Sweden's Pierre Fulke held off the challenge of fellow countryman Henrik Nystrom to win the £400,000 Scottish PGA Championship at Gleneagles yesterday.

The pair virtually turned the event into a match-play contest. Nystrom produced the early fireworks, but crucial errors towards the end of the final round let Fulke - who did not drop a stroke all day - pick up the £66,600 winners' cheque.

Fulke saw his closing 70 for a 17-under-par total of 271 good enough for a two-shot winning cushion over Nystrom who closed with a 69 for 273, with Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin third on 277.

The win was the second in the European Tour career of 29-year-old Fulke after his success in last year's Lancome Trophy and proof that his recent seven-month lay-off with a wrist injury was finally behind him.

Three shots clear of Nystrom overnight, Fulke's lead was eaten into by his fellow countryman when he holed from 40 feet for an eagle three at the second. Then further birdies at the ninth and tenth put Nystrom, who had not previously finished in the top 10 of a European Tour event, into the lead.

The 31-year-old held on to that advantage as both players birdied the 503-yard 12th. But Nystrom's challenge began to crumble when he three-putted the 13th for a double-bogey six after coming up short of the green in two and fluffing his pitch.