England's Paul Broadhurst won his first European Tour event for a decade after an extraordinary finish to the Portuguese Open.

Broadhurst thought his chance had disappeared when he bogeyed the final hole after driving into a bush to the left of the fairway.

But in the group behind, long-time leaders Barry Lane and Paul Lawrie made a mess of the 17th, Lane taking a bogey five and former Open champion Lawrie a triple-bogey seven.

That still left Lane needing only to par the 18th to win, but the 44-year-old amazingly crashed to a quintuple-bogey nine after also driving into a bush.

Attempting to hack out on to the fairway, Lane hit his second shot far too hard across the fairway to within a foot of the out of bounds fence.

From there he hit his third shot out of bounds and after taking a penalty drop for an unplayable lie, hit his sixth shot short of the green.

Lawrie still had a 12-foot birdie putt to force a play-off but contrived to leave it short, leaving Broadhurst to claim the £144,000 first prize for his first victory since the 1995 French Open.

A closing 67 gave the 39-year-old a 13 under total of 271, one ahead of Lawrie with Portugal's Jose-Filipe Lima chipping in for a birdie on the last to claim third. Lane had to settle for fifth place on eight under par after a closing 72.

"I thought I needed to birdie the 16th and par the last two holes," revealed a stunned Broadhurst.

"I just wanted to set some sort of score but I was relying on Barry or Paul to make a mess of a hole somewhere along the way.

"When I drove into the bush on the 18th I thought that was it but as I was signing my card I saw Barry had driven into trouble. I still expected him to make a five and I was thinking about a play-off. You don't wish what happened to him on anyone. I've done it myself enough times."

Lane himself also won his first tournament for 10 years last season and was remarkably philosophical about his disastrous finish.

"My second shot came out beautifully and the next one hit a root in front of me and went out of bounds," said the former Ryder Cup player. "Then we didn't know how many shots I'd had!

"It's just one of those things. I played beautifully all week and hit one loose shot and get absolutely crucified, but that's golf."

Broadhurst, who was one of six players forced to complete their third rounds on Sunday due to Saturday's rain delays, began the final round two off the lead and looked out of contention after bogeys at the third and fifth.

But, while all the attention was focused on playing partners Lane and Lawrie in the final group, the Midlander picked up birdies at the sixth, seventh and ninth and four more on the back nine to keep in touch with the leaders.

Broadhurst, who won both his matches in the 1991 Ryder Cup at Kiawah Island, suffered a serious hand injury in Dubai which kept him out for almost the whole of 2000, and lost his card the following season.

"You keep plugging away hoping it's going to be your turn," added Broadhurst, who regained his playing rights in 2003 and finished 44th on the Order of Merit last year.

"My wife asked me last night 'Do you think you can win?' and I said probably not because of the way I was swinging it.

"When I've won before my game has been in top order but on Wednesday I was really struggling and went out there with no expectations. Since 2000 it's been a real rollercoaster but there have been signs the last couple of years that things are improving.

"To win is a big weight off my shoulders. I can plan the year properly now. For the last five or six years it's all been about getting my card."

Lawrie, who was seeking his first win since 2002 to improve his lowly world ranking of 346th, was also left to rue one poor shot - in his case the tee shot into trees on the 17th which led to a triple bogey seven.

"I played well and holed no putts at all and really should have been more ahead than I was," said the 36-year-old from Aberdeen, who would have lost his card last season but for his 10-year exemption for winning at Carnoustie in 1999.

"When you miss those kinds of chances it tends to catch up with you which is what happened. It was obviously not a good finish but overall it was a good week for me."

Collated scores & totals in final round of Estoril Open de Portugal Caixa Geral de Depositos, Oitavos Golf Club, Portugal:

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, Par 71)

(x) denotes amateurs

271 Paul Broadhurst 68 66 70 67 (£144,439)

272 Paul Lawrie 69 67 66 70 (£96,288)

273 Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 69 65 69 70 (£54,252)

274 Richard Sterne (Rsa) 71 67 70 66 (£43,332)

275 Barry Lane 68 67 68 72 (£36,746)

276 Stephen Dodd 68 69 70 69 (£30,332)

277 Gary Emerson 73 71 66 67 (£25,999)

279 Jamie Donaldson 75 68 72 64, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 72 65 74 68, Ian Garbutt 70 66 73 70, Stephen Scahill (Nzl) 67 70 72 70, Niclas Fasth (Swe) 70 71 68 70, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 66 71 71

280 Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano (Spa) 71 68 72 69

281 Peter Baker 70 71 71 69, Simon Hurd 71 69 71 70, Neil Cheetham 67 71 71 72, Jonathan Lomas 68 71 69 73

282 David Park 73 66 75 68, Steve Webster 71 71 75 65, Stuart Little 69 67 75 71, Marcel Siem (Ger) 72 67 72 71, Alastair Forsyth 69 69 69 75

283 Jean-Francois Remesy (Fra) 70 70 73 70, Roger Chapman 71 67 73 72, Fredrik Andersson Hed (Swe) 69 72 70 72, Leif Westerberg (Swe) 69 70 71 73

284 Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 71 70 73 71, Titch Moore (Rsa) 67 70 76 71, Nick Dougherty 72 67 74 71, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 71 69 73 71, Stuart Manley 72 71 68 73, Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 69 67 74 74

285 Simon Dyson 71 64 78 72, Kenneth Ferrie 71 71 74 69, David Gilford 71 67 74 73, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 70 71 71 73, Henrik Nystrom (Swe) 70 68 73 74, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 72 71 76 66, Gary Murphy 69 68 73 75

286 Raymond Russell 70 70 76 70, Damien McGrane 70 70 78 68, Mark Foster 73 70 76 67, Jan-Are Larsen (Nor) 74 69 76 67

287 Sam Little 72 68 74 73, Philip Archer 73 71 70 73, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 67 70 76 74, Hernan Rey (Arg) 77 66 75 69, David Griffiths 74 69 76 68, Peter Hanson (Swe) 74 70 76 67

288 Philip Golding 73 69 73 73, Johan Axgren (Swe) 72 70 73 73, Van Phillips 73 69 74 72, John Bickerton 71 72 73 72, Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 74 70 72 72, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 73 68 76 71, Garry Houston 72 72 75 69

289 Martin Maritz (Rsa) 76 66 74 73, Simon Wakefield 72 69 76 72, Peter Lawrie 72 70 77 70, Richard Bland 72 71 77 69

290 Bradley Dredge 73 69 76 72

291 Gabriel Canizares (Spa) 75 68 74 74, David Carter 72 71 75 73, Sam Torrance 73 71 74 73, Ben Mason 69 74 77 71, Matthew Blackey 73 71 76 71

292 Stephen Gallacher 70 68 80 74, Sven Struver (Ger) 72 72 77 71, Niki Zitny (Aut) 74 70 77 71, Johan Skold (Swe) 75 68 79 70

293 Fredrik Henge (Swe) 72 72 76 73, Markus Brier (Aut) 65 79 77 72

296 Andre Cruse (Rsa) 73 71 77 75

300 Sergio Ribeiro (Por) 74 70 81 75