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Live: US Open - final round

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock

Morning all and welcome to our live updates of the final round of the US Open.
The Waikato Times

2 weeks ago | waikatotimes.co.nz | Fred Woodcock
The Post

2 weeks ago | thepost.co.nz | Fred Woodcock
Ryan Fox makes great start at US Open

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock

Ryan Fox has two birdies and a bogey on his front nine in the first round of the US Open and is inside the top-10. Fox was one-under through seven holes to sit in a tie for seventh on the first day at the brutal Oakmont Country Club north-east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Fox teed off at 4.41am (NZT), alongside South Korea’s Byeong Hun An and American Joe Highsmith, in his seventh US Open. He did so as a newly minted two-time PGA Tour champion, after winning the Canadian Open on Monday.
What Ryan Fox’s Canadian Open triumph on the PGA Tour means for him

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock

Ryan Fox wins Canadian Open in dramatic playoffANALYSIS: Kiwi Ryan Fox enjoyed a stunning PGA Tour playoff victory for the second time in a month after prevailing at the Canadian Open near Toronto on Monday. With members of the All Whites among the Kiwis cheering him on, Fox produced a clutch 3-wood on the fourth playoff hole to sink American Sam Burns and become just the second Kiwi after Sir Bob Charles in 1968 to win Canada’s national open.
Musk and Trump are over. Silicon Valley is just getting started

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Gill South |Barbara Ortutay |Shilpy Arora Gaikwad |Fred Woodcock

It would have been another banner day for Silicon Valley’s blossoming alliance with Washington - if only US president Donald Trump and Elon Musk hadn’t been attacking each other online. While the two men traded barbs on their respective social networks, a cryptocurrency company whose business had been hamstrung by the Biden administration went public on the New York Stock Exchange, its share price popping 200%.
Investigation ongoing into cause of fatal fire

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock |Paul Cully |Nadine Porter

Police are still investigating the cause of a Waitara house fire which claimed a person’s life on Friday. Emergency services responded to the fire at the Browne St flat about 7.30am. Part of the property was fully ablaze at that stage, with plumes of dark, grey smoke visible. By 8am, the fire was out. The person who died was the only occupant in the unit at the time of the fire.
'Nothing short of disastrous': Seabed mining project another 'muru raupatu' for Taranaki

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Bridie Witton |Glenn McConnell |Jonathan Leask |Fred Woodcock

About 300 people braved icy waters off the New Plymouth coast on Sunday to protest against the Pātea seabed mining project in South Taranaki. It was a part of a nationwide stand on World Oceans Day opposing fast-tracked seabed mining applications around the country. Australian company Trans-Tasman Resources (TTR) plans to mine 50 million tonnes of South Taranaki seabed every year.
Live: New Zealand golfer Ryan Fox chases PGA Tour win at the Canadian Open

2 weeks ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock

Welcome to Stuff's live coverage of the final round of the Canadian Open on the PGA Tour.We're live this morning because, of course, Kiwi Ryan Fox has a big chance to score his second career PGA Tour victory, which would also be his second in a month after breaking through at the Myrtle Beach Classic in May.Fox headed into the final round tied at the top with Italian Matteo Manassero at -14 following rounds of 66, 66 and an excellent six-under 64 in yesterday's third round.The Kiwi has just...
Stuff

1 month ago | stuff.co.nz | Fred Woodcock