{"id":779426,"date":"2026-09-23T00:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T00:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T00:29:13","slug":"ryan-fox-says-all-blacks-didnt-know-he-would-bear-flag-in-baltimore-returns-alongside-rory-mcilroy-for-bmw-pga-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/779426\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Fox says All Blacks didn\u2019t know he would bear flag in Baltimore; returns alongside Rory McIlroy for BMW PGA Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cObviously the result was not something that I think we wanted, but just to, and it certainly was a tough watch there at the back end of the second half, but I think the boys did us incredibly proud over the whole tour and I think we\u2019re in a pretty good place. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a tough team to beat, the South Africans, but I feel like we\u2019re in a good place for the World Cup next year. And yeah, just that\u2019s an experience I wouldn\u2019t have had otherwise. <\/p>\n

\u201cI ended up staying in the same hotel as them and all the boys turned up to a Six60 concert, which was pretty amazing. I had a chat to a few of them and Codie said to me, \u2018we didn\u2019t actually know who was going to be flagbearer and we were all pretty excited when we ran out and saw it was you\u2019, so to hear that from them was pretty amazing.\u201d <\/p>\n

After finishing his PGA Tour season<\/a> at the end of last month 26th in the FedEx Cup standings, Fox will return to action at the BMW PGA Championship at the Wentworth Club in Surrey, England \u2013 one of the pinnacle events of the DP World Tour season. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s an event Fox has had previous success in, including winning the tournament in 2023, and one that he hopes will bring a return to form after some patchy performances over the PGA Tour playoffs. <\/p>\n

The 39-year-old will start his tournament this evening in one of the feature groups, alongside Northern Irishman Rory McIlroy, a back-to-back Masters champion, and Englishman Aaron Rai, who won the PGA Championship this year. <\/p>\n

With three of the year\u2019s four major winners teeing off together, Fox said he hoped he would respond to the pressure of playing in the group. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always a little bit nerve-wracking when you\u2019re in one of those big groups, but it\u2019s something I\u2019m going to have to get used to more and more often now,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very cool for the DP World Tour to have three major winners be members and be able to put them all in the same group at their flagship event. So yeah, I\u2019m excited to be a part of it. <\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve kind of struggled a little bit to find some intensity after the Open, trying to find those same feelings and it\u2019s not quite there, even though we\u2019ve had some big events in the States. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut I guess playing with Rory in front of what I imagine is going to be a pretty big crowd over the next couple of days, I think that\u2019ll certainly help the intensity and hopefully spark a little something in the golf game too.\u201d <\/p>\n

Christopher Reive<\/a> joined the Herald sports team in 2017, bringing the same versatility to his coverage as he does to his sports viewing habits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cObviously the result was not something that I think we wanted, but just to, and it certainly was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[4020,37768,907,159664,13643,62765,131246,55835,10915,256901,60064,165828,436,33120,5904,2705,51342,1776,256902,15872,3676,13401,45138,3675,4283,4848,101,39891,265,56,54,55,177954,11552],"class_list":["post-779426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-against","tag-ahead","tag-all","tag-alongside","tag-baltimore","tag-bear","tag-blacks","tag-bmw","tag-championship","tag-didnt","tag-even","tag-flag","tag-for","tag-fox","tag-golf","tag-he","tag-holding","tag-in","tag-knew","tag-know","tag-mcilroy","tag-pga","tag-returns","tag-rory","tag-ryan","tag-says","tag-sports","tag-springboks","tag-test","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-would","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}