The off-Broadway PGA Tour event on Sunday came down to a United Nations playoff of sorts, featuring an American folk-hero in the making, a Canadian already with a trophy, and a 38-year-old New Zealander intent on conquering the new world.
The latter, Ryan Fox, won the ONEflight Myrtle Beach Classic played opposite the more prestigious Truist Championship, by holing a birdie chip from the fringe on the back of the green on the first playoff hole at Dunes Golf and Beach Club in Myrtle Beach, S.C. It gave him the last exemption into the PGA Championship three hours up the road at Quail Hollow.
Fox, who has won four times on the DP World Tour, beat Texan Harry Higgs, a big man with a big personality in search of a bigger stage, and Canadian Mackenzie Hughes, a two-time PGA Tour winner…