2026 Open Championship stock report: Who’s up, who’s down from Birkdale

By admin — In News — July 21, 2026

   ​Ryan Fox delivered a shocking win on Sunday at the Open Championship.Getty ImagesSOUTHPORT, England — Ryan Fox will hit many ten-footers in his life. He’ll never hit another one like that one.As it turns out, this is the beauty of Sunday at a major championship. The work of many, many years — a lifetime, even — comes to fruition in an instant. A life changes forever. All that was before is removed by all that now is. And Ryan Fox now is a major champion.The 39-year-old Kiwi is the only reasonable place to start this week’s post-major championship stock report, and he enters the proceedings with his holdings trading at an all-time high.Post-major championship season stock reportRyan Fox — Stock PeakingLet me tell you about a little New Zealand company that just had its ship come in. Yep, its name is Ryan Fox, Inc., and after a pro career that featured just three wins and little to speak of by way of memorable victories, it’s on the way TO THE MOON.OK — maybe I spent a little bit too much time on r/WallStreetBets before writing this story, but truth be told, Foxy’s performance at Royal Birkdale remains one of the most pleasant surprises I’ve witnessed in six years on the golf beat. Fox is not just an all-time good hang, he’s not just a player who upholds all of tournament golf’s most aspirational qualities (dignity, an even-keel, plays in a hurry), but he’s also the exact kind of personality you’d hope to win a major championship. It’s fascinating to think about the doors that will open for him for the rest of his competitive life as a result of Sunday’s victory, including a first-career start at the Presidents Cup this fall at Medinah (how in the name of all that is the post-LIV international team has Fox never made a start in the event?). If it never gets better than tucking the Claret Jug into the overhead compartment on a Boeing 737 this morning, I think Fox will be alright with that.Scottie Scheffler — Stock RisingThis is a bit of a speculative play, particularly after the World No. 1’s comparatively “disappointing” major season (three top-10s including a runner-up finish at the Masters), but I want to tell you about something I witnessed at Royal Birkdale that influenced my decision.It was late on Saturday night, as the leaders were coming off the golf course, when Scheffler arrived on a quiet corner of the practice range. He’d just played what looked like a maddening round of golf — brilliant iron play, a bunch of missed shorties — and you could just tell he was stewing about it. He walked onto the practice green with his putting coach, Phil Kenyon, and wordlessly got to work on the exact type of putt it seemed like he’d missed 20 of on Saturday: A 10-footer with maybe five inches of subtle break. Over the next three minutes, I watched as Scheffler poured in six straight 10-footers from all angles surrounding the cup. With a Tour make-rate of roughly 40 percent from that distance, the odds of t  

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