Nick Rodger: Timing is everything as Ferguson gears up for golf's big fortnight
It’s not been the greatest of summers, has it? Saying that, when I started composing this Tuesday tour de farce – yes, I meant to write farce there – the sun was actually shining.
As we hurtle towards the peak season, what a timely tonic we got with Ewen Ferguson’s win at the BMW International Open in Munich. Scotland’s fitba players may have flopped like a weary Dick Fosbury on German soil during the Euros but Ferguson showed them how to do it with the dimpled ball. Good things come to those who win. And it was a cracking win of poise and purpose, wasn’t it? Watching the 28-year-old play the 18th hole with a decent cushion, there was a moment that possibly struck a chord with all golfers as he sized up a safe, positional second shot on the par-5.
Ferguson, of course, is made of sterner stuff. Those of us who documented his various accomplishments in the amateur scene a number of years ago always harboured hopes that he could do something as a professional. There was always a smiling, winking soundbite for us lot in the press too."My dad had told them to get their arses down to West Kilbride," he chuckled at the time as he praised the Bearsden membership for turning out for that Scottish Boys’ win in Ayrshire back in 2014.
Tied for 12th last year, Ferguson will be confident of putting in another sprightly shift as he looks to make his mark against some of the game’s biggest names.
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