Sweden's Christopher Hanell won the Madeira Island Open after Australia's Brad Kennedy twice cruelly fell victim to the 18th.

Kennedy mistakenly signed for a quadruple-bogey eight instead of a seven in his third-round 80 this morning to fall five shots off the lead.

And after a superb final round fightback in gale-force winds, the 29-year-old then bogeyed the 18th to miss out on a play-off by a single stroke.

Hanell carded a closing 71 at Santo da Serra for a four-under total of 284, claiming his first European Tour title and the winner's cheque for £67,153.

Kennedy finished in a tie for second on three under alongside Sweden's Steven Jeppesen and American Rob Rashell.

Welshman Garry Houston and Birmingham's Sam Walker were another shot back in fifth with second-round leader Jamie Spence, who also carded a third round of 80, sharing seventh on one under.

"It's my first event of the year and I'm very happy and excited about the year coming up, in fact I've been excited about it since getting my card at the tour school in November," said Hanell, who lost his card in 2002 and spent last year on the Challenge Tour.

"I have a new outlook now and am working with a new coach, Olof Skipper, who is not so much a swing coach but works on all parts of my game.

"I also started doing yoga before the tour school and that's been a tremendous help for my back, I haven't had any problems for the last four months and that's uncommon for me.

"I also moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in December, which is where I went to college for years and also means I can prepare better for tournaments because we have 300 days of sunshine a year.

"And I said at the start of the year I was only going to play 20 events because when I had my card for five years I was playing too much, chasing it too much and being without a win for five years was getting to me."

Hanell finished two groups ahead of Kennedy and practised yoga while he waited to see if the Australian could force a play-off.

But after birdies at the 13th, 15th and 16th drew him level, Kennedy bunkered his approach to the 18th and missed his par putt from six feet.

His earlier blunder had also come at the 18th at the conclusion of the delayed third round on Sunday morning.

The Australian thought he had been forced to take a penalty drop while taking relief from the cart path, and after eventually declaring his ball unplayable, returned to the tee to hit another ball, his third shot.

He then found the green and three-putted for a seven, which playing partner Spence duly marked on his card. However, thinking he had taken a penalty shot, Kennedy changed it to an eight and signed his card, and therefore had to accept the score of 80 when the error was spotted.

"My partner had marked down a seven but counting back I thought I had taken eight," said Kennedy, who also finished second in the Malaysian Open last month. "I thought one of the drops had been under penalty and so changed my score to an eight.

"In hindsight I should have done something different and taken more time but I can only learn from this and take the good things. I played great three out of four days and only a couple of holes hurt me."

Collated final totals (Gbr & Irl unless stated, Par 72):

((x) denotes amateurs)

284 Christopher Hanell (Swe) 73 67 73 71 (£67,153)

285 Brad Kennedy (Aus) 62 72 80 71, Steven Jeppesen (Swe) 69 70 70 76, Rob Rashell (USA) 69 67 76 73 (£30,044 each)

286 Sam Walker 69 72 75 70, Garry Houston 71 69 72 74 (£15,593 each)

287 Jamie Spence 66 67 80 74, Knud Storgaard (Den) 69 67 73 78, Markus Brier (Aut) 70 70 76 71, Graeme McDowell 73 69 72 73, John Mellor 71 73 72 71

288 Warren Bennett 72 69 71 76, Miguel Angel Martin (Spa) 71 72 70 75

289 Santiago Luna (Spa) 69 76 71 73, Craig Williams 70 73 72 74, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 72 69 76 72, Fernando Roca (Spa) 73 72 68 76, Paul Broadhurst 68 70 76 75, Bradley Dredge 69 73 74 73, Robert-Jan Derksen (Ned) 75 68 73 73, Mattias Nilsson (Swe) 70 74 73 72

290 Jesus Maria Arruti (Spa) 73 70 75 72, Euan Little 68 72 72 78, Sam Little 75 71 69 75

291 Jamie Elson 73 70 72 76, Mark Sanders 74 69 71 77, Fredrik Andersson (Swe) 72 71 73 75, David Dixon 68 73 74 76

292 Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 70 73 75 74, Shaun Webster 71 73 70 78, Philippe Lima (Fra) 70 73 74 75, Paul Eales 70 71 75 76

293 Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 73 69 80, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 70 75 74 74, Simon Wakefield 69 72 78 74, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 73 73 74 73, Robert Rock 72 71 74 76, Anthony Wall 69 71 76 77

294 David Drysdale 71 74 77 72, Fredrik Henge (Swe) 74 71 74 75, David Lynn 70 71 75 78, Magnus Persson Atlevi (Swe) 67 76 74 77, Matthew Morris 71 68 76 79, James Hepworth 71 70 75 78

295 Michael Kirk (Rsa) 69 75 75 76, Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 71 69 79 76, Massimo Florioli (Ita) 68 73 73 81, Matthew Cort 70 68 78 79, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 70 72 76 77

296 Van Phillips 76 70 72 78, Andreas Ljunggren (Swe) 71 72 71 82, Greig Hutcheon 72 73 75 76, Andrew Raitt 73 73 77 73, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 74 72 74 76

297 Raphael Pellicioli (Fra) 72 69 76 80, Chris Gane 71 70 78 78, Rolf Muntz (Ned) 72 69 74 82

298 Raul Ballesteros (Spa) 69 77 78 74, Alan McLean 73 70 76 79, Mattias Eliasson (Swe) 69 73 78 78, Daniel Gaunt (Aus) 71 73 74 80

299 Jeppe Huldahl (Den) 69 76 78 76, Iain Pyman 70 72 79 78

300 Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 70 72 77 81, Paul Streeter 67 77 82 74, Antonio Sobrinho (Por) 73 71 76 80

301 Wayne Westner (Rsa) 70 76 76 79, Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 71 71 80 79, Mikael Lundberg (Swe) 73 71 74 83

305 Marc Farry (Fra) 71 75 79 80, Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 77 69 82 77

306 Gustavo Rojas (Arg) 70 76 81 79

307 Titch Moore (Rsa) 74 71 83 79

308 Fredrik Widmark (Swe) 73 73 82 80

309 Johan Kok (Rsa) 70 71 79 89