As chaos unfolded connected Sunday day astatine the 154th Open Championship, Ryan Fox was the antheral who kept chill successful the baking conditions astatine Royal Birkdale.
The 39-year-old New Zealander, who is the lad of All Black fable Grant, changeable a two-under 68 to decorativeness 1 up of American Cameron Young and assistance the Claret Jug.
After a last circular afloat of spills and thrills, Fox knew a birdie connected the 18th would beryllium capable to unafraid his archetypal large title.
Easier said than done. The agelong par-four had yielded lone 4 birdies each day, but the courageous Fox did not instrumentality a measurement backmost arsenic helium chased down long-time clubhouse person Young.
Fox grabbed the operator retired of the container and launched a crackerjack of a 330-yard tee-shot into the mediate of the fairway.
With 175 yards left, helium deed 1 of the attack shots of his vocation into the bosom of the green.
Then helium calmly stepped up and converted the biggest putt of his beingness from 11 feet.
Fox's fantastic decorativeness capped a magnificently choky Open which could person gone successful immoderate absorption connected a chaotic and melodramatic Sunday.
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