Fox takes net title at pro-member in Florida
- NZ Sports Wire
- Mar 7
- 2 min read
New Zealand golfer Ryan Fox and playing partner Jimmy Dunne III almost completed a clean sweep at the 2025 Seminole Pro-Member.
Fox and Dunne, the Seminole Golf Club president and former PGA Tour board member, lost to Billy Horschel and Bill Davis via a scorecard playoff in the gross competition after both teams carded 64.
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However, Fox and Dunne - who played a key role in the 2023 PGA Tour-PIF merger framework - reigned supreme in the net leaderboard, with their score adjusted to 61, one stroke clear of Corey Conners and Peter Broome.
The exclusive one-day tournament at Juno Beach, Florida, which features 94 pairs of professional golfers and influential members playing a better-ball format, is played every year on a Monday during the PGA Tour's Florida swing.
Elsewhere in the gross section, five teams finished in a tie for third on 66, including 2023 champions Justin Thomas and Mike Walrath, Collin Morikawa and David Novak, Kevin Kisner and Peer Pedersen, Ben An and Bret Baier, plus Conners and Broome.
Rory McIlroy and his father Gerry ended among the group on 68 and tied for 13th, with Ernie Els/Alan Fadel and Keegan Bradley/Shane Battier for company.
Tiger Woods and former PGA of America CEO Seth Waugh did not manage to finish inside the top-39 teams in gross, although the pair were listed among the cluster of duos in a share of 26th in the net results.
Meanwhile, Kazuma Kobori is tied for 73rd at even-par after the opening round of the DP World Tour's Joburg Open.
Kobori produced five birdies, three bogeys and a double-bogey at the Houghton Golf Club in Johannesburg, South Africa on Thursday (Friday NZT) to trail the co-leaders Wenyi Ding and Jordan Smith by seven strokes.
At the Blue Bay LPGA tournament in Hainan, China, Kiwi Fiona Xu was tied for 62nd after the first round on Thursday. Xu managed three birdies, three bogeys and a double-bogey in a two-over 73 to trail by six shots.