Jim Furyk, beaten in a play-off at the Wachovia Championship a year ago, won the title in a play-off on Sunday night.

The American beat South African Trevor Immelman at the first extra hole after a dramatic climax to the final round at Quail Hollow in Charlotte.

Two clear with five to play and still one ahead with one hole remaining, Immelman found the green at the 478-yard 18th while Furyk was in the rough.

But the Cape Town golfer, seeking his first US Tour victory, three-putted, sending his first attempt 10 feet past the hole, and Furyk made an eight-footer to tie on the 12-under-par total of 276.

While that was happening Retief Goosen, the third member of the group, was in water no fewer than three times for a quintuple bogey nine that dropped him from third to joint 10th and cost him £140,000. Australian Adam Scott finished third instead.

When they returned to the same hole - the toughest on the course - Immelman drove into the right-hand rough and Furyk found a bunker.

But the former US Open champion was the one to save par, holing from four feet for a victory worth £600,000.

The last round tee-off times were brought forward five hours because of a bad weather forecast, but there was a hold-up of 105 minutes before the last few groups teed off and play then continued in heavy rain.

Furyk, one ahead of the two South Africans overnight, lost top spot when he bogeyed the third and Goosen made an 11-footer for birdie.

Immelman matched Goosen's birdie at the long fifth, then took advantage of his fellow countryman's drive into water on the par five seventh.

While Goosen could do no better than a bogey six Immelman was on in two and two-putted for birdie, then pitched to five feet on the next to double his advantage.

That went when he drove into trouble at the 421-yard 11th and double-bogeyed, but Goosen missed the fairway at the next and his bogey five dropped him alongside Furyk one behind.

Immelman was two clear once more thanks to a 13-footer on the short 13th, only for Furyk to hit his 132-yard approach to the 14th to four feet.

An eight-footer from the American at the 566-yard 15th brought them level - but only for a few moments. Immelman had pitched to six feet and made it for a matching birdie.

It was a bitterly disappointing last day for Britain's Justin Rose. After climbing into joint eighth spot with birdies at the second and third Rose crashed to 47th place with an 80 - his worst round since the 81 he had when leading the Masters at Augusta two years ago.

Rose was in some good company. Seven others failed to break 80, among them defending champion Vijay Singh, who triple-bogeyed the last hole for an 81.

That put him into a tie for 38th with Sergio Garcia, whose 75 means he has still to break par in a final round in America this year.

Masters champion Phil Mickelson managed only a 74 and at two over was just one ahead of Singh and Garcia.

Leading European was Jesper Parnevik, round in 71 for three under and 14th place.

Collated final-round scores and totals:

(USA unless stated, par 72):

276 Jim Furyk 68 69 68 71 (Won at the 1st extra hole),

Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 68 72 66 70

280 Adam Scott (Aus) 71 72 66 71

281 Bill Haas 68 72 71 70, Lucas Glover 69 73 67 72

282 Vaughn Taylor 70 70 71 71, Joey Sindelar 71 74 68 69, Bo Van Pelt 70 64 73 75, Steve Lowery 73 68 69 72

283 Retief Goosen (Rsa) 70 71 65 77, Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 71 71 70 71

284 Charles Warren 73 70 70 71, Shaun Micheel 70 70 68 76

285 Brett Quigley 74 68 69 74, Davis Love III 69 69 73 74, Ken Duke 72 71 70 72, Kevin Sutherland 71 71 70 73, Tim Clark (Rsa) 73 70 71 71, D.J. Trahan 72 70 71 72, Jesper Parnevik (Swe) 73 71 70 71

286 Nick Watney 72 73 71 70

287 John Senden (Aus) 71 73 69 74, David Duval 73 70 72 72, Jay Haas 75 71 65 76, Stephen Ames (Can) 71 73 71 72

288 David Branshaw 77 68 70 73, Joe Ogilvie 73 73 69 73, Stewart Cink 70 74 71 73, Shigeki Maruyama (Jpn) 72 71 67 78, Jason Gore 74 70 70 74

289 Jerry Kelly 73 70 69 77, J J Henry 73 67 71 78, Lee Janzen 72 72 72 73, Jason Bohn 71 73 73 72

290 Phil Mickelson 71 72 73 74, Ted Purdy 77 66 74 73, Tom Lehman 75 69 69 77

291 Charley Hoffman 72 73 72 74, Doug Barron 75 71 72 73, Will MacKenzie 72 73 75 71, Vijay Singh (Fij) 71 68 71 81, Bob Estes 73 72 73 73, Joe Durant 74 71 73 73, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 74 69 73 75, Ernie Els (Rsa) 71 71 75 74, Carl Pettersson (Swe) 71 74 75 71

292 Brad Faxon 72 73 76 71, Justin Rose (Eng) 70 74 68 80, Jeff Sluman 74 72 72 74, Mike Weir (Can) 73 71 72 76, Charles Howell III 74 71 73 74

293 Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 68 73 73 79, Olin Browne 71 74 72 76, Troy Matteson 72 69 75 77, Stuart Appleby (Aus) 72 67 74 80

294 Billy Andrade 69 73 78 74, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 75 71 72 76, Woody Austin 73 72 73 76

295 Robert Garrigus 70 74 71 80, Steve Flesch 74 71 74 76, Rocco Mediate 74 71 73 77, Tommy Armour III 74 70 77 74

296 Jay Williamson 75 71 74 76, Marco Dawson 72 73 72 79

297 Ben Crane 71 74 74 78, Arron Oberholser 75 66 75 81

298 Richard S Johnson (Swe) 74 72 77 75, Daniel Chopra (Swe) 72 74 75 77, Mark Calcavecchia 72 73 74 79, Craig Barlow 73 70 74 81, Steve Jones 78 66 77 77

301 Ian Leggatt (Can) 75 71 75 80

304 Wes Short jr. 77 69 77 81