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New Zealand's Ryan Fox is the caller RBC Canadian Open champion. He bushed American Sam Burns successful a four-hole playoff connected Sunday astatine TPC Toronto astatine Osprey Valley.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., was the debased Canadian, tying for 13th astatine 13 under
John Chidley-Hill · The Canadian Press
· Posted: Jun 08, 2025 7:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
Despite caller grounds to the contrary, Ryan Fox doesn't see himself a playoff specialist.
The New Zealander bushed American Sam Burns successful a four-hole playoff to triumph the RBC Canadian Open connected Sunday, the 2nd triumph of his PGA Tour career. The archetypal besides came successful a playoff connected May 11 erstwhile helium birdied the archetypal other spread to bushed Harry Higgs of the United States and Mackenzie Hughes of Dundas, Ont., to triumph the Oneflight Myrtle Beach Classic.
"If you'd person seen immoderate of the ones I had successful Europe, you wouldn't accidental that," said Fox, sitting beside the Canadian Open trophy astatine a quality conference. "I didn't person a large grounds successful Europe successful playoffs.
"I consciousness similar you've got to instrumentality it connected a small bit. It becomes lucifer play. You benignant of privation to enactment the unit connected your hostile a small bit."
Fox had an 0-2 playoff grounds connected the European Tour, losing to Scotland's Russell Knox astatine the 2018 Irish Open and to France's Victor Perez astatine the 2022 Dutch Open.
He had to enactment to unit the other holes connected Sunday.
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New Zealand's Ryan Fox beats American Sam Burns successful 4-hole playoff to triumph Canadian Open
Burns fired an 8-under 62 round, the champion of the day, to laic assertion to the apical of the leaderboard. However, helium had teed disconnected an hr 45 minutes earlier than Fox and Italy's Matteo Manaserro, the 3rd circular co-leaders.
As a result, Fox inactive had astir of the people to play arsenic Burns was signing his scorecard. Fox birdied Nos. 14 and 15 to get to wrong a changeable of Burns and past sank a clutch birdie putt connected No. 18 for a 4-under 66 time that forced the playoff.
No. 18 astatine TPC Toronto astatine Osprey Valley is simply a 576-yard, par-5 spread with the sloping greenish tucked down a tiny pond with bunkers connected the acold side.
"I deliberation 18's a antithetic spread compared to what it has been each week, not being capable to get determination successful two," said Burns connected the anticipation of a playoff and however helium would hole for it. "So I'll astir apt [be astatine the range] trying to fig retired what region we privation to person successful for our 3rd changeable and possibly deed that changeable a fewer times."
After Fox and Burns made par connected their archetypal 2 playoff holes. The grounds unit really chopped a caller spread person to the tee — and the h2o — for the 3rd and 4th runs down the hole.
Fox's bolder attack connected the 2nd and 4th playoff rounds, designed to enactment unit connected Burns, yet paid disconnected erstwhile helium attacked the caller pin.
"I had the nonstop changeable I wanted to hit," said Fox, who qualified for adjacent week's U.S. Open with the victory. "I wasn't definite successful the aerial if it was going to beryllium a small abbreviated oregon perfect. I didn't really spot it land. It was getting a spot hazy retired there. Obviously by the assemblage absorption I knew it was beauteous good.
"Probably the champion changeable I ever deed successful my beingness fixed the circumstances."
Members of the All Whites, New Zealand's nationalist men's shot team, drove up to TPC Toronto connected Sunday to cheer connected Fox. They bushed Ivory Coast 1-0 the nighttime earlier astatine BMO Field successful the Canadian Shield tourney and volition look Ukraine connected Tuesday.
"That was truly cool, to person the Kiwi enactment retired there, it was great," said Fox. "They were determination each day. We look to person a batch of weeks wherever random Kiwis popular up, and to person the All Whites say, 'hey, is determination immoderate accidental we tin travel retired and ticker connected Sunday?' was truly cool.
Grant Fox, Ryan's father, was a alert fractional with the All Blacks, New Zealand's men's rugby team, appearing successful 46 matches and scoring 645 points successful his career. The elder Fox won the Rugby World Cup successful 1987 and is inactive considered 1 of the finest goal-kickers of each time, getting inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame successful 2014.
Nick Taylor of Abbotsford, B.C., was the debased Canadian, tying for 13th astatine 13 under. Taylor won the Canadian Open 2 years agone astatine Oakdale Golf and Country Club.
"The vigor was phenomenal the archetypal mates days and being adjacent the pb the past 2 days," said Taylor, who volition play successful the U.S. Open adjacent week astatine Oakmont Country Club extracurricular Pittsburgh. "I'm bushed from it arsenic good due to the fact that it's amusive being up adjacent to the pb and trying to get it done.
"I'll get immoderate remainder the adjacent mates days and beryllium prepared."
TPC Toronto volition big the Canadian Open again adjacent year.
It was a choky leaderboard passim the round, with 8 players tied for archetypal earlier Fox and Manaserro adjacent teed off.
Ireland's Shane Lowry, for example, began his time with an eagle and followed it up with 3 consecutive birdies to commencement his time 5 nether done conscionable 4 holes to instrumentality sole possession of the lead. He bogeyed Nos. 17 and 18 to autumn backmost into a necktie for 13th.
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