New Zealander Ryan Fox clinched a spot at this week’s US PGA Championship in dramatic type with a 50-foot chip-in from the perimeter of the inexperienced to win the Myrtle Seashore Traditional in a three-way play-off.

It was a primary US PGA Tour title in 68 begins for the 38-year-old after he completed on 15 underneath alongside Canada’s Mackenzie Hughes and American Harry Higgs.

Fox earned his spot within the play-off when Hughes let a one-stroke lead slip with a bogey on the 18th and Higgs was solely capable of par the final on the event, which was performed concurrently the Truist Championship in Philadelphia, received by Austrian Sepp Straka.

He’ll now line up within the second main of the yr which begins at Quail Hole, North Carolina on Thursday.

Fox, whose father Grant performed 46 occasions for the All Blacks and received the inaugural World Cup in 1987, beforehand performed on the DP World Tour, profitable 3 times together with on the BMW PGA Championship in 2023 earlier than attempting his luck in the US.

On the day when Mom’s Day was celebrated in America, he celebrated his win in South Carolina together with his spouse Anneke Ryff and two younger daughters.

“So my spouse kind of joked on Friday once I mentioned, ‘What can I get you for Mom’s Day?’ And she or he goes, ‘Properly, a trophy can be good’. So I suppose I lived as much as my finish of the discount there,” mentioned Fox, who additionally earns a two-year PGA Tour exemption.

“To have the spouse and children right here is wonderful.

“I have never transitioned most likely in addition to I might have favored over the PGA Tour. It was powerful final yr, I managed to simply preserve my card, and it has been a scratchy begin this yr as nicely.

“On this recreation, you aren’t getting to win fairly often. You do not get job safety fairly often both.

“So it is actually good to have that. And behind my thoughts, can really feel like for the remainder of the yr, I can freewheel it a bit bit. Hopefully that takes some strain off.

“We’ll see the way it goes within the subsequent few weeks. However yeah, it is looks like a monkey off my again, that is for certain.”