LANGER JUST FAILS IN BID TO BECOME
OLDEST PLAYER TO WIN ON EUROPEAN
TOUR - JT 2nd BEHIND FASTH

Bernhard Langer - 50 on August 27 - narrowly failed in his bid to become the oldest winner in European Tour history as Sweden's Niclas Fasth took the BMW International Open in Munich by two strokes with a closing 70 and 13 under par total of 275.
Langer had nearly pulled out on Thursday when a neck problem saw him struggle to a 76 and joint 135th place, but he then added rounds of 66 and 68 and was only one behind after five birdies in his first 17 holes of the final round.
However, much to his disappointment and that of the home crowd, he pulled his second into rough at the par-5 home holel, failed to salvage a birdie and Fasth doubled his advantage with a seven-foot birdie putt on the 17th.
A sixth Tour victory and the £225,396 first prize was the Swede's after a par on the last.
Langer was joint second - with Portugal's Jose-Filipe Lima - just as he was to South African Rory Sabbatini after a play-off on the US Tour a month ago. The German had also just failed to become the first player on the European circuit to win after surviving the halfway cut with nothing to spare.
FINAL TOTALS
Par 288 (4 x 72)
Players GB&I unless stated.
275 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 67 65 73 70
277 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 65 70 70 72, Bernhard Langer (Ger) 76 66 68 67
278 Anders Hansen (Den) 68 70 72 68, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 68 71 69 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 71 67 73 67
279 Ernie Els (Rsa) 67 71 74 67, Simon Khan 70 71 72 66
280 Benn Barham 72 69 71 68, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 67 72 73
281 Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 66 74 73, Anthony Wall 72 70 73 66, Alastair Forsyth 68 73 67 73, Simon Dyson 72 66 73 70, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 69 73 70 69, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 65 74 73 69, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 70 69 73 69
282 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 69 72 70 71, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 66 71 73, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69 74 70, Oliver Wilson 70 68 75 69
283 Shiv Kapur (Ind) 72 70 73 68, Andres Romero (Arg) 67 68 75 73, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 68 74 74 67, Sam Little 74 67 74 68
284 Ross Fisher 71 71 76 66, Nick Dougherty 68 68 71 77, David Frost (Rsa) 67 70 70 77, David Lynn 71 66 74 73, Steven O'Hara 69 70 73 72, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 73 66 73 72, Ian Garbutt 69 71 75 69
285 Christian Cevaer (Fra) 70 67 72 76, David Griffiths 69 69 73 74, Phillip Price 73 69 68 75, Peter Fowler (Aus) 68 73 71 73, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 70 74 72, Philip Golding 71 69 74 71
286 Paul Casey 68 70 74 74, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 71 68 75 72, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 66 72 72 76, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 71 70 75 70
287 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 68 72 75 72, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 74 66 78 69
288 Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 73 65 75 75, Terry Price (Aus) 74 68 74 72, Peter Lawrie 71 67 77 73
289 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 67 73 75 74, Lee Slattery 75 66 76 72, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 69 74 75, David Higgins 73 69 74 73
290 Tom Whitehouse 70 68 77 75, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 74 67 77 72, Paul Broadhurst 66 73 79 72
291 Edward Rush 71 70 75 75
292 Brett Rumford (Aus) 70 70 77 75
293 David Park 72 70 77 74
294 Alexander Noren (Swe) 72 69 74 79
295 Juan Parron (Spa) 74 67 72 82
297 Marc Farry (Fra) 66 76 75 80, Jamie Spence 71 71 78 77, Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 73 69 80 75
298 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 71 79 77
299 Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 73 67 78 81, Graeme Storm 71 69 78 81