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Ryan Fox has experienced some difficult times in his life lately. A lot has happened in the life of this golfer, but nothing has prevented him from returning to golf and showing that it is what he loves most. His great start at the PGA Championship drew a lot of attention.
Although he had pneumonia a few months ago and had to rest, his qualities still surfaced at this major. “It’s been an interesting, probably last month,” Fox said, as quoted by golfmonthly.com “At the Masters, I was pretty sick on the weekend.
Tried to play Hilton Head, withdrew from there after nine holes, just feeling awful. Got home and got told I caught pneumonia, which pretty much explained why I felt so bad. I had a couple of weeks off just being Dad and trying to recover from that.
That took a fair while on antibiotics to get over that. Basically as soon as I got over that, our daughter was born, which was just over two weeks ago now. Our second daughter was born, Margot. So I had a few sleepless nights and not a lot of practice.
One of the days I was supposed to go to practice, Auckland flooded for the third time this year. So I think I drove around Auckland, 27 kilometres in four hours in chaos.” His preparations were far from what he expected. “It wasn’t quite the ideal preparation for a major, but I was kind of hoping the fact I needed a break after a busy start to the year and being mentally fresh would have been important this week.”
Ryan Fox: I needed a break
As we said before, Fox started his adventure at the PGA Championship in a great way.
However, he emphasized that he is still not at the level he can be. Fox will need some time to regain his form. In the end, he confirmed that the rest was necessary for him. “To be honest I still don’t feel like I’ve got it back completely,” Fox added.
“My speed is down a little bit on what it normally is. Probably took two weeks at home just to get any energy back. I would go and do something with my daughter and then feel like I could sit on the couch all afternoon, which I guess is not a bad thing anyway.
Obviously, I was going to travel to a Major. If there had been another event, I might have spent another week at home with the family. But it was just coming and going. The golf game was pretty good a month ago, so it can’t have disappeared that far, and as I said, I needed a break.
I think I had been away for 11 of 13 weeks at the start of the year. Yeah, almost pneumonia was a benefit in a way that I just got home and knew I could do nothing and just relax. Yeah, coming in this week fresh has been pretty good so far.”
