Double Tour winning Ewen Ferguson will take the hour’s drive south to Abu Dhabi this coming week and his first New Year competition steps that could hopfully lead to him boarding a charter flight later this year to Rome.
Ferguson, 26, has been in Dubai since a week prior to Christmas working on his game before he joins fellow Scot Bob MacIntyre in the 10-man GB & I team to tackle a European side in the inaugural Hero Cup.
The Hero Cup, akin to the Seve Trophy that ran from 2000 to 2013, starts Friday at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club and is a Ryder Cup format to assist European Team captain Luke Donald in likely Rome qualifiers.
Ewen Ferguson teeing-up next week in his first competitive steps of 2023 and hoping all roads lead to Rome in late September.
Donald, along with three of his Rome vice-captains in Thomas Bjorn, Nicolas Colsaerts and Eduardo Molinari, will oversee the three days of competition in the UAE capital where GB & I captain Tommy Fleetwood will lead his team against Francesco Molinari’s Europeans.
Ferguson said: “It’s going to be a great honour teeing-up in the Hero Cup and I know if I continue to take care of playing good golf goals like playing in a Ryder Cup will happen.
“Though I’m not rushing because if I can keep doing all the small things right, who knows where in the bigger picture you can end-up”.
Ferguson’s arrival into Dubai was spoiled as his clubs went missing for just over a week and with the Scot giving British Airways a wee reminder Tweet saying: “My golf clubs have been lost for a week now. Please find them for me @BritishAirways”.
The reigning CB Qatar Masters and ISPS World Invitational champ has spent the Christmas/New Year period with social rounds at the Emirates Club, and venue for the January 26th Hero Dubai Desert Classic, as well as tackling Yas Links, and host for next week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and also the opening rich Rolex Series event of the year.
Ferguson kick-started his 2022 season at Yas Links in sharing 39th place and he also tweeted his pleasure in returning to the course on Christmas Day saying: “Incredible course, amazing condition @YasLinksGC thanks so much to @Coreyfinn1 for hosting us. Excited to kick off the season here in Jan for @ADGolfChamps”.
Since then, Ferguson’s spent a lot of time at the opposite end of the Jumeirah Estate practice range, and where you’ll find the renamed Tommy Fleetwood Performance Centre that was officially opened ahead of last November’s season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
Ferguson tweeting snaps on the range saying: “Back into the swing of things” and also “Back to work @EwboF”.
The Hero Cup will be the first of a run of three DP World Tour events in succession in the UAE for both Ferguson and MacIntyre.
