Graeme McDowell allowed a potential winning position slip away in the final round of the rain-shortened Bank Austria Open in Vienna this afternoon.
Needing birdies with two to play, McDowell three-putted the 17th and then dumped his approach into the water on the last to finish in a tie for eighth on 11-under.
Singh carded a closing 71 with 18 straight pars to claim his third European Tour title after two second places earlier this season.
At 15-under-par, Singh finished one clear of England's Simon Wakefield, who birdied three of the last four holes, with compatriot Iain Pyman, Swedish trio Martin Erlandsson, Pelle Edberg and Michael Jonzon and Australian Peter Fowler sharing third on 12-under.
"I feel very fortunate to win with 18 pars," said Singh, who won the Volvo Masters and Volvo China Open in 2006. "Shooting even par on the last day it's tough to win and Simon put up a great fight.
"I think the golfing gods were looking out for me. They did not want a play-off with the bad weather forecast. I didn't hit my last putt hard enough but it caught the edge of the hole and went in.
"I had no idea about matching Nick Faldo. I was trying to make birdies but they just weren't going in. When you have a lead you don't want to be too aggressive or too defensive, you just play 'mediocre' golf and hit fairways and greens.
"It's great to win, it's always a feather in your cap. I've knocked on the door a few times this season and at last the door has opened for me. I'm pretty excited about that."
Collated Scores
(Irish & Gbr unless stated, Irish in bold)
198 Jeev Milkha Singh (Ind) 64 63 71
199 Simon Wakefield 66 65 68
201 Iain Pyman 69 67 65, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 67 69 65, Michael Jonzon (Swe) 70 64 67, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 64 72 65, Peter Fowler (Aus) 65 67 69
202 Robert Rock 68 69 65, Graeme McDowell 67 67 68, Francois Delamontagne (Fra) 69 68 65, Soren Hansen (Den) 68 65 69, Sam Little 68 67 67
203 Francesco Molinari (Ita) 68 67 68, Paul Waring 68 68 67, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 67 71 65, Kyron Sullivan 71 67 65, Mark Brown (USA) 69 63 71, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 71 68 64
204 Richard Bland 66 67 71, Stephen Gallacher 67 70 67, Darren Clarke 70 69 65, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 65 69 70, Graeme Storm 69 69 66, James Morrison 70 67 67
205 Garry Houston 68 67 70, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 64 71 70, Steven O'Hara 67 70 68, Julio Zapata (Arg) 70 65 70, Sion Bebb 74 63 68, Lee Slattery 69 70 66, Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 67 70 68, Andrew Marshall 70 69 66, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 70 67, David Higgins 71 66 68
206 Anthony Wall 67 71 68, Juan Abbate (Arg) 70 65 71, Fabrizio Zanotti (Par) 67 68 71
207 Chris Gane 68 68 71, Adilson Da Silva (Bra) 69 68 70, Jan Are Larsen (Nor) 71 66 70, Paul Lawrie 68 69 70, Gary Murphy 64 69 74, Edoardo Molinari (Ita) 69 69 69, Pablo Larrazabal (Spa) 68 68 71
208 Andrew Tampion (Aus) 70 69 69, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 70 70 68, Kariem Baraka (Ger) 69 68 71, Adam Gee 66 71 71
209 Joakim Backstrom (Swe) 68 71 70, Martin Wiegele (Aut) 64 71 74, Peter Baker 70 68 71, Scott Strange (Aus) 69 67 73, Andrew Coltart 71 65 73, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 67 70 72, Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 67 72 70, Scott Barr (Aus) 64 73 72, Santiago Luna (Spa) 72 68 69, Ian Garbutt 66 71 72, Thomas Aiken (Rsa) 66 71 72
210 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 73 64 73
211 Zane Scotland (Gbr) 70 70 71, Sven Struver (Ger) 70 65 76, Liam Bond 66 70 75, Stuart Manley 69 71 71
212 Tim Dykes 67 73 72, Alejandro Canizares (Spa) 70 68 74
213 Craig Lee 71 69 73, Steve Alker (Nzl) 76 64 73
215 Robert McGuirk 74 66 75
218 Toni Karjalainen (Fin) 70 70 78
