New Zealander Ryan Fox has been named Golfer of the Month for February presented by DP World after 51.6% of fans voted for the Kiwi on Twitter.
Ryan Fox, Golfer of the Month
The 35-year-old won his second DP World Tour title at the Ras al Khaimah Classic, with rounds of 69-65-69 and five strokes clear of England’s Ross Fisher.
Fox’s victory propelled him into the top 10 of the DP World Tour rankings and ended a nearly three-year winless streak. In a tight ballot, Fox narrowly edged Denmark’s Nicolai Højgaard, who received 48.4% of the public vote.
Højgaard won the Ras al Khaimah Championship presented by Phoenix Capital, the first of a two-week stint in the Emirates. The young Dane gave it his all, shooting rounds of 67-65-64-68 to win comfortably by four shots. This is his second DP World Tour title, coming on top of the Italian Open he won last September.
He is one of the most successful sportsmen of all time, as well as the richest in the world. When it comes to firsts, Tiger Woods is always there: 15 majors, 110 professional tournaments, the most successful golfer in the history of the sport.
Statistics that explain why he managed to stay at the top of the world rankings for 683 weeks (including 281 consecutive) and especially because in 2014 he became the first athlete in the world to have crossed the billion dollar mark.
Astronomical figure which also justifies the fact that Tiger Woods can afford a yacht like the Privacy, a real fairy tale boat. And obviously, we’re talking about something that was very expensive. If you imagine a luxury yacht and a certain comfort on board, then the Privacy has it.
48 meters long, with a total area of 600 square meters, this yacht was purchased by the golfer in 2004. Equipped with five cabins that can accommodate a total of ten people, it also has four quarters for nine crew members.
Tiger Woods is used to calling it “my dinghy”, even though everything looks like a dinghy: with a cruising speed of 18 knots, it also has a gym on board where the golfer continues to train . Woods also prefers to stay on this yacht during tournaments organized in New York.
With its cherry wood interiors, Privacy also boasts a three-person elevator, an enormous Jacuzzi, large enough to accommodate eight people, and the inevitable cinema room and bar area. The little extra of this mega yacht is provided by the space that Tiger Woods wanted to dedicate to scuba diving: this also explains the presence of a decompression chamber (inflatable) and an area dedicated to filling bottles of oxygen.
The luxury is also complemented by three jet skis and two scooters for short shore excursions. Obviously, all this has a price: The Privacy cost 17 million euros and its annual maintenance amounts to 1.7 million euros.
