Maarten Lafeber paid tribute to his supporters after becoming the first home winner of the Dutch Open for more than half a century with a nerve-wracking victory at Hilversum.

Lafeber, who lives in nearby Amsterdam, carded a final-round 67 to also claim his maiden European Tour title in the perfect fashion and delight the large crowd.

The 28-year-old's 13-under-par total of 267 gave him the first prize of £116,000 with Denmark's Soren Hansen and Swede Mathias Gronberg sharing second, two shots behind.

Welshman Jamie Donaldson finished joint fourth on 10 under alongside another Dane, Steen Tinning, who eagled the last in his penultimate event before retiring with a back injury.

Lafeber said: "The support was incredible - unbelievable for four days. I just want to thank them all.

"It was a dream come true, it feels incredible. I don't know what to say. I played really solid golf.

"What I planned was to play my own game, hit good drives, hit good second shots and don't do anything stupid, I played it shot by shot up to the last."

Hansen began the day with a one-shot lead and quickly stretched that to three with birdies at the second and third, the latter following a superb approach to within two feet of the flag.

That briefly subdued the enthusiastic crowds hoping for a Dutch victory, but Lafeber gave them something to cheer with a birdie on the sixth from 15 feet to close the gap.

Hansen's lead was then trimmed to a single stroke when he bogeyed the eighth after driving into the trees and being forced to play out sideways, but the major turning point was to come on the next.

Hansen carved his approach into more trees and failed to escape from the foliage at the first attempt, and then compounded his error with a poor chip and two putts for a double-bogey six.

Lafeber had already hit a superb second to four feet and calmly holed for a birdie and a three-shot swing on the hole, moving into the lead for the first time on 12 under par.

His nearest challenger was now Gronberg who joined Lafeber at the top of the leaderboard with his sixth birdie of the day - and third two on the back nine - on the 15th.

But Gronberg then bogeyed the 16th after finding a greenside bunker and a birdie on the last was only good enough for a share of second.

In the final group Lafeber and Hansen both birdied the 12th and after a bogey on the 13th, Hansen ensured a nail-biting finish with birdies on the 14th and 16th.

Both players then just missed the 18th green in two and chipped to five feet, but Hansen missed his birdie putt to potentially force a play-off, and Lafeber gratefully accepted his two putts to become the first Dutch winner of the title since Joop Ruhl in 1947.

The champion revealed how he felt under huge pressure on the 18th green and was pleased not to have to make birdie in order to win.

He said: "I was so glad not to have to make that putt on the last. I have wanted to win so badly in the last few months."

Meanwhile Gronberg had mixed emotions after a closing 65 which contained two bogeys and a three-putt par on the 12th as he chased his second victory of the season.

"I was not even thinking about winning the tournament this morning," said Gronberg. "I was hoping to shoot five or six under and see what would come with that.

"I'm very happy to shoot five under but slightly disappointed to have a three putt and two bogeys with a seven and eight iron in my hand.

"When you're standing there on 16 with an eight iron in your hand you're thinking birdie not bogey, and I was trying to hole that putt on the 12th for eagle but these things happen."

Collated scores and totals in final round of Dutch Open, Hilversum

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, Par 70):

(x) denotes amateurs

267 Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 67 69 64 67 (£116,211)

268 Mathias Gronberg (Swe) 70 66 67 65, Soren Hansen (Den) 68 65 66 69 (£60,563 each)

270 Steen Tinning (Den) 66 67 69 68, Jamie Donaldson 64 70 67 69 (£32,214 each)

271 Alastair Forsyth 64 72 68 67, Gary Evans 70 68 65 68, Gary Murphy 64 70 67 70

272 Adam Mednick (Swe) 68 67 73 64, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 69 68 66, Stephen Dodd 67 70 68 67, Kenneth Ferrie 70 67 68 67, Gary Emerson 68 68 67 69, Fredrik Andersson (Swe) 67 66 69 70

273 David Carter 65 70 72 66, Brian Davis 69 71 67 66, Simon Dyson 69 66 69 69

274 Pierre Fulke (Swe) 68 69 72 65, Steve Webster 67 73 67 67, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 70 69 67 68, David Lynn 65 69 71 69, Santiago Luna (Spa) 69 70 66 69, Marten Olander (Swe) 70 68 66 70, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 65 70 71, Jamie Spence 69 69 65 71

275 Anthony Wall 67 70 68 70

276 Warren Bennett 70 70 71 65, Benn Barham 69 66 72 69, Gary Orr 71 67 68 70, Mark Roe 67 72 67 70

277 Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 67 71 70 69, Brad Kennedy (Aus) 68 71 69 69, Malcolm Mackenzie 68 70 68 71, Gordon Brand Jnr 67 66 72 72, David Park 68 67 67 75, Nicolas Colsaerts (Bel) 67 69 66 75

278 Andrew Oldcorn 71 67 74 66, Andrew Coltart 69 70 71 68, Ian Garbutt 70 67 71 70, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 66 71 70 71

279 Ian Woosnam 70 70 72 67, Tobias Dier (Ger) 69 71 70 69, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 70 68 71 70, John Bickerton 67 71 71 70, Marc Farry (Fra) 70 70 69 70, Costantino Rocca (Ita) 70 65 73 71, Raymond Russell 70 70 68 71, Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 71 68 67 73, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 70 69 67 73

280 Stephen Gallacher 72 68 71 69, David Howell 70 69 70 71, Mark James 67 72 70 71, Barry Lane 69 71 69 71, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 70 70 69 71, Andrew Marshall 68 67 73 72, Roger Chapman 71 68 69 72, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 65 69 75, Bradley Dredge 67 70 68 75

281 Jonathan Lomas 67 72 73 69, Rolf Muntz (Ned) 66 73 73 69, Martin Maritz (Rsa) 73 67 70 71, Peter Baker 67 72 70 72, Stephen Scahill (Nzl) 66 71 71 73, Fredrik Widmark (Swe) 65 66 75 75, Paul Eales 69 65 72 75

283 Simon Wakefield 70 69 72 72

284 (x) Jan-Willem Van Hoof (Ned) 74 65 73 72, Tony Johnstone (Zim) 66 70 71 77, Mark Pilkington 67 72 68 77

285 Nicolas Vanhootegem (Bel) 67 71 75 72, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 72 68 73 72, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 66 75 73, Nick Dougherty 70 68 73 74

286 Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 70 70 74 72

288 Joost Steenkamer (Ned) 67 72 73 76