Warren takes Scandinavian title after playoff

Britain's Marc Warren claimed his maiden European Tour title when he beat Swede Robert Karlsson in a sudden-death playoff in …

Britain's Marc Warren claimed his maiden European Tour title when he beat Swede Robert Karlsson in a sudden-death playoff in the Scandinavian Masters.

The pair had finished on 10-under-par 278, a stroke better than South Africa's Richard Sterne.

Warren birdied the 72nd hole for a three-under-par 69 to take Karlsson, who had led the final round by four strokes at one stage, to the shootout as the Swede's bogey on the penultimate hole for a closing 71 eventually proved costly.

Both players bogeyed the first extra hole, and then a par at the second time of asking on the 18th was enough to earn 25-year-old Warren victory.

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The victorious Scot, who holed the winning putt for Britain and Ireland in the 2001 Walker Cup against the United States, is playing his first full season on the main European Tour after winning last season's Challenge Tour.

He showed commendable calm to overcome Europe's man-of-the-moment Karlsson, who had secured a four-stroke European Players Championship success one week ago.

Karlsson's consolation was to pick up the 177,770 Ryder Cup points for runner-up that clinched his debut in Europe's team against the US next month at the K Club.