Amateur Championship 2013: Ewen Ferguson flies the flag for Scotland The 17-year-old from Bearsden came from three down after the first five holes to defeat Germany's Michael Hirmer, a pupil at Loretto School near Musselburgh, by 10 & 9 in the 36-hole final at Royal Liverpool. It was a result which made Ferguson the first Scottish winner since Jordan Findlay defeated Tom Sherreard 2 & 1 at Conwy in 2004 and it reversed the result on the last occasion a Scot met a German in the final, when Bernhard Neumann beat Findlay on the Scot's defence of his title at Hunstanton in 2005. The first round of the final began in a brisk 20 mile per hour wind and it was the German who was first to acclimatise to the conditions. He went one up with a solid par at the 372-yard par-4 second and then doubled that advantage when the Scot failed to extricate himself from a greenside bunker on the par-3 fourth. Hirmer went on to win the fifth with a regulation par but Ferguson started his fightback with a 35-foot birdie putt across the green on the sixth and then won both the seventh and the eighth to get back to all square for the first time since the second. The wind was still howling across the course as Ferguson won the 10th but he gave back a hole with a wayward drive on the 12th before starting his charge for the clubhouse by holing an 18-foot putt for a birdie to win the par-3 13th. Ferguson was three-under-par for the last 14 holes of his morning round and he was two-under-par in the afternoon. by the time he claimed the match on the 27th hole.