{"id":617840,"date":"2026-10-01T22:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617840\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T22:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T22:24:09","slug":"golf-ryan-fox-describes-meeting-donald-trump-at-presidents-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/617840\/","title":{"rendered":"Golf: Ryan Fox describes meeting Donald Trump at Presidents Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cTo hear that from the President of the United States was pretty cool.<\/p>\n

\u201cRegardless of where any of us golfers stand politically, he\u2019s a huge golf fan. There\u2019s a lot of events around the world at his golf courses, and he is mad keen on it. <\/p>\n

\u201cHaving someone in his office be a fan of golf has been good for the game of golf for the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not many Kiwis would have had the chance to be in Trump\u2019s presence, but Fox said it was like something he had never experienced before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s Secret Service everywhere, there\u2019s snipers, there\u2019s Delta Force squads and everything else rolling around,\u201d Fox said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving him there certainly added to the atmosphere. It did make life a little more difficult for us, with all the extra stuff going on, but that\u2019s all part of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been to quite a few golf events over the last couple of years and I think everyone just knows what\u2019s coming when he\u2019s going to turn up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entering the final day with singles matches, Fox\u2019s international team were ahead by three points, but Team USA rallied to win nine of the 12 matches to secure a 17-13 win.<\/p>\n

Fox was solid with his form, winning both of his foursomes (alternate shot) matches, teaming up with Australian Min Woo Lee. His losses came in his one four-ball (best ball) assignment \u2013 with him and Australian Adam Scott beaten 3&2 by Wyndham Clark and Collin Morikawa \u2013 while he fell in his singles match against Xander Schauffele 2&1.<\/p>\n

Despite being on the losing side, Fox said the opportunity to compete in the team event was one he would remember.<\/p>\n

Another surreal experience Fox got to be part of recently was being out on the field with the All Blacks, holding the New Zealand flag as the team sang the national anthem before the fourth test against the Springboks in Baltimore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The honour came as a surprise, with Fox only finding out a few days beforehand that he would be involved.<\/p>\n

\"NewNew Zealand golfer Ryan Fox holds the NZ flag during the national anthem. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n

He told his parents before the event who misunderstood his text, and were shocked to see him on the field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never dreamt that I would do it,\u201d Fox said. \u201cAnd yet, to only find out a few days beforehand and to get that call was pretty special.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI actually told Mum and Dad that I was going to be out there before the game and they misread my text and they absolutely lost their minds when they saw me out there with the flag before the game. <\/p>\n

\u201cTo be out there with the guys, I know the result didn\u2019t go the way we wanted to, but the atmosphere was amazing and to get to feel what they feel week in, week out. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t get much like that in golf. I would say maybe the first tee shot of the Presidents Cup or first tee shot of a major is kind of similar with that kind of atmosphere, but to have 70,000 people screaming in the stands is pretty special and it was great to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ben Francis<\/a> is an Auckland-based reporter for the New Zealand Herald who covers breaking sports news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTo hear that from the President of the United States was pretty cool. \u201cRegardless of where any of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1975,304299,10542,1359,11557,2178,17515,4131,18126,46612,194,2374,23739,111,139,69,28243,2572,29312,5128,213,9939,60839,2179,9938,540],"class_list":["post-617840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-at","tag-compliment","tag-cup","tag-described","tag-describes","tag-donald","tag-experience","tag-fox","tag-golf","tag-golfer","tag-kiwi","tag-meeting","tag-memorable","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offered","tag-president","tag-presidents","tag-ryan","tag-sports","tag-states","tag-surreal","tag-trump","tag-united","tag-where"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617840","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=617840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}