{"id":76287,"date":"2026-07-19T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/my-hands-were-all-over-the-place-for-surreal-open-winning-putt-says-ryan-fox\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T21:55:02","slug":"my-hands-were-all-over-the-place-for-surreal-open-winning-putt-says-ryan-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/my-hands-were-all-over-the-place-for-surreal-open-winning-putt-says-ryan-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"My hands were all over the place for \u2018surreal\u2019 Open-winning putt, says Ryan Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Fox sinks winning putt on 18th for first major title<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s going to be big back home in New Zealand\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ryan Fox has said he had no \u00adsensation in his hands as he hit the winning putt in the 154th Open Cham\u00adpionship. Fox, who claimed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/19\/open-championship-final-round-ryan-fox-tommy-fleetwood-scottie-scheffler-rory-mcilroy-golf\">his first major title<\/a>, became the first New Zealander since Bob Charles in 1963 to win the Open. He did so in dramatic style, with a birdie putt on the final hole sufficient\u00a0for a 68 and 10-under-par total which was enough to beat Cameron Young by one stroke.<\/p>\n<p>Fox was typically brisk in his approach to playing the 18th. Reflecting on the moment of victory, though, he explained the state of his emotions. \u201cYou can\u2019t feel your hands, I know that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/19\/ryan-fox-the-open-championship-2026-golf-new-zealand\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox sinks winning putt on 18th for first major title \u2018It\u2019s going to be big back home in New Zealand\u2019 Ryan Fox has said he had no \u00adsensation in his hands as he hit the winning putt in the 154th Open Cham\u00adpionship. Fox, who claimed his first major title, became the first New Zealander since &#8230; <a title=\"My hands were all over the place for \u2018surreal\u2019 Open-winning putt, says Ryan Fox\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/19\/my-hands-were-all-over-the-place-for-surreal-open-winning-putt-says-ryan-fox\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about My hands were all over the place for \u2018surreal\u2019 Open-winning putt, says Ryan Fox\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}