Retief Goosen cruised to a three-stroke victory in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond on Sunday - just four weeks after he won the US Open.

In a £1million double, the 32-year-old South African added the £366,660 to the £650,000 he collected in Tulsa by leading from start to finish yet again.

Five strokes clear with two holes to play, Goosen allowed himself the luxury of two closing bogeys just as he did in his play-off with Mark Brooks at the US Open.

He finished with a level par 71 for a 16 under par total of 268.

Dane Thomas Bjorn finished second for the second week running and Dubliner Paul McGinley shared third spot with Berkshire's Barry Lane, Australian Adam Scott and American John Daly.

For Daly it was his best finish since winning the Open at St Andrews in 1995.

McGinley had to be the most disappointed at the finish.

He was heading for joint second until he duffed a shot from just short of the green at the last and bogeyed.

It cost him over £86,000 - and the equivalent number of Ryder Cup points.

It was Lane's first top three finish for six years and his performance gave him one of 15 spots on offer for this week's Open championship.

McGinley said: "I lost my concentration on the last tee because we had to wait so long and for the third shot it was very wet where the ball was.

"But I can't be too disappointed. I played really well and that's more cup points and more experience for me.

"I'm disappointed about what happened at the last, but a lot of people have done that and I'm not going to dwell on the negatives."

Third place represented Daly's best performance since he won the 1995 Open at St Andrews and on the possibility of his challenging for another Open title next weekend he said: "That would be awesome.

"It's been a good week and it's very exciting. I'm more consistent now and I just need to find a way to get the ball in the hole because I can't hit it any better. I'm starting to believe in myself again."

Lane has not had a top three finish since 1995 either and came into the Scottish Open - the event he won back in 1988 - down in 150th spot in the Order of Merit.

He also did not have a place in the Open, but now the 41-year-old from Berkshire will be there after taking one of eight places offered at the tournament.

Seven others, including Ian Woosnam, won through to Lytham off a mini-order of merit which has been running since May.

Lane said: "My wife has been bashing me over the head recently telling me to start enjoying my golf again and that is what I've been doing."

Goosen resumed three ahead of Scott, but the Adelaide player - 21 on Monday - bogeyed the first and when Goosen birdied the second the gap was five.

After that the only battle was for second place. Sergio Garcia had been hoping to get involved in that, but was fiercely critical of the state of the greens as he managed only a 71 for six under and joint 14th place.

After missing from only two feet on the last the pre-tournament favourite referred to how good the greens are on the US Tour where he is now based and said: "They were so bad here.

"I hope we find some better ones at Lytham. Here I lost my confidence."

Colin Montgomerie, who was lying second after nine holes of his third round, double-bogeyed the first and bogeyed the second.

He closed with a 74 for joint 28th, but said: "Not to worry - I'll get it going next week."

In fact, the only player to concern Goosen was British amateur champion Michael Hoey.

Goosen arrived at the course, looked at a leaderboard and saw that the 22-year-old from Belfast had gone to the turn in 29.

"I thought he could shoot 60 and win," he said.

But in the event Hoey had a 64 for seven under and finished in a tie for 11th.

"Seeing his score I thought I probably needed to get to 20 under to make sure of a good win," added Goosen.

"I was surprised nobody closer to me made a run, but the greens were very tricky."

Lehman, winner of the last Lytham Open in 1996, had eight last-day birdies, but finished with a double-bogey six for a 68 and six under aggregate. He did not want to stop and talk afterwards.

Greg Norman had six bogeys and a double bogey in a back nine 43 for a 78 which matched the worst round of the day by Sandy Lyle. They are two former winners who will not be expecting great things this week.

Collated final round totals in the Scottish Open at Loch Lomond (Gbr and Irl unless stated, par 71):

268 R Goosen (Rsa) 62 69 66 71 (£366,660)

271 T Bjorn (Den) 68 67 69 67 (£244,440)

272 B Lane 70 65 69 68, P McGinley 68 67 67 70, J Daly (USA) 68 68 66 70, A Scott (Aus) 65 68 67 72 (£104,500)

273 D Clarke 69 67 68 69 (£66,000)

275 M Gronberg (Swe) 73 70 65 67, J Parnevik (Swe) 71 69 65 70

276 J Coceres (Arg) 69 72 69 66

277 (x) M Hoey 71 71 71 64, B Rumford (Aus) 73 65 71 68, G Owen 72 68 68 69

278 G Ogilvy (Aus) 69 73 69 67, T Lehman (USA) 70 66 74 68, D Lee 70 67 73 68, S Garcia (Spa) 69 69 69 71, F Jacobson (Swe) 69 70 68 71, S Hansen (Den) 72 71 64 71, N Fasth (Swe) 67 71 66 74

279 J Bickerton 72 69 71 67, I Poulter 69 72 71 67, P Lonard (Aus) 69 71 71 68, R Gonzalez (Arg) 74 69 68 68, A Hansen (Den) 69 71 70 69, S Dyson 69 73 68 69, JM Olazabal (Spa) 70 73 65 71

280 A Cabrera (Arg) 68 74 70 68, D Robertson 73 69 70 68, G Chalmers (Aus) 70 66 75 69, C Rodiles (Spn) 68 73 69 70, J Rystrom (Swe) 73 69 68 70, R Johnson (Swe) 73 70 67 70, S Webster 69 70 69 72, A Wall 67 70 70 73, C Montgomerie 70 67 69 74

281 J Singh (Ind) 71 71 70 69, J Rose 67 70 72 72, C Pettersson (Swe) 69 71 68 73, S Struver (Ger) 73 69 66 73

282 R Jacquelin (Fra) 70 67 76 69, P O'Malley (Aus) 72 71 69 70, N Faldo 70 73 69 70, D Carter 70 69 72 71, D Lynn 68 75 67 72, MA Jimenez (Spn) 70 72 68 72

283 W Bennett 71 68 75 69, J Senden (Aus) 69 72 73 69, C Gillies 69 69 72 73

284 C Cevaer (Fra) 70 73 73 68, T Levet (Fra) 72 67 72 73, J Moseley (Aus) 65 75 68 76

285 A Coltart 72 70 73 70, I Garbutt 68 74 72 71, E Simsek (Ger) 69 74 70 72, E Canonica (Ita) 71 70 71 73

286 M Campbell (Nzl) 71 68 74 73, G Orr 69 71 72 74

287 P Baker 72 69 73 73, D Howell 70 69 72 76

288 A Oldcorn 71 69 78 70, T Gogele (Ger) 68 70 78 72, D Borrego (Spa) 72 67 72 77

289 A McLardy (Rsa) 71 70 75 73, J Spence 73 70 72 74

290 S Scahill (Nzl) 73 69 75 73

291 G Norman (Aus) 68 71 74 78

292 M Mouland 70 67 78 77

294 S Lyle 72 70 74 78

295 B Dredge 73 69 76 77