Open champion Ryan Fox reveals biggest pet peeve on PGA Tour: "Annoys the hell out of me"

Newly-crowned Open champion Ryan Fox has revealed the one thing that annoys him more than slow play.

The 39-year-old claimed his maiden major title with a stunning victory at Royal Birkdale on Sunday, finishing on 10-under for a one-shot win over American Cameron Young.

Fox sealed the triumph in dramatic fashion, draining a 12-foot putt on the final hole to break Young's heart.

The New Zealander has long been regarded as one of the quickest players on the PGA Tour, and his decisive moment was no different.

Just 22 seconds after playing partner Sam Burns holed out, Fox stepped up and rolled in the winning putt.

In his winner's news conference, Fox revealed that he just "sees the game fast" and believes that players should be able to, at the very least, play the game a bit quicker. 

But Fox revealed on the latest edition of golf's Fore Play that slow play is not his biggest pet peeve on the PGA Tour. 

"I'm not going to pick on anyone for slow play, but my personality's fast," Fox told the pod. 

"If I did something slow, it would be against my personality. Some guys are just that slow, loping, everything just happens slowly. And I'm good with that.

"My biggest pet peeve, and I think a lot of guys on tour would say the same thing, especially the guys who are fast, is just not being ready. There's too much of that on tour, and that annoys the hell out of me.

"It's someone’s turn to go, and they haven't even talked to their caddie about what they're going to do. 

"Or they haven't had a look at the putt when they had a chance to, and then they go and do their whole routine and it takes two minutes to do the whole thing. You're like, 'you can get around that'.

"There's times where you've got no choice and you're in someone’s way and you've just got to let them go, then you've got to do your own thing. 

"For the most part, you can do your work when someone else is doing something and just be ready when it's your turn. 

"If you take 40 seconds over the ball to hit a shot, I'm cool with that. That's your routine.

"But if you take a minute to get ready when it's your turn and then take 40 seconds over the ball, that's annoying."

The PGA Tour has intensified its battle against slow play over the last two years but many believe only stroking competitors will make a difference.

Two-time major champion Jon Rahm spoke again about pace of play issues after The Open. 

Rahm, who was given a code of conduct warning over his outburst of anger at Royal Birkdale following a loose shot, offered his solution to reporters. 

"I can give you an idea," Rahm said. "If you get a warning for code of conduct on Thursday, that warning stays for the whole week and it doesn't reset. You can be slow on Thursday; your group gets warned; you have time to catch up. 

"Then you get put on the clock, and once you're on the clock you get one more warning before you get penalised. 

"So you get three possible bad times amongst many others, and then when you tee off on Friday, you start from zero again. That doesn't seem very fair to me."

Rahm argued the governing bodies should loosen the rules on code of conduct or change the pace of play rules to make warnings last for an entire tournament instead of a single round. 

"How come one which is a present issue in the game that can cause slow play and affect other people, you get so many breaks, and it's completely looked over, and then in code of conduct, you don't know where the line is," Rahm added.

"You have no definition of what you can or cannot do, even though we understand where the limit may be, and that warning stays with you for the whole week.

"I know the different things and why they're doing it, but either make one of them a lot more stricter or the other one a lot looser. Whatever you choose. But it would be nice to see them on the same line. Don't care."