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Spaniard Rafael Cabrera Bello was almost in a daze after an unbelievable round of 60 brought him his first European Tour title.

The 25-year-old, eight behind with a round to go at the Austrian Open in Vienna, beat England's Benn Barham by a shot - and even had a putt for a 59 on the final green.

Nobody has ever managed that on the circuit, but although the 30-footer for eagle missed, Cabrera Bello's tap-in proved to be the winning stroke when overnight leader Barham failed with his 18-foot birdie attempt.

Just the 13th player to shoot 60 - Darren Clarke has done it twice - he was also only the third to achieve it on the final day and win.

"It's just amazing - I played the best golf of my life and I can't believe it," said Cabrera Bello, who had missed eight of his previous 10 halfway cuts and had never scored lower than 64 on Tour.

"I was so far back I wasn't thinking about winning. I just tried to play a shot at a time and today it worked out really, really good."

A hat-trick of birdies from the third and then four in a row from the eighth brought him into the joint lead with Barham, who had been three clear of the field overnight.

The Kent golfer did not manage a single birdie in his first 10 holes, but responded each time when Cabrera Bello picked up further strokes on the 13th and 14th.

Barham then found himself two behind as the Canary Islander - fourth in the 2002 Spanish Open as a 17-year-old amateur - found the target again from 10 feet at the 16th and two-putted the par five last for a 20 under par aggregate.

Needing to win to secure his card for next season, Barham still had a good chance when he made a 12-footer on the 16th, but a drive into the rough at the last was a costly error.

Cabrera Bello, 74th on the money list after graduating from the Challenge Tour last year, earned £145,507, while Barham's £97,007 keeps him outside the top 115 and still in danger of a return to the qualifying school.

Ryder Cup Dane Soren Hansen finished third for the second week running, while England's Richard Bland returned a 66 to move into fourth spot.

Collated final round scores & totals

(Gbr & Irl unless stated, par 71):

264 Rafael Cabrera Bello (Spa) 71 67 66 60

265 Benn Barham 63 66 67 69

267 Soren Hansen (Den) 67 67 65 68

269 Richard Bland 68 70 65 66

270 Louis Oosthuizen (Rsa) 69 67 65 69

271 Richard Green (Aus) 65 66 69 71, Pablo Martin (Spa) 66 68 70 67, Simon Wakefield 68 70 67 66, Seve Benson 69 68 68 66

272 Damien McGrane 71 67 67 67, David Dixon 68 67 71 66, David Horsey 67 67 71 67, Pelle Edberg (Swe) 68 65 71 68

273 Brett Rumford (Aus) 64 71 68 70, Gary Murphy 68 67 72 66, Alex Cejka (Ger) 69 68 71 65

274 Jean-Baptiste Gonnet (Fra) 65 70 69 70, Chris Gaunt (Aus) 66 67 72 69, Joost Luiten (Ned) 67 67 76 64, Markus Brier (Aut) 68 67 69 70

275 David Drysdale 69 68 67 71, Michael Lorenzo-Vera (Fra) 66 69 70 70, Patrik Sjoland (Swe) 69 68 69 69, Marc Warren 68 68 71 68, Martin Erlandsson (Swe) 67 68 73 67

276 Marco Ruiz (Par) 70 68 70 68, Scott Drummond 64 68 72 72, David Lynn 67 68 72 69, Bradley Dredge 72 64 70 70

277 Alvaro Velasco (Spa) 66 74 69 68, Magnus A Carlsson (Swe) 67 68 72 70, David Howell 69 69 66 73, Mads Vibe-Hastrup (Den) 69 70 68 70, Phillip Archer 65 71 75 66, Inder Van Weerelt (Ned) 72 66 68 71, Ignacio Garrido (Spa) 71 68 69 69, Mark Foster 65 68 75 69, Ross McGowan 67 70 74 66

278 Matthew Cort 68 68 69 73, Klas Eriksson (Swe) 69 69 70 70, Steven O'Hara 69 71 74 64, Raphael Jacquelin (Fra) 67 71 70 70, Gary Lockerbie 68 71 71 68, Stephen Dodd 71 68 71 68, Paul Lawrie 68 70 71 69, Jean-Francois Lucquin (Fra) 70 69 71 68, Gregory Havret (Fra) 69 67 72 70, Thomas Levet (Fra) 68 70 70 70

279 Wil Besseling (Ned) 68 67 74 70, Alan McLean 72 67 72 68, Maarten Lafeber (Ned) 70 67 70 72, Marc Cayeux (Zim) 71 67 70 71

280 Callum Macaulay 66 74 68 72

281 Alexandre Rocha (Bra) 70 70 74 67, Richie Ramsay 72 68 72 69, Rafael Echenique (Arg) 69 70 71 71

282 Iain Pyman 70 65 71 76, Lee Slattery 67 73 70 72

283 Terry Pilkadaris (Aus) 71 69 69 74

284 Sam Walker 72 68 71 73

285 Alessandro Tadini (Ita) 68 70 72 75

286 Birgir Hafthorsson (Ice) 73 66 73 74, Cesar Monasterio (Arg) 71 68 73 74

287 Ulrich Van Den Berg (Rsa) 72 68 72 75

288 Jarmo Sandelin (Swe) 68 70 73 77

295 Lukas Nemecz (Aut) 71 68 82 74

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