Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\nRyan Fox recovered from an early hiccup to card an even par round to start the Pebble Beach Pro-Am in California, the first of the $33m signature events of the PGA Tour season.<\/p>\n
\n Fox is paired with world No 2 Rory McIlroy for the opening two rounds, with McIlroy on
\n fire early at five-under through the opening nine, while Fox struggled with an early double bogey.\n <\/p>\n
Playing on the Spyglass Hill Golf Course, the first two rounds alternate with Pebble Beach, and starting on the back nine, Fox parred the opening three holes before a double bogey at the par four 13th. A chip with his third shot failed to land on the green before his next attempt left him a 1.2m putt for bogey. But that missed, to see him walk off with a six.<\/p>\n
He recovered by sinking a 2.1m putt for birdie at the par four 17th to be one-under at the turn. <\/p>\n
A cold putter didn\u2019t see other birdie chances drop, before Fox found the lefthand bunker at the par three fifth and couldn\u2019t sink the near 5m par attempt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 12 Feb, 2026 10:56 PM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[80175,1975,7972,179,10635,2245,2550,157898,8231,3685,1888,4131,71,157899,111,139,69,5493,79670,37867,8694,68925,18833,5128,6926,2543,213,4497,61,208,102],"class_list":["post-282627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-33m","tag-at","tag-beach","tag-california","tag-card","tag-early","tag-even","tag-evenpar","tag-event","tag-events","tag-first","tag-fox","tag-from","tag-hiccup","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-open","tag-pebble","tag-proam","tag-recovered","tag-recovers","tag-round","tag-ryan","tag-season","tag-signature","tag-sports","tag-start","tag-to","tag-tour","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}