Michael Campbell got to make the winner's speech at the Smurfit European Open on Sunday. But thinking about it nearly cost him the title.

The New Zealander amazingly bogeyed the last four holes and still became £333,330 richer at the K Club near Dublin.

From five clear Campbell gave himself an almighty fright before taking the trophy by a single stroke from Padraig Harrington, Paul Lawrie, Retief Goosen and Bradley Dredge.

"I was preparing my speech, I think," said the 33-year-old after his fifth European tour success.

"I was thinking of the consequences of winning and my mind was racing too far ahead. It's one of those things that happened - I'm just relieved."

Home hope Harrington was the one left cursing most after the 17th runners-up finish of his career.

Harrington was playing with Campbell and started his comeback bid when he birdied the 15th and the Kiwi bogeyed it.

On the dramatic par five next Harrington went for the green in two, went in the water and yet still cut the gap to two. He escaped with a five, whereas Campbell laid up in the rough, went over the green and played a horrid chip.

When Campbell then bogeyed the 17th Harrington missed a three-foot putt which would have brought him to only one behind.

But that was still not the end of the matter. Campbell went into the lake at the last - and Harrington, suddenly in with a chance again, followed him in.

Bizarrely, Campbell had not dropped a shot all day until the 15th and birdies at the fourth, 12th and 13th gave him a closing 73 and six-under-par total of 282 - 15 strokes more than Per-Ulrik Johansson's winning score on the course five years ago.

Collated final totals:

(GB and IRE unless stated, par 72):

282 Michael Campbell (Nzl) 68 71 70 73 (£333,330)

283 Bradley Dredge 71 71 73 68, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 71 72 72 68, Paul Lawrie 70 71 69 73, Padraig Harrington 72 69 69 73 (£133,080 each)

284 Angel Cabrera (Arg) 72 71 71 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 69 77 68 70, Colin Montgomerie 69 75 68 72 (£60,000 each)

285 Darren Fichardt (Rsa) 67 74 76 68, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 71 71 74 69, Jarrod Moseley (Aus) 67 75 73 70, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 71 70 73 71, Paul Casey 71 73 69 72, Joakim Haeggman (Swe) 68 73 71 73, Barry Lane 69 71 71 74

286 Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 75 72 72 67, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 77 69 71 69, Lee Westwood 72 71 72 71, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 74 72 69 71

287 Darren Clarke 74 70 76 67, Rolf Muntz (Ned) 72 73 72 70, Mark Mouland 70 76 71 70, Mark Pilkington 71 69 75 72, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 72 72 73, Fred Funk (USA) 72 75 67 73, Ian Woosnam 73 74 67 73

288 Sebastien Delagrange (Fra) 69 73 74 72, Richard Johnson (Swe) 71 72 73 72, Mark James 73 72 71 72

289 Eamonn Darcy 75 72 73 69, Richard Green (Aus) 74 70 75 70, Gary Murphy 72 73 74 70, Steen Tinning (Den) 70 74 74 71, Santiago Luna (Spa) 71 73 73 72, Roger Chapman 73 73 71 72, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 73 72 71 73, Paul Broadhurst 73 73 70 73, Eduardo Romero (Arg) 74 69 71 75

290 Markus Brier (Aut) 75 71 74 70, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 70 77 72 71

291 Peter Hanson (Swe) 75 72 74 70, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 73 72 75 71, Andrew Marshall 74 72 74 71, Sven Struver (Ger) 70 73 76 72, Jorge Berendt (Arg) 68 73 76 74, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 71 76 70 74, David Carter 73 74 70 74

292 Richard Bland 75 72 76 69, Brian Davis 73 72 76 71, Marten Olander (Swe) 73 72 75 72, Anders Hansen (Den) 71 73 75 73, Marc Farry (Fra) 74 72 73 73, Roger Wessels (Rsa) 72 73 73 74, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 74 71 70 77

293 Paul Eales 77 70 76 70, Warren Bennett 75 70 75 73<

294 Ian Garbutt 72 71 80 71, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 71 75 74 74, Sam Torrance 71 74 74 75, Mark McNulty (Zim) 70 74 73 77, Greg Norman (Aus) 69 76 72 77

295 Gary Clark 73 74 80 68, Peter Fowler (Aus) 76 71 76 72, Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 73 71 75 76

296 Lucas Parsons (Aus) 70 75 76 75, Jamie Donaldson 70 71 77 78

297 Chris Gane 69 78 77 73, Raymond Russell 75 70 75 77

298 David Howell 72 72 79 75

299 John Dwyer 69 75 77 78, Andrew Coltart 72 70 77 80

300 Gregory Havret (Fra) 77 70 78 75