Ewen Ferguson Reacts To His Final Winning Round | 2024 BMW International Open

Ewen Ferguson reacts to every shot and emotion he experienced during his third win on Tour at the 2024 BMW International Open in Munich.

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Hi guys, Ian Ferguson here. I’m going to watch back every shot from my final round of the BMW International Open in Munich and um tell you my thoughts and feelings as I’m trying to get my third win on tour. Super cool to to watch back and see kind of like just like how even how like nervous and stuff I look. And I remember that first he shot Stevie standing over it in the pouring rain. And like I know I’m from Scotland, but I usually hate playing in the rain and I usually always hit it so far right in the rain when I’ve kind of my first t-shot where I’ve not kind of got the hang of things yet. So this first t-shot I was so nervous pour in the rain and then sure enough started to go right and like right on that first T- shot so dead. So I was like, “Oh no.” when I seen it going um and obviously it was just like hammering down but when I got up there in the second shot there’s a tiny we gap and I knew that the first three holes were so critical because um they’re probably the hardest three holes in the course and the course kind of opens up after that and gives you some short par fours and par fives to make some birdies and hit that little gap with my second shot all the way up through the trees with a little fade on the green left myself like 40 50 foot up over a tier which was like unbelievable because usually if you get it right, you’re chipping out and it’s, you know, really tough. So, um, pace pot on that first pot on the first screen was great and touch all week was just incredible. Um, it’s amazing how when you’re just feeling it. Some weeks it’s just all there. All the people watching unre such good times. Um, second shot, second hole, first T- shot. Swing looked great. I actually thought that was going to get all the way there and be closer, but because of the rain, it was so heavy. It came was straight down the stick. Ended up coming down like 50 ft short and I was like gutted a little bit. But in the rain, you can’t can’t complain too much. And um another kind of long ner putt with the the first putt, but yeah, it was again good pace and kind of easy kick in for a for a par, which was nice. Um and then the this these we put pups in the rain are always ming just because you’re like wee bit of grass little bit of wet just takes a little push and it’s you know you’re you’re lipping out or whatever. So it’s ones you’ve always got to really focus on but yeah brushed it in nicely there. And then that third T-shot coming up, I just knew like, oh, this hole was going I knew that was like a massive hole. It could make a big difference just cuz it’s probably the toughest one in the course. 500 yard par four like pouring rain. It’s never easy. I actually thought I ripped this as soon as I hit it. I was like, h here we go. Look at that. Like T pickup wasn’t even looking. And um thought it was all good and got down there and it was like horrible in the rough kind of just short of the bunker. So not really what I was after, but yeah, when I was over the second shot, I was want to be more aggressive. My caddy was like just leave it short of the green and it’s an easy chip from there. So I actually played a cracking second shot just short just short the green and left myself with a nice weed chip up the hill. If you tried to be too aggressive and and got it deep, you and didn’t work out right, you’d have a really tough really tough pitch. But yeah, again with the with the rain, he always these delicate shots are always super tough. Couple of nice we practice swings and just my feel and touch that was just so good. It’s such a nice feeling when it’s just on the end of your fingertips. I love a little catch, a little bit of spin. Oh, how’s that? Honestly, robbed. But um yeah, that was that was good. And yeah, a nice little kick in for for par which was nice cuz they again like I was saying to myself before out in the rain like the first three holes has been so key like if I got through them at one over I’d have been quite happy to be honest. So um to get through in level felt like a little bit of a mission done at that point. Never a driver off this team. It was pouring rain. I just thought at least I’m in the club face just squeeze it down there. So horrible little necky one down the right side, but I knew it was fine there. And I knew I could I knew it was all trampled on all the people there all week. So I knew I could just kind of batter back a wedge up the green from there. Um when I got up there, it was actually sitting quite well. So that was nice. Um guy standing a bit close to me there. I didn’t know it was that. um played a lovely little wedge out um and left myself a great chance. Like I said, here you get some shorter par fours and the core starts to open up a little bit. So yeah, missed that. And the fifth hole was was quite a key moment because Smith is just hold a birthday part to like tie the lead on me and then all of a sudden I’ve got, you know, I put a lovely little note dead dead armed wedge in there to take the spin off. That was lovely. And Smithy’s hold that big part to go tie the lead and I’ve got mine to kind of stay one ahead and that little knit and tuck with him. all day was was really good, especially playing against a a player of his his caliber cuz he’s he’s fantastic to to watch. Yeah, that cut amazing. Look at that. Back through. Take that away. Um class. Yeah, first of the day. Well, par five coming up was nice. And it’s just funny watching back because I look so like focused. I knew what was going on. I was right into it. Six hole T- shot ripped it. Swing was looking pure. I was hitting it hard. Not much thought of like left to right misses or anything like that. It was just kind of backing through. No, no real swing thoughts. Missed my second shot right at the green which is absolutely the miss. So it’s all water left and it’s just you’re in the little fairway part there. If you get it in that part and you’ve got kind of simple pitch all the way up the green to any pin location. So at the start of the week I actually said that I was like if I miss in there can chip to all the pins all good. Um, and again this we chip was was a nice little one. It was the although it was quite tough to get the the strike right in the wet. This I liked how I kind of spun it in there. Um, still aggressive and didn’t kind of kind of hang back and miss strike or anything like that. It was something else. So yeah, I mean you make the kind of birdies like so easy like that when you’re winning tournaments. It’s like having a good week. It’s just like feels just like making a birdie just feels like nothing. like I parted par five get on the next you know it’s you don’t think anything of it when in other weeks it feels really tough to do that um on the seventh t cause a sevenwood here and because it was raining I felt like I got right ahead of it to try and get the maximum out of the club and I got so far ahead of it that I leaked it right into the trees and had a the worst possible leave and um I remember just being like raging Stevie and myself saying like why didn’t I just hit threewood to be short of that 300 yard burn because you know it would have took a little bit of pressure off myself. Got up here cuz I should have probably chipped it out but I thought if I just hit a low fade cuz it was a right pin up there and get it kind of left I’ll chip up the green and when it’s wet like that it’s just not happening. I mean what I try to do there. That was just never the play clapping. Looks closer to the body next to it is the hole we’re on. awful shot. Then I didn’t like this third shot at all. Everyone was like, “Oh, it’s a fine lie.” Was it sitting good when I was walking up? Oh, you’re all good. You’re all good. It was that stuff was just like munch was wet underneath and I was standing. It was like soggy. The soil it was like moving. I was thinking, “Oh, just got to feel comfortable with it.” And kind of drove it. Thought got a bit of spin, but it just trickled off the other side. And this is when things start things start really getting getting tense here and feeling feeling real. Yeah, just played up way too much hand speed and really went in to be good. And then look at that tough we shot. That actually looks like the next shot is flat, but I’m chipping over a little tear there. Bogey putt. Yeah, look at the anxiety in my face. And this part was huge because I think a bogey, everyone’s making bogeies um especially on the final day like it’s around the lead because it’s just a lot of pressure on. So a bogey is just not you can live with a bogey but a double bogey just feels so so much bigger and um I think this was so key because it kept me like in a tie for the lead. If I went one back mentally I’d have felt like oh you know I’ve got so much I need to I need to pick up the ground again. I was leading, I’m giving it away, all that stuff. So, yeah, I was so into this T-shot’s class. Um, Smithy pulled it left, pin left, four iron in the rain, and I’ve just hit like an absolute bullet straight on the top to your left. We had a great chance. Um, was brilliant shot. The strike and everything just so good. Yeah, tell I like it. I’m all happy. No morning actually annoying cuz someone’s foaming off just before it hits. So I like backed off. Then when I’m back in the pot putt I felt like I was aiming bad and I was like I can’t back off again. That’s embarrassing. People think I’m nervous. So I like shimmyed my line a wee bit and then I just the most uncom pot ever. Don’t know if you can see it. No you can’t there. I kind of shimmyed my line and then just it wasn’t happening there. So um then I’m no happy looking back. Look it’s never us. Blame someone else. Um so yeah, not wasn’t happy with that because it was kind of offputting and this foam was probably think this foam was still going off there. It was like mate, come on. But um yeah, fair play. Par five coming up on the ninth as well. So another chance get a good T-shot away, which this I like I love playing with a fade. Every T- shot with a kind of fade. This T-shot just almost like doesn’t really suit me. Yeah. Bunkers I really try and leak off it to get it going right. Yeah. Yeah. It was perfect and it was like cuz it’s tight to the bunker as well. It left myself a we bit shorter in and this is new tightless 3wood here first week out with it and this was just so pure. It was straight down the stick. At one point in the air I’m thinking I was going to it was stiff. I might have stiffed it. Um hazard all sort hazard left. People everywhere bunker right would have been right. I would be dead and I’ve just like pured one here. So so good this but eagle part not going to complain too much with that and yeah good it’s good good effort a little bit by but you know a birdie never going to complain about my birthday especially in the the final round when you’re when you’re leading I remember at this point um there when you see like Patrick Reed Thomas Peters and uh my friend Connor S and Jordan Smith like all right behind me I was thinking how can it be Surely it’s not going to be me. So, um, yeah. And when I went on to 10th T, I wasn’t thinking like, oh, let’s get to this number or anything like that cuz I hadn’t been in that all day. I’d just been going in little bursts. Again, like I feel like I’ve played this course a couple last few years as well. And I kind of know the little hard spells in the course. And I knew that like 10 was a tough a really tough hole. So like, you know, if I can get a par there, it’ be good. Then I’ve got a bloody chance on 11, you know, get through them. It doesn’t always work out like that obviously, but you know, I just chipped away nicely and then um yeah, I’m just trying to like stay really in the moment like shot after shot. I feel like that’s what kind of key in the bad weather. It’s just like you get in your we office for every shot and it’s just like right, let’s just kind of do my bit and then it’s done and you’re like right get on my jacket back on Broadway up out the office just walk about and you just kind of plot along really. So it feels a long day out there when it’s like that. um a lot going on in your head, but you just shot after shot. It sounds so cliche, but you know, if if I tried to put a score in my head, I felt like I would have put more pressure in myself. I was trying to take all the pressure off myself by almost saying things like, “Look who’s behind me.” You know, look who’s chasing me. This is so cool. Um in a wee bit of a way, like that is part of the success is getting to the points where even you’re just like leading the tournament. It’s like, you know, the journey to get to get there itself is is so tough. So then to end up just like being there is like a little winner on its own. It’s like I’m leading this massive tournament and like look at the people behind me. It’s like wow, I’m making a name for myself and that’s always a pretty cool a cool thing in its own. And you know, I’m walking with a bit of swagger there. Just very very confident on the onto the 10th T. Um 10th T shot really tough again. can’t go left, but I aimed at the left trees at the hazard and faded it back in the middle of the well not the middle of the fairway but um the left puff which is fine there because it opens up the full green. It’s funny how watching it back as well like how many people are watching you when you’re playing you’re just head down getting on with it. Um she’s up actually the middle of the airway. So fair play to myself on um and yeah this was kind of not a great shot but um the pin was left and I didn’t fancy it too much missing it left cuz I knew I’d be really tough one to get up and down um from that thick roughly short sided pin. So bailed out a lot wasn’t good. Happy to see it catch a little part of the green though. Um and then obviously I’ve left that quite a bit short but I don’t know what it was. See, see when I every time I’ve won five foot just feel like two foot and again this part I just like knew I was going to hold for some reason. It’s like looking at it like no that just easy like just you know you’re just stepping it in and it’s nothing. Um but when you’re you know struggling they put feel really tough and I thought I thought I had a good T- shot here. Um, and it was just wasn’t going as as far as usual because of the kind of heavy atmosphere. Still good in the fairway, but seven wood here and just pulled it a little bit. Um, not my best actually. It was a awful miss. Wanted to get it on the long and the green and that is honestly just like no go cuz you’re chipping down there. You chip it too hard at the green, it rolls into the water. I mean, I’m fizzing there, which is actually funny to see. um just an absolute no go miss and I knew that cuz if you go anywhere along that pin it’s just roll the water and I’ve left it short and flubbed it into the air which is no great but at least the second chip was a lot easier still absolutely fizzing obviously um but I think when you’re doing well and you’re playing well you don’t get that angry because you’re almost like sure of yourself to like hit a good shot the next one and this was a great we chip it’s so fast as you can see if I landed that first from the green. It’s gone. Like weight keeps going down. That’s a big cliff after the pin. So straight into the water again. Another one of the we putts that just you just feel like nothing when you’re when you’re playing well, everything’s going well. Standing over like these putts like come on. But this one was quite a quite a big break left right. So a little bit of pressure on it, but yeah, just felt so good off the part that that week. Brushed her in. Happy days for the young young ebo. Um or the next um pulled it a little bit but you know I knew there’s a big coming off that slope there was all right and if it stayed short of that and you know amazing that little break there comes back you’re ping stays up there you got horrible chip. So um the things that go your way when you’re when you win a tournament or you know things go I have a good week things like that happen. um missed the birdie putt, but again was walking off there feeling grateful that I’d that I’d made a I’d made a par cuz you know it stays up there on the the t-shot you can it’s a bad lie here it’s not going to be not going to be easy and then um yeah 13th T-shot thought it was good but kept fading a little bit in the air and um just found the kind of corner of the bunker bank the ball way above my feet in the heavy rough and um yeah when I got up there I’m thinking oh no this could be like make or break shot there people everywhere ball way above my feet the pins on like a tear and I’m thinking this goes left it’s bloody dead Smithy’s in the middle of the fairway if I leave it out right and I wanted to take a more club and my car was like you need to hit it hard you can’t take more club and try and fiddle something in there or use your hands you’ve Got to turn your body into it hard. So take less club and smash it. I can’t remember what club I had now wedge or something. I took less club and smacked it. And I’m like just trusted my like swing path and I looked up and I just seen this thing come. I’m like I heard a radar in the mic just losing it losing his mind which was which was cool. And yeah tap tap in birdie which was which was good. And then I got in that um 14th T and honestly like again really really tight down there. If you miss the T-shot left, it’s just like in no man’s land. Um, chipping out, miss it right, you can play, but you know, bad lies, get a flyer, you end up big bunkers there and everything like that. And I’ve just smoked this straight in the middle with like no no second thoughts at all. And then this shot was key back pin. Um it just goes to show you as well here how when you’re pumped up a little bit um how much further the ball goes cuz this went like you know my six irons like a 196 yards. just flew like 210 yards, landed to the back edge and um and came back and it ended up being a real key key moment in the the tournament this because Jordan ended up catching a fly out the rough and going long and making a bogey. Um and I was already leading by one. So, you know, this shot came back off that little bank. Lovely little bit back spin. And then I’ve got this part, you know, take a two shot lead where I’m putting for par. He misses it. three shot leads, you know, four holes to go, but I’m thinking it’s mine. It’s mine to lose now. As you can see, his marker. He’s chipped up to there. This was This was massive. Yeah, look at that. Stone Case just wanted to go on to the next. Cool. Third DP World to win first squash of the season, third squash of the season, which is pretty cool. Um, yeah. So, I mean, I get on this on this tea and I’m just like buzzing. I smacked this so far again. Smith usually has a good bit further than me, but not in the last round cuz I just felt like I was just so on it. Strike was there, rhythm, everything. Perfect. again like down that left side of the fairway which is A1 7 iron here bit of an inbetweener um didn’t fancy like long with the back penn I didn’t fancy trusting myself with a three shot lead to take a bit off an iron shot on the green spun back loads actually but yeah I wasn’t wasn’t born with that again you see this part here it’s just when your touch is just so on because you’re just so in tune with everything so focused intensity so But they could have went in. Um they’re really really nervous here. Struggled with this hole during the tournament. Already made double bog this week on this hole. Move the tea up to try and entice us to go for it. And I’ve I’ve laid up with a seven iron or six iron or something. Um and it was perfect. No, no issues at all. I had a stinky we yardage and I was like didn’t want to spin the water and I’ve played a awful pitch really. But with three short lead, three holes to go, you’re thinking don’t really care and just get it on the green. So yeah, it wasn’t it wasn’t a good a good pitch this but you know when you’ve got the shots and everything cuz you’re leading like you know using them feel like might have been a different mindset if I was like tied to the lead. I might have been a bit more glued up to try and hit one close, but yeah, wasn’t too too bothered with with the result. And then brushed it down there to tap in distance and you know, still got a three shot lead. And I actually thought it was going to go to four, but um Smithy was like here in the water. He made a 30 footer for for a par. Um so still leading by three two to go. Um, and then at this point I’m just thinking like Merly Green just 17 to Merly Green managed to do that came back off that slope though which I was gutted about because then the next thing you know the P it’s up over a tear and I’m like oh why is it so much harder now? Um, and it was a lot harder the the putt. Um, and yeah, I managed to like a decent putt. Left myself an uphill started to come back at the end which was nice. um awkward little distance, but then I got the worst feeling ever cuz I’m lining this up. I hear a massive roar on the 18th and I’m like, “What’s that? What’s that?” And I’m like, “That’s my ego last two shot lead now.” And when I’m lining this putt up, I’m like looking at the the ball in the hole. I was thinking if I miss this, it’s only a one shot lead. Then if I hit it in the water on 18, then I need to drop it. And then that would be then I’m going to play off and then I need to and my head was spiraling. So such a bad we feeling this and this was probably the worst stroke of the body day but I just thought it’s so close just jab it in. I just kind of put a little short stroke on and just popped her in there. Um still still leading by two three would have felt so much nicer. So thanks Ma for for putting that pressure on me. But you know winning a golf tour it’s never going to just come easy to you. It’s going to have to deal with these little things during the day. So, um, yeah, on the 18th T, I was thinking lining up. I’m like, I’ve had a perfect drive here every day. Where’s the one place I can’t go to make this easy? I’m like, left. And obviously, I’ve been playing that perfect fade all week, and I’ve just went got the top of my swing. I’ve don’t go left. And I’ve hit the wipest open face, but I knew right I could still easily make a par. Um, and it caught a bit of the fairway, but it was a horrible swing. A very, very, very nervous swing, actually. Yeah, I wasn’t trying to hide the fact that I was like super nervous over this T-shot and brass and Steve there. There’s a water up there. What’s up there? What’s up there? Just proper panicking. Just fizz that down there. Def myself a wedge in and the fair good at this point like you know just it’s your mess up totally here but you just surely can’t the pinion help that kind of long back left p that right bit and um you know my third shot here look at this and it’s just like amazing um to see like all people that have won this before and then all of a sudden you’ve got an opportunity is incredible Bernard Langer’s last event as well pretty cool event to win. And um I’m standing over this wedge and it’s like a perfect yardage for like a little 3/4 56 in spin off. But not me. I had throw 60 of the B and just lumped it as hard as I could to guarantee a strike, stay short, give myself, you know, all this stuff. Um couldn’t even relax here. I’m thinking Smithy makes his playoff with him. So, not not fun, not the funnest of moments. And I remember even just like how nervous I was there with that this first part thinking if I knock it 4 foot by if I knock it this but when it’s weak the touch is just there and honestly how this didn’t go in I’ll never know. Yeah, look at the pace on it. It’s like I walked after it think oh how that that went in. Yeah, just just like having a kind of rough year and sick and I just kind of just all kind of came came rushing came rushing out and yeah moments you work for all your life just back then just to see it standing there thinking I’ve done it is so so so cool and a good moment for me and my car there and it’s just so hard it’s so hard to go to line so you don’t get any opportunity a year. So when finally they managed to just do it, it’s just incredible. Actually watching this right now just makes me want to go to the range and just start practicing and get on the course and work on the game. But yeah, it was incredible moment. So Tara was my first and you know I won Northern Ireland wire to wire which was really cool. Um but uh and it does make it a bit easier because you just think I’ve won that. I’ve won a couple games before. I’ve won once before, you know, now my next time I’ve been in contention, which you know, I was last week in India. It’s like I’ve won three times before. So, it does take a bit pressure off, you know. Yeah, I have done it. And if I don’t get this one, like at least I have, you know, experienced it and done it. But, um, at the same at the same time, it’s still so nerve-wracking because you you want it so much. But, um, knowing that you’ve been able to put yourself through the paces before and actually go over the line does make a difference because you know mentally you’re capable of it. Um so definitely it was yeah it makes a massive difference especially the way I got the one in Northern Ireland done. um you know holding that put and guitar on the last green as well. you’re like having to make it and you do it and all of a sudden you start believing yourself like wait when the going gets tough I can really do it and not even just winning tournaments um even like when you’re in the cut line you make a putt to make the cut you’re like well I’ve told to win tournaments before I can do that you know you get confidence from it and it you know it’s that’s how you get confidence doing well and and just standing up at the right time and letting all that hard work and practice take over and and delivering in the Big moments. Yeah. Have you enjoyed watching me go through my rounds? Um, comment below and let us know who you’d like to see next go through one of their rounds. Cheers, guys. To watch another DP World Tour video, click here. And to subscribe, click here.