BEARSDEN COMPETITOR COMPLETES NATIONAL TITLE DOUBLE

                  Ewen Ferguson with the championship trophy at Cruden Bay.
                                Picture by courtesy of Kenny Smith

EWEN FERGUSON SHOOTS A 64 TO WIN

 SCOTTISH BOYS' STROKE BY THREE

By COLIN FARQUHARSON
Colin@scottishgolfview.com
Ewen Ferguson, already holder of the British and Scottish boys' match-play golf titles, added another Under-18s' "major" to his collection at Cruden Bay today (Wed) after a brilliant round of six-under-;par 64 won him the fog-abbreviated Scottish boys' open amateur stroke-play championship.

Early morning fog forced the SGU organisers, who had already "lost" a round on Wednesday, to re-think their plans for the 51 qualifiers to play two rounds on the final day.

Play was not possible until 11.30am and that left time, even with a two-tee start, for only one round to complete the tournament.

Bearsden member Ferguson, trailing leader Duncan McNeill's 65 by five shots, produced his very best form when he needed it most. He reduced the first nine holes to only 31 shots - five under par - with the help of TWO eagle 2s, at the second and the eighth.

Ewen, who had a bogey at the second, had birdies at the short fourth, long sixth and seventh.

He had two more birdies on the inward half, at the 14th and short 15th. By that time the in-form Ferguson was about beginning to lap the field.
Ewen could afford the luxury of a bogey at the short 16th and still win the title very comfortably - even over only 36 holes - by three shots with a six-under-par total of 134.

Joint runners-up on 137 were Ben Kinsley (St Andrews), who came home in 31 for a second-round 70 and the player Ferguson beat in the Scottish boys' match-play final in April, and English challenger, Ryan Lumsden (Royal Wimbledon).

McNeill, who bogeyed the first, second and fifth and then, after a solitary birdie at the eighth, had a double bogey 7 at the long 13th before further bogeys at the 16th and 17th, subsided to a share of eighth place on 141 alongside defending champion Robert MacIntyre (Glencruiten). The Powfoot player slumped from 65 to 76.

Ferguson is the first player since Scott Henry to win the Scottish Under-18 boys' match-play and stroke-play titles in the same year.

No other Scot has held them both AND the British boys' title at the same time.

Ewen is something special.  A Scottish Rory McIlroy in the making?

Fingers crossed.

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