Walker Cup: Ewen Ferguson called up to GB&I squad
With Sam Horsfield’s withdrawal from the Walker Cup squad this week, first reserve Ewen Ferguson has been called up to the squad.
Here’s what we know about the young Scot.
Ewen Ferguson
Age: 19
Club: Bearsden, Dumbartonshire
World Amateur Golf Ranking: 40
Became the first Scot to win The Boys Amateur Championship in almost a decade Did you know?
Won five Hurricane Junior Golf Tour titles in America in 2012
Became the first Scot to win The Boys Amateur Championship in almost a decade in August 2013, joining previous winners Jose Maria Olazabal and Sergio Garcia.
During 2013 he claimed the Scottish Hydro Boys Order of Merit with second place in the Stephen Gallacher Foundation Scottish Boys Stroke Play and reached the quarter-finals of the Fairstone Scottish Amateur.
2014 was even better for Ferguson, who won the Scottish Boys and Scottish Boys Stroke Play titles, becoming the first player to hold both trophies and the Boys Amateur at the same time.
Bradley Moore,17, from Kedleston Park in England, becomes the first reserve.
The 45th Walker Cup match will be played at Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club on Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 September. For more information visit www.walkercup.org.
