \u200bweek, I think that will probably \u2060dim my head in a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At his press conference ahead of the BMW Championship, Ryan Fox recited the ways his life has changed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":834971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,405163,42357,85,3586],"class_list":["post-860006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-overseas-sport","tag-ryan-fox","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860006","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=860006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}