{"id":40026,"date":"2026-07-20T14:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/40026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T14:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T14:56:06","slug":"british-open-2026-this-story-involving-ryan-fox-cameron-young-and-the-claret-jug-on-an-airplane-is-absolutely-bonkers-golf-news-and-tour-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/40026\/","title":{"rendered":"British Open 2026: This story involving Ryan Fox, Cameron Young and the claret jug on an airplane is absolutely bonkers | Golf News and Tour Information"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a wild week at Royal Birkdale, but the craziest story from the 2026 British Open wound up taking place the day after at Manchester Airport.<\/p>\n

In the moments after Ryan Fox’s dramatic win<\/a>, cameras caught him talking on the phone to his family. It was a beautiful scene, but it also showed the 39-year-old being brought back to reality when asked by his wife about when exactly he’d be getting back home.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out he got out on an early flight the following morning. And freelance golf photographer Matt Hahn snapped a few photos of Fox toting around his new prized possession in a case.<\/p>\n

But here’s where the story gets crazy. According to Hahn, those recognizing the 39-year-old New Zealander began talking to him about his clutch finish<\/a>, and the affable Fox was happy to talk about it. All good stuff except for the guy who happened to be sitting in the seat right in front of him.<\/p>\n

That’s right, Cameron Young. The guy whose heart Fox had ripped out hours before. Here’s how Hahn tells it:<\/p>\n

Seriously, what are the chances?! And here’s a zoom in of what Hahn says is Young’s hat right in front of Fox:<\/p>\n

Talk about an all-time bad travel break.<\/p>\n

Anyway, safe travels to both golfers. And to the claret jug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a wild week at Royal Birkdale, but the craziest story from the 2026 British Open wound…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[16123,685,12313,2274,16122,2143,82],"class_list":["post-40026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameron-young","tag-british-open-2026-this-story-involving-ryan-fox-cameron-young-and-the-claret-jug-on-an-airplane-is-absolutely-bonkers","tag-cameron-young","tag-claret-jug","tag-openchampionship2026","tag-random-daggers","tag-ryan-fox","tag-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}