COLIN MONTGOMERIE WINS EUROPEAN
OPEN - FIRST VICTORY FOR 19 MONTHS

Colin Montgomerie survived two late scares and two thunderstorm interruptions to pull off his first win in 19 months today.
Just 23 days after he crashed out of the US Open with a second round 82 - his second worst score ever in a major - Montgomerie followed up his third place in last week's French Open with victory in the Smurfit Kappa European Open at the K Club near Dublin.
Across the River Liffey from where he celebrated Ryder Cup triumph last September Montgomerie fired a closing 65 to win by one from Swede Niclas Fasth. But his tee shots on the final two holes - both par 3s - were both perilously close to going in the water.
He saved par both times and then had to wait during a second storm delay of 82 minutes before Fasth, having missed an eight-foot birdie putt to tie on the 17th, failed from 14 feet at the last.
The £400,000 first prize was Montgomerie's once Peter Hanson had then failed to hole-in-one at the last and overnight leader Soren Hansen failed to birdie the 17th.
FOURTH-ROUND TOTALS
Par 280 (4 x 70)
269 Colin Montgomerie 69 64 71 65
270 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 65 68 70 67
271 Peter Hanson (Swe) 68 69 66 68, Anthony Wall 68 72 66 65, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 67 65 73 66, Gregory Havret (Fra) 65 70 68 68
272 Soren Hansen (Den) 69 68 63 72, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 68 68 68 68, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 72 68 63 69, Thomas Levet (Fra) 70 67 68 67
273 Robert Rock 65 71 66 71, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 66 71 69 67, Simon Khan 67 67 71 68, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 71 69 67 66
274 Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 67 72 69 66, Phillip Archer 70 69 66 69, Per-Ulrik Johansson (Swe) 69 69 69 67
275 Graeme McDowell 69 70 65 71, Alexander Noren (Swe) 70 71 70 64, Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 68 70 68 69, Richard Green (Aus) 69 67 71 68, Ariel Canete (Arg) 67 71 72 65, Peter Fowler (Aus) 70 71 67 67, Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 69 71 68 67
276 Steve Webster 70 70 65 71, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 69 66 71 70, Marc Warren 69 69 70 68, Markus Brier (Aut) 71 68 70 67, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 73 68 64 71, David Frost (Rsa) 68 66 70 72, Jyoti Randhawa (Ind) 65 70 71 70, Paul Broadhurst 72 69 67 68, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 71 67 70 68
277 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 67 73 69 68, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 71 70 70 66, David Griffiths 70 70 68 69, Andres Romero (Arg) 73 67 71 66, Gonzalo Fdez-Castano (Spa) 70 69 70 68, Simon Wakefield 70 69 65 73, Johan Edfors (Swe) 69 70 68 70
278 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 69 68 67 74, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 66 69 72 71, Sven Struver (Ger) 73 67 66 72, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 68 72 71 67
279 Robert Jan Derksen (Ned) 73 66 72 68, David Howell 69 72 69 69, Alastair Forsyth 72 68 69 70, Marcel Siem (Ger) 68 73 71 67, Terry Price (Aus) 71 69 69 70, Graeme Storm 71 67 74 67
280 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 68 71 69 72, Stephen Dodd 66 73 71 70, Paul Lawrie 70 69 72 69, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 64 72 72 72, Padraig Harrington 71 68 69 72
281 Gary Lockerbie 71 70 69 71, Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa) 68 72 74 67, David Higgins 73 68 68 72, Ian Garbutt 67 73 71 70
282 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 71 70 72 69, Yong-eun Yang (Kor) 73 68 70 71, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 69 69 66 78, Angel Cabrera (Arg) 71 69 74 68
284 Lee Slattery 72 68 72 72, Mark Pilkington 71 70 75 68, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 68 72 73 71
285 Rafael Echenique (Arg) 72 69 74 70
287 Thaworn Wiratchant (Tha) 68 73 69 7