Adam Scott survived a few anxious moments to win his fifth European Tour title in the Johnnie Walker Classic in Beijing.

Scott almost squandered a five-shot lead in the final round at Pine Valley before carding a closing 72 to secure the £208,000 first prize.

The 24-year-old Australian's 18-under-par-total gave him a three-shot victory over double US Open champion Retief Goosen, the South African recording a 70.

Sweden's Henrik Stenson, New Zealand's Michael Campbell and South Africa's Richard Sterne shared third on 13 under.

Colin Montgomerie, Ernie Els and Brett Rumford were a shot further back after closing rounds of 69.

Scott led from start to finish after an opening course-record 63, but what had looked a routine victory proved anything but on a final day affected by gusting winds.

After completing his delayed third round on Sunday morning with a double-bogey six, Scott also bogeyed the third hole of the final round and saw his lead slashed to two thanks to an early brace of birdies from Goosen.

A birdie at the fifth and Goosen bogey on the next briefly increased his lead to four, but further dropped shots at the seventh and ninth had the world number 10 looking decidedly nervous.

His lead was then cut to just one when he bogeyed the 10th but he crucially recovered his composure to play a superb approach to within four feet of the pin on the treacherous 12th for birdie.

A two-putt birdie on the par-five 13th followed and with Goosen failing to follow suit, Scott could breath easily again.

Collated scores and totals in final round of Johnnie Walker Classic, Pine Valley Resort, Beijing:

(Gbr&Irl unless stated, Par 72)

(x) denotes amateurs

270 Adam Scott (Aus) 63 66 69 72 (£208,330pds)

273 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 68 67 68 70 (£138,880)

275 Richard Sterne (Rsa) 68 66 70 71, Michael Campbell (Nzl) 70 65 68 72, Henrik Stenson (Swe) 70 67 66 72 (£64,583 each)

276 Ernie Els (Rsa) 71 67 69 69, Colin Montgomerie 68 70 69 69, Brett Rumford (Aus) 71 71 65 69 (£37,500 each)

277 Luke Donald 73 67 65 72 (£28,000)

278 Steven O'Hara 72 65 69 72, Santiago Luna (Spa) 70 70 66 72, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 67 71 67 73, Scott Drummond 69 71 65 73

279 David Park 70 68 67 74, Gary Rusnak (USA) 68 65 71 75

280 Simon Dyson 72 71 66 71, Terry Price (Aus) 73 66 70 71, Gregory Havret (Fra) 71 70 67 72, Thongchai Jaidee (Tha) 70 72 74 64

281 Uhno Park (Aus) 70 71 69 71, Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 71 70 66 74, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 71 67 68 75

282 Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 70 73 67 72, Gareth Paddison (Nzl) 71 68 72 71, Kenneth Ferrie 74 67 68 73, Anthony Wall 73 66 69 74, KJ Choi (Kor) 72 65 70 75, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 72 66 68 76, Prayad Marksaeng (Tha) 68 71 66 77

283 Thomas Bjorn (Den) 72 70 68 73, Paul Casey 72 68 70 73, Soren Hansen (Den) 70 69 71 73, David Bransdon (Aus) 69 70 71 73, Martin Doyle (Aus) 74 68 69 72, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 73 68 70 72, Steve Collins (Aus) 74 68 71 70, Peter Hanson (Swe) 70 65 73 75

284 Kim Felton (Aus) 71 70 69 74, Scott Gardiner (Aus) 72 67 71 74, Anders Hansen (Den) 72 70 71 71, Miles Tunnicliff 68 71 70 75, Peter Lawrie 69 71 69 75, Simon Wakefield 70 70 69 75, Richard Moir (Aus) 73 65 70 76, Christian Cevaer (Fra) 74 69 72 69, Ter-Chang Wang (Tpe) 68 72 75 69, Peter Senior (Aus) 72 71 73 68

285 Jose Manuel Lara (Spa) 72 69 69 75, Barry Lane 69 72 69 75, James Nitties (Aus) 72 69 70 74, Ricky Schmidt (Aus) 72 70 70 73, Wen-Ko Lin (Tpe) 71 70 66 78

286 Paul Lawrie 70 69 72 75, Wen-Chong Liang (Chn) 71 72 70 73, Adam Groom (Aus) 70 71 74 71, Simon Yates 70 71 71 74

287 Yuan-Chi Chen (Tpe) 67 71 74 75, Peter O'Malley (Aus) 68 74 71 74, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 74 69 72 72, Marcus Fraser (Aus) 71 70 71 75

288 Chawalit Plaphol (Tha) 66 71 72 79, Peter Fowler (Aus) 71 71 73 73

289 Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 71 70 77, Marcus Both (Aus) 73 69 71 76, Edward Loar (USA) 70 72 71 76, Anthony Kang (USA) 71 72 71 75, Wayne Perske (Aus) 74 68 72 75, Christopher Gray (Aus) 70 72 74 73, Lian-wei Zhang (Chn) 73 68 71 77 290 Richard Lee (Nzl) 71 70 70 79, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 71 71 71 77, Kurt Barnes (Aus) 73 70 71 76, Peter Hedblom (Swe) 73 69 72 76

292 Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 72 71 73 76

293 Marcus Cain (Aus) 74 68 72 79

294 Gary Simpson (Aus) 72 70 74 78