Fox Reveals Welcomed Home To New Zealand By Four Meat Pies & A ‘Big Smoked Fish Pie’.

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Kiwi Ryan Fox is no different to any New Zealander or Aussie for that matter – he just loves enjoying a meat pie.

However it came as a quite a suprise that no sooner had he and his young family arrived back to his beloved Auckland home and a neigbhour greets him at the door with not one but four meat pies and a ‘ big smoke fish pie’.

It was July 23rd when the 2026 Open Champion arrived home carrying also not one but two Claret Jug’s following his stunning play-off success in capturing the 154th Open Championship at Royal Birkdake.

Fox became the third New Zealand-born male golfer to earn a major championship following Bob Charles 1963 Open Championship triumph at Royal Lytham and St. Anne’s while Michael Campbell ensured the entire New Zealand nation was late for work (New Zealand time Monday) in winning the 2005 US Open at Pinehurst.

So, how did Fox end up with a bag full of meat pies?

Fox revealed all earlier today in a formal press conference ahead of this week’s BMW Championship at the Bellerive Country Club course in suburban Louisville, Missouri.

“Yeah, look, we’ve got a house, New Zealand even though we’re in Florida far more now, I still term NewZealand as home,” said Fox.

“We’ve got a house there and, yeah, we turned up at home at like, I don’t know, 9 o’clock on a Friday morning after we landed.

“Like, I would say half an hour after we landed I got a knock on the door and a woman from a local catering company who is one of our neighbors, lives just down the street. She had heard I had conducted a little interview when we landed at the airport and I asked what I wanted and I said a pie, a meat pie, which is not something you guys have over here.

“So, I’m back home and she literally comes to the door and knocks on the door and gives us a couple of bags and it was like four meat pies and a big pie, big smoked fish pie for dinner that night.

“The company she works always catered one of our kids parties a year or so ago, and she’s Oh, yeah, just wanted to drop these off (smiling)”.

Fox continued the ‘good to be back home’ mood he was in adding:  “There was lots of stuff like that. It was nice to be home. It was definitely busy. We got to catch up with friends and family, obviously, but there was a lot of other commitments around it.

“It’s such a big deal for our country. Like there’s been four major champions in history now, Lydia’s got a couple or three now, I think. Sir Bob Charles in 1963. Michael Campbell in 2005. Like, it doesn’t happen very much to us.

“So, yeah, to go home while it was still fresh with while it was still in everyone’s like front of mind was I think the right thing to do. Yeah, it was a cool experience for me.

“We had a public appearance and the middle of the city there and we had a few thousand people turn up. And
I had the Claret Jug and did a little Q&A and we had aplease conference at home. Which, like all of that stuff was a little bit foreign. Like, I didn’t necessarily think that I — well, I don’t know if I thought I had to do it, but it seemed like more than what I expected it was going to be.

“Yes,  the reception was amazing. I’m glad we did it. Yeah, we certainly also celebrated pretty well. We had a couple of, we had one really good party and got to celebrate, got to have some drinks with some family as well out of it as well.

“So that was, it was good to go home (smiling).”

And while it has been previously reported that there was the emotional scenes when Fox arrived at the Royal Auckland Golf Club with the famed Claret Jug, he spoke also today of the reaction the members of the club seeing golf’s newest major champion leaving the famed trophy with the pro shop for all to see, as he took to the course with three close friends.

“I played once with my mates. Then my coach is based in New Zealand still, so we, I saw him I think four times when I was at home. Then played with my mates,” Fox revealed.

“I took the Claret Jug out to our golf course and said to the guys in the pro shop, I was like, Do you guys mind if I just leave it here? And like a bunch of the members came out and took photos with it and stuff like that.

“It was great to be able to do that. Definitely be able to do it again when I go home at the end of the year. But the buzz around the golf course was pretty incredible as well with it”.

Well done Foxy and the golf world so proud of you …..



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