Ensuring his spot at this month’s Open Championship at Royal Troon, Ewen Ferguson won the BMW International Open in Munich, Germany by a total of two strokes.
After finishing the final round at four under par (68), the 28-year-old athlete secured his third DP World Tour victory and his first since 2022. This put him at 18 under overall. Moreover, Ferguson’s countryman Connor Syme shared fourth place on 14 under with England’s Matthew Southgate, rounding out the top five.
Ferguson is the first Scottish golfer to win a DP World Tour event since Robert MacIntyre’s triumph at the Italian Open in 2022. Only two Scots, Sandy Lyle and Colin Montgomerie, have won the Munich event in the past.
On qualifying at the Open Championship
Ferguson played in the Hoylake Open Championship the previous year and qualified for the Race to Dubai this year as one of the top five players who is not otherwise exempt. The Open this year is held on the shore of Ayrshire from July 18–21.
With this success, the athlete declared: “I honestly can’t believe it… The last four holes I felt like I was in a dream, I just didn’t think this was actually happening. It was crazy.”
“The exemption with this is so much weight off my shoulders. I’m so happy. Teeing it up in Troon, the Open Championship is a tournament that everyone wants to play in and I feel like I could do well there and the Scottish Open next week too… It’s such exciting times for me.” he added.
Source: BBC