Jarmo Sandelin claimed his first European Tour title for more than two years with victory in the inaugural BMW Asian Open in Taiwan.

The Swede carded a final-round 68 for a 10-under-par total of 278, one shot clear of Spain's Jose Maria Olazabal and Thailand's Thongchai Jaidee, to collect the first prize of £171,000.

Sandelin's countryman Carl Pettersson finished in a tie for fourth alongside England's Barry Lane, two shots further back.

"It's a great feeling," said the 34-year-old, who finished a lowly 100th on the Order of Merit this year after struggling to hit top form after taking four months off over the winter around the birth of his first child.

"The game has been up and down for a long time, but somehow I felt I had the game and I was not seeing it in the results."

Sandelin, whose last win at the German Open in 1999 effectively sealed his Ryder Cup place at Brookline, began the final day one shot off the lead held by Pettersson and Spain's Miguel Angel Jimenez, but soon doubled his deficit when he dropped a shot on the opening hole.

However, he responded superbly with four birdies in his next five holes and another on the ninth took him out in 32, four under for the day and 10 under for the tournament.

A brilliant approach to six feet set up another birdie on the 208-yard 11th and took Sandelin three shots clear of the field before his first mistake of the day, a bogey on the 16th after his approach flew over the green, set up a nerve-wracking finish.

Olazabal had already set the clubhouse target on nine under with a birdie on the 18th, while Jaidee could have forced a play-off by matching the Spaniard's feat, but his long birdie effort came up inches short.

The 16th had, in fact, been a costly hole for Sandelin all week. He ran up a quadruple-bogey eight in the pro-am on Wednesday, a double-bogey six in the first round and bogeys on Friday and Sunday with just one par on Saturday.

He said: "In the pro-am I went in the water so today I just thought make sure you get over the water and I was so far over I was almost in the bushes and saw some monkeys I think!

"I also made a big mistake on the 14th when the group in front were looking for a ball.

"We made the decision to go through and I hit a really bad three-wood and then realised it was better to be behind the guy who was chasing me because suddenly I could not see what was going on behind me."

Fortunately for Sandelin the man chasing him, Thailand's Jaidee, could not birdie any of the final four holes to force a play-off and the Swede held on for his fifth tour title.

Olazabal, meanwhile, was delighted with his display and in particular his improved driving. "It was a very good performance," the double Masters champion said.

"I left a couple of shots out on the golf course, but overall I'm very happy with the way I played this week and the result today.

"My driving was very good this week and I wish it could be like this every week. I've been working all year long to try and hit the ball like I did this week and hopefully I will be able to do this more often."

278 J Sandelin (Swe) 72 66 72 68 (£171,773)

279 JM Olazabal (Spa) 70 70 72 67, T Jaidee (Tha) 74 70 68 67 (£92,141 each)

281 B Lane 70 73 69 69, C Pettersson (Swe) 72 68 69 72 (£47,829 each)

282 M Campbell (Nzl) 72 73 71 66, MA Jimenez (Spa) 70 69 70 73

283 V Singh (Fij) 71 69 73 70, S Dodd 72 69 70 72, B Davis 72 70 69 72

284 S Scahill (Nzl) 70 71 74 69, R Muntz (Ned) 72 70 73 69, C Wi (Kor) 76 68 68 72

285 S Webster 76 71 70 68

286 T Oh (Kor) 72 73 72 69, J Randhawa (Ind) 71 75 71 69, S Kjeldsen (Den) 75 68 71 72

287 A Forsbrand (Swe) 76 66 78 67, K Felton (Aus) 76 70 72 69, G Evans 70 74 72 71, P Golding 73 73 70 71, A Percey (Aus) 74 70 71 72, U Park (Aus) 71 71 72 73, J Spence 69 72 72 74, T Levet (Fra) 71 70 69 77

288 C Cevaer (Fra) 75 68 76 69, G Havret (Fra) 77 71 71 69, T Johnstone (Zim) 69 75 74 70, K Han (Myanmar) 71 78 69 70, N Faldo 73 70 74 71, J Kingston (Rsa) 76 69 70 73, T-C Wang (Taipei) 73 73 69 73

289 A Atwal (Ind) 76 70 73 70, K Eriksson (Swe) 74 74 71 70, H Buhrmann (Rsa) 72 75 68 74

290 J Rystrom (Swe) 78 65 74 73, S Lindskog (Swe) 74 72 71 73

291 S Hansen (Den) 77 72 71 71, N Reilly 76 71 72 72, S Delagrange (Fra) 68 77 72 74

292 JF Remesy (Fra) 74 75 72 71, K-S Choi (Kor) 75 73 71 73, D Terblanche (Rsa) 74 71 72 75, J Lomas 80 69 68 75, Y-S Hsieh (Taipei) 79 70 67 76

293 W-T Yeh (Taipei) 74 75 76 68, R Jacquelin (Fra) 73 71 77 72, Y-C Chen (Taipei) 75 73 73 72, H Bjornstad (Nor) 74 72 74 73, C Cowper 77 70 70 76

294 P Sjoland (Swe) 77 72 74 71, G Hanrahan (USA) 71 76 75 72, E Boult (Nzl) 73 75 73 73, S Akiba (Jpn) 74 72 74 74

295 W-T Lu (Taipei) 74 74 74 73, A Meeks (USA) 77 71 74 73, F Quinn (USA) 75 74 71 75

296 S Drummond 76 73 76 71, C-H Chung (Taipei) 74 71 77 74, G Clark 69 75 76 76, A Singh (Ind) 74 73 72 77

297 M Mackenzie 74 73 78 72, M James 77 72 76 72, L Thompson 75 73 76 73, D Gleeson (Aus) 73 74 75 75, C-H Lin (Taipei) 77 72 72 76

298 T Dier (Ger) 74 73 75 76, M Farry (Fra) 76 69 75 78, I Poulter 71 77 72 78

299 J Stewart 76 71 78 74, S Dyson 73 74 77 75

300 C Kamps (Rsa) 75 74 77 74, M Cunning (USA) 78 71 77 74, R Ponce (Ecu) 72 77 76 75, N Van Rensburg (Rsa) 71 76 75 78

301 R Cuello (Phi) 74 73 78 76, D Nouailhac (Fra) 80 67 76 78, C-S Lu (Taipei) 75 73 75 78

305 D Zarate (Phi) 77 70 80 78

306 M-N Hsieh (Taipei) 73 76 78 79