{"id":294524,"date":"2026-02-21T03:51:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294524\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T03:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T03:51:19","slug":"ryan-fox-in-early-contention-at-genesis-invitational-with-opening-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/294524\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Fox in early contention at Genesis Invitational with opening 67"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>20 Feb, 2026 02:50 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\">Ryan Fox of New Zealand sits fourth at the Genesis Invitational. Photo \/ AFP<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<a class=\"ad__link\" data-test-ui=\"ad__link\" href=\"https:\/\/nzme.co.nz\/advertise\/\" data-ad-env=\"both\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Advertise with NZME.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ryan Fox has made a strong start to the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles sitting in the top five before poor light stopped play on the opening day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         In the second signature event of the PGA season at the iconic Riviera Country Club, featuring a $33.5m prize purse, Fox started<br \/>\n         with a birdie at the opening hole before heavy rain postponed the round.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">After weather cleared, Fox birdied the second hole with another putt from outside 15 feet (4.5m) before a bogey at the par three fourth halted his hot start. But Fox bounced back with a third birdie at the seventh hole to go out in a two-under 33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">The world No 49 again started strong going birdie-birdie to start the back nine and move within a shot of early leaders Rory McIlroy and Jacob Bridgeman. The birdie at the 11th for Fox coming from a chip-in off the green at the par five after he was forced to hit his second sideways onto the fairway because of finding the trees with his drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfOBuVOCysHhj\" style=\"display:none\">A second bogey at the 15th was quickly wiped out by a birdie at the next hole before Fox finished with a 67, leaving him in fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 20 Feb, 2026 02:50 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78013,46794,1975,9218,103528,5972,2245,1342,4131,33439,78,139153,6804,1362,111,139,69,10521,10538,29848,5128,37451,213,4497,14649,18835,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-294524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-78013","9":"tag-angeles","10":"tag-at","11":"tag-before","12":"tag-contention","13":"tag-day","14":"tag-early","15":"tag-five","16":"tag-fox","17":"tag-genesis","18":"tag-in","19":"tag-invitational","20":"tag-light","21":"tag-made","22":"tag-new-zealand","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-opening","26":"tag-play","27":"tag-poor","28":"tag-ryan","29":"tag-sitting","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-start","32":"tag-stopped","33":"tag-strong","34":"tag-with"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294524","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=294524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}