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Australian Peter O'Malley, who staged the greatest finish in golf history at the 1992 Scottish Open, produced another brilliant late charge to win the Compass Group English Open at the Forest of Arden on Sunday.

O'Malley stopped Raphael Jacquelin making it two French wins in a row on the European Tour with a closing 66 highlighted by an eagle and four birdies in a seven-hole stretch around the turn.

With overnight leader Adam Scott managing only a 73 and England's Justin Rose, joint fourth with a round to go, crashing to a 79, it developed into a battle between the two.

And O'Malley won when Jacquelin, having holed a 30-foot putt on the 16th to draw level, bogeyed the last after coming out of sand to 10 feet and pushing the putt wide.

At Gleneagles nine years ago 35-year-old O'Malley played the last five holes in an unbelievable seven under par - eagle, birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle - to beat Colin Montgomerie by two.

"That little stretch today was similar sort of stuff," said the Bracknell-based player who won the £133,330 top prize. "I got on a roll and I needed to make a burst like that.

"The last six holes are pretty tough and I thought 12 under was a pretty good score. Luckily, I went one more.

"I've played the last six weeks and that's almost too much, but I'm glad I played this one."

O'Malley's spurt began with an eight-iron to eight feet on the 177-yard eighth, but it was his putter that did all the work on the back nine.

In went a 25-footer at the 10th, then a 15-footer at the next and when he holed again spectacularly from 60 feet for an eagle at the 12th it was game on.

For good measure he again found the target from 18 feet at the 448-yard 14th and now it was Jacquelin doing the chasing.

The 27-year-old from Lyon, with a best finish on third in his tour career, was two ahead after his outward 34 - four better than Scott and eight better than Rose - and when he sank a 30-footer at the 16th he became favourite again.

That was because he had the reachable 511-yard 17th to come, but when he managed only a par there, just missing from 22 feet, the task was a lot harder.

At the 1994 English Open Colin Montgomerie birdied the 209-yard last to beat Barry Lane by one.

The flag was in the same tough position back left and Jacquelin went for it, but came up short in the sand.

The resulting bogey cost him just under £45,000, but the £88,880 cheque was still easily his best since he turned pro six years ago.

Scott, the 20-year-old who had hoped to celebrate the completion of his first year as a professional with his second win, finished third and South African Jean Hugo was fourth.

As for those heading off to the US Open this week, Lee Westwood and defending English Open champion Darren Clarke did best, finishing joint fifth on seven under.

That was some effort from both of them.

Clarke opened with a 74 and Westwood with a 77.

For Rose, the last day was a nightmare. He double-bogeyed the fifth and eighth, both par threes, and bogeyed the two in between as well.

He finished only 26th when he was entertaining hopes even with a round to go of improving on his two runners-up finishes at the start of the year.

Spare a thought as well at the tail of the field for 35-year-old Scot Graham Rankin.

On Friday the former Walker Cup player, a tour rookie despite his age, had survived only his third halfway cut in 15 starts this year, but triple bogeys at both the 16th and 17th sent him tumbling down to 11 over par and made it another miserable week.

Shropshire's Jonathan Lomas finished a much healthier level par - and how he wishes he could play the 12th hole in the second round again.

He took a sextuple bogey 11 on it and therefore played the other 71 in six under.

Collated final totals in the Compass Group English Open at the Marriott Forest of Arden Hotel, Warwickshire (Gbr and Irl unless stated, par 72):

275 P O'Malley (Aus) 70 69 70 66 (£133,330)

276 R Jacquelin (Fra) 73 67 66 70 (£88,880)

277 A Scott (Aus) 67 70 67 73 (£50,080)

279 J Hugo (Rsa) 70 68 68 73 (£40,000)

281 S Webster 73 69 73 66, D Clarke 74 72 67 68, L Westwood 77 67 68 69, R Goosen (Rsa) 75 71 65 70

282 I Poulter 72 71 69 70

283 P McGinley 73 69 70 71

284 G Owen 77 70 66 71

285 J Berendt (Arg) 72 72 73 68, P Casey 73 72 72 68, D Lynn 74 70 70 71, M Scarpa (Ita) 70 69 74 72

286 I Garbutt 72 77 69 68, P Lawrie 70 77 69 70, R Chapman 75 70 69 72, J Robinson 75 67 71 73, A Forsyth 73 72 68 73, J Bickerton 79 70 64 73, R Russell 76 69 68 73

287 C Rocca (Ita) 69 73 73 72, A Wall 70 75 69 73, M Bernardini (Ita) 68 72 69 78

288 J Lomas 71 78 71 68, D Gilford 74 71 73 70, A Oldcorn 67 76 73 72, P Baker 77 68 71 72, F Cea (Spa) 72 74 70 72, S Dodd 72 70 73 73, J Rose 72 67 70 79

289 B Lane 74 74 72 69, T Dier (Ger) 73 71 73 72

290 A Hansen (Den) 77 71 75 67, P Price 74 75 70 71, S Gallacher 74 71 72 73, D Howell 69 76 72 73, D Edlund (Swe) 77 69 71 73

291 W Bennett 73 74 75 69, N Henning (Rsa) 73 71 74 73, DJ Russell 76 70 70 75, S Tinning (Den) 72 73 70 76

292 C Suneson (Spa) 75 73 75 69, N O'Hern (Aus) 73 76 72 71, B Davis 73 74 73 72, D Carter 74 73 73 72, D Higgins 76 73 71 72, M McNulty (Zim) 70 76 72 74, G Evans 74 69 72 77

293 J Rystrom (Swe) 71 75 74 73, M Pilkington 76 70 73 74, P Hanson (Swe) 74 71 73 75, P Mitchell 71 73 73 76

294 G Turner (Nzl) 72 75 75 72, G Orr 76 71 75 72, R Wessels (Rsa) 73 73 72 76

295 P Walton 75 72 76 72, S Lyle 77 72 74 72, P Quirici (Swi) 73 74 74 74, G Brand Jnr 76 73 71 75

297 W Riley (Aus) 78 71 74 74, H Otto (Rsa) 71 73 77 76, P Fowler (Aus) 73 71 74 79

298 P Broadhurst 76 73 77 72, B Dredge 72 76 74 76, M Farry (Fra) 74 66 81 77, G Emerson 73 74 74 77, S Leaney (Aus) 71 77 73 77, F Valera (Spa) 77 72 72 77

299 T Johnstone (Zim) 77 71 75 76, N Cheetham 76 71 75 77, A Marshall 74 74 74 77, G Rankin 72 73 74 80

300 Yeh Wei-tze (Tpe) 73 74 75 78

301 R Coles 75 72 77 77