Episode #108 Foxy's Long Way Round — Jay Carter on Ryan Fox, Late Specialisation, and the Open

This month's guest podcast: Ian Renshaw is joined by Jay Carter, Golf New Zealand's National Team Coach and host of the *Talking Performance* podcast (197 episodes and counting), for a conversation built around a clip Jay sent after listening to TCC's Güllich episode. Jay's own 2024 interview with Ryan Fox — republished this August after Fox won The Open Championship at Royal Birkdale — became the case study: a New Zealand sporting-royalty kid (father Grant Fox, All Black goal-kicker; grandfather Merv Wallace, Black Cap) who made First XI cricket and First XV rugby at King's College alongside Tim Southee, and didn't get serious about golf until university.

The conversation moves through why "smash it" beat "be accurate" in Fox's early sporting intentions, the golf course used as an after-school playground before the game's popularity boom priced that out, why practicing to "feel better" isn't the same as practicing to get better, the transactional trap in paid coaching (and what it would take to actually get fired for being honest), boredom as a genuinely useful training constraint, and a caddying story from the Kazuma Kobori bunker at Royal Queensland that turns into a case study in broadening a player's affordances rather than narrowing them to "the right shot."

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