Faldo - offered to sell his finish.

Nick Faldo offered to sell his stunning finish to the Open championship to the highest bidder.

Faldo birdied the treacherous 17th - where KJ Choi took a quintuple-bogey nine earlier - and then holed a 70-foot putt through the Valley of Sin for an eagle on the 18th to a deafening roar from the crowd at St Andrews.

It gave the three-time Open champion a closing round of 69 and six-under total of 282 just a day before he celebrates his 48th birthday.

"Do you think I could sell that finish to the leaders?" Faldo joked.

"I'll start with bids of £1million.

"That was unbelievable, a very unexpected surprise and I'm delighted. I've had a great week after being three over at one stage on day one.

"To make the cut and claw my way up the leaderboard I'm very happy."

Faldo eagled the 18th in the first round on his way to victory here in 1990, but admitted he had never finished birdie-eagle on the Old Course before.

"You kidding? That's as rare as a lobster thermidor!" he added. "You make a three on 17 once in a decade but three, two will never happen again in my life. I can guarantee that one.

"That was special, even I went mad. The crazy thing is as I walked behind the pin I thought 'I fancy this' and I haven't fancied a putt all week. I don't know how that happens.

"It's a beautiful birthday present, I think I'll have a bottle of bubbly on the plane."