Jeev 49th, Edoardo Molinari wins Scottish Open

LOCH LOMOND - Jeev Milkha Singh finished in a modest 49th place with a final round of three-over 74 and a total of seven-over 291 in the Barclay’s Scottish Open on Sunday. The Indian star had two birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey in the final round.

His earlier rounds were 68, 75 and 74.

In the last two starts, he was 11th at BMW International at Munich and 16th at the French Open in Versailles.

Italian Edoardo Molinari joined his brother Francesco as a European Tour winner at The Barclays Scottish Open. With Francesco watching him - he finished joint fourth - the 29 year old Edoardo won his duel with Darren Clarke to become champion at Loch Lomond.

Edoardo, one ahead after his stunning third round 63, closed with a 74 in the much tougher conditions and, with a 12 under par total of 272, took the 601,599 euro first prize by three.

The compensation for runner-up Clarke was that, with Molinari already exempt for this coming week’s Open Championship, he took the one St Andrews spot up for grabs.

No brothers have played together in The Ryder Cup since Bernard and Geoffrey Hunt in 1963, back in the days when it was just Great Britain against America.

But Francesco, who a week ago lost a play-off for the Alstom Open de France to Miguel Angel Jiménez, moves up from eighth to fifth in the points race.

And winner Edoardo, who first hit the headlines by winning the US Amateur Championship title five years ago, is up from 11th to sixth on the world list from which the first four members of Colin Montgomerie’s Europe Team will come.

With Francesco having won the 2006 Italian Open, Edoardo’s victory makes them the third brothers to lift European Tour titles - and this just eight months after they combined to win the Omega Mission Hills World Cup in China.

Seve and Manuel Ballesteros did it and so did their fellow Spaniards Antonio and German Garrido.