Seven days after almost pulling off a shock Open victory, Andres Romero today went a long way to making amends by winning the Deutsche Bank Players' Championship in Hamburg.

Two clear with two to play at Carnoustie before missing the play-off by a single shot, Romero made no such mistake at a rain-soaked Gut Kaden to claim his first European Tour title.

The 26-year-old Argentinian carded a closing 70 for a 19 under par total of 269 and three-shot victory over England's Oliver Wilson and Denmark's Soren Hansen.

England's Zane Scotland, second overnight, struggled to a 76 for a share of 11th.

The first prize of £403,510 took Romero's earnings for the fortnight to more than £690,000 and booked his place in next week's WGC Bridgestone Invitational in Akron as well as securing a five-year European Tour exemption.

"I feel great, I didn't expect my first win to come this quick but I played great in the Open last week and coming here I was thinking maybe it could be my time," Romero said through an interpreter.

"I won a lot of tournaments in Argentina and one two years ago in Manchester on the Challenge Tour but this is a big tournament with great players.

"I felt so comfortable the first eight holes until the double bogey on the ninth. Then I started to play a little bit different on the back nine and it was a bit harder work."

Romero began the final round two shots clear of Scotland and was five clear after four birdies and a bogey in the first seven holes.

His attacking approach is always likely to lead him into trouble and it duly arrived on the ninth when he went for the island green from heavy rough but came up short in the water.

Unlike his double bogey on the 17th at Carnoustie, however, he still had plenty of time to recover and looked back in complete control when he birdied the 11th to move four clear again.

However, Wilson then birdied the 16th to cut the gap and it was down to two when Romero bogeyed the same hole 30 minutes later.

Two shots clear with two to play once more, Romero this time made no mistake and sealed victory in style with a long-range birdie on the 18th before being drenched in champagne by fellow Argentinian players and caddies.

Wilson was seven shots off the pace overnight but carded a superb 66, crucially saving par from 60 yards on the last after finding sand off the tee.

It was the 26-year-old's sixth tournament in a row - along with 36 holes in one day in Open qualifying at Sunningdale - and the former Walker Cup star admitted he was in need of a long holiday.

"I'm desperate for some sunshine, I can't take any more wind and rain," the Mansfield professional said. "Before the week I said I was going to take some time off so I put everything I had into this round.

"Yesterday I was pretty bad, thinking about what not to do rather than what I wanted to do, but today I stuck with it well and to get up and down on the last for par was very nice.

"I can't wait for my holiday and this makes it a lot better. I thought after taking a few weeks, I'd be nervous and be wanting to get back to playing, but after this it's made a me a bit more relaxed. It will be interesting to set some new goals for the rest of the season and see what happens."

In contrast Scotland will be off to Moscow on Monday for the Russian Open, the 25-year-old seeing his challenge for the title effectively ended on the seventh.

After finding such a bad lie in heavy rough off the tee he was unable to move his ball at the first attempt, Scotland's third shot still failed to reach the fairway and after eventually finding the green in five, he two-putted for a triple bogey seven.

Collated fourth round scores and totals

269 Andres Romero (Arg) 68 68 63 70 (£403,510)

272 Soren Hansen (Den) 72 70 66 64, Oliver Wilson 66 70 70 66 (£210,282 each)

274 Peter O'Malley (Aus) 69 72 68 65 (£121,053)

275 Peter Hanson (Swe) 69 70 68 68, Alexander Noren (Swe) 67 71 65 72 (£93,695 each)

276 Steve Webster 73 67 70 66, Charley Hoffman (USA) 68 72 67 69, Brett Wetterich (USA) 69 70 67 70, Lee Slattery 66 69 67 74

277 Johan Edfors (Swe) 71 70 69 67, Ross Fisher 69 72 68 68, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 78 65 66 68, Zane Scotland 67 68 66 76

278 Andrew McLardy (Rsa) 71 72 70 65, Anton Haig (Rsa) 69 69 72 68, Miguel Angel Jimenez (Spa) 69 68 71 70, Miles Tunnicliff 73 69 66 70, Benn Barham 69 70 68 71

279 Sam Walker 70 73 67 69, Peter Gustafsson (Swe) 72 68 69 70, Nick O'Hern (Aus) 69 71 68 71, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 71 72 65 71, John Bickerton 68 71 68 72, Robert Karlsson (Swe) 69 71 66 73

280 Niclas Fasth (Swe) 68 75 71 66, Richard Sterne (Rsa) 74 65 72 69, Ian Garbutt 71 69 71 69, Taichi Teshima (Jpn) 67 74 60 69, Wade Ormsby (Aus) 72 69 70 69, Carlos Rodiles (Spa) 67 72 71 70, David Lynn 68 73 69 70, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 70 73 67 70, Matthew Millar (Aus) 70 71 68 71, Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 70 72 67 71, Tino Schuster (Ger) 69 72 66 73

281 Peter Lawrie 72 69 70 70, Paul McGinley 72 70 69 70, Shiv Kapur (Ind) 71 67 70 73

282 Mikko Ilonen (Fin) 72 71 71 68, Christian Nilsson (Swe) 71 72 71 68, Jose-Filipe Lima (Por) 70 72 71 69, Alastair Forsyth 70 73 69 70, Anthony Wall 70 73 69 70, Andrew Tampion (Aus) 71 69 70 72, Rod Pampling (Aus) 71 69 70 72, Emanuele Canonica (Ita) 71 70 69 72, Kyron Sullivan 71 72 67 72, Steven O'Hara 69 70 70 73

283 Damien McGrane 69 71 72 71, Mark Foster 71 71 70 71, Bradley Dredge 69 69 73 71, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 71 72 67 73, David Frost (Rsa) 68 72 69 74, Ariel Canete (Arg) 70 71 66 76, Paul Casey 68 70 68 77

284 Ricardo Gonzalez (Arg) 67 76 70 71, Oliver Fisher 71 72 68 73

285 Marcel Siem (Ger) 71 69 75 70, Terry Price (Aus) 71 69 74 71, Gregory Bourdy (Fra) 72 69 71 73, David Griffiths 70 72 68 75

286 Phillip Price 74 69 73 70, Soren Kjeldsen (Den) 70 71 74 71, Gary Birch (Ger) 73 70 72 71, Stephen Gallacher 68 74 72 72, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 72 67 73 74

287 Thomas Levet (Fra) 70 71 73 73, Brett Rumford (Aus) 69 73 71 74, Garry Houston 72 70 71 74, Max Kramer (Ger) 71 72 70 74

288 Johan Axgren (Swe) 67 76 75 70, Daniel Vancsik (Arg) 70 73 74 71, Marc Warren 68 73 75 72, Mardan Mamat (Sin) 72 71 71 74

289 Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 69 74 71 75

290 Gary Murphy 70 73 73 74, Edward Rush 71 72 71 76

291 Sion Bebb 72 70 73 76