Monday, May 15 2006 14:15 Hrs (IST) - World Time -

Sutton Coldfield: Sweden's Johan Edfors won the British Masters at The Belfry on Sunday by one shot.

Edfors came from four shots back to win with an 11 under par total of 277.

Joint second were Englishman Gary Emerson, Scot Stephen Gallacher and another Swede, Jarmo Sandelin.

Edfors, who started the year ranked 410, became the shock winner after three of the biggest names in European golf all had a day to forget.

With a round to play, Paul Casey led by two from US Open champion Michael Campbell, with Darren Clarke one shot further back.

But in what became a comedy of errors, Casey and Clarke both shot 76 and Campbell had a 74 and not one of them even managed second place, let alone take the 300,000 pounds (525,000 dollars) title.

Edfors, 30, little-known until now apart from the fact that he used to have Sven-Goran Eriksson's son as his caddie, needed only a closing 70 to take the title with an 11-under-par total of 277.

The winning cheque more than doubled his European tour earnings and that is even taking into account his maiden victory on the circuit in China in March.

Edfors won there with a closing birdie. This time he triumphed despite a closing bogey, and that rather summed up the final day of action.

Birdie putts of 25 feet at the 15th and 17th, the two par fives on the inward half of the famous Ryder Cup venue, were the shots which suddenly proppelled him into a leading candidate for this September's match in Dublin.

Emerson (67), Gallacher (71) and Sandelin (70) would have been in a play-off for the win if any of them had birdied the 473-yard last.

Casey and Campbell came to the hole in the same position but were hardly full of confidence after what had gone before and once both had missed the green, they bogeyed to fall into a tie for fifth place.

Clarke, meanwhile, bogeyed three of the last four and ended up tied for 11th.