Swede Carl Pettersson achieved the biggest win of his golfing life in Ohio on Sunday night - and with it earned himself a place in the coming US Open and next month's Open.

Seven hours after compatriot Robert Karlsson lifted the Wales Open, Pettersson beat eight of the world's top 10 to the Memorial title at Muirfield Village. It earned him over a million dollars and takes him, like Karlsson, into the reckoning for a Ryder Cup debut.

Two ahead with a round to go the Gothenburg-born player looked as though he might wobble, but chipped in from the rough at the long 11th to stretch his advantage to three, then made a curling 10-footer for another birdie at the par-five 15th.

A bogey at the last did not matter. With a closing 71 and 12 under par total of 276 Pettersson finished two ahead of American Ryder Cup hopefuls Zach Johnson and Brett Wetterich and thus became the first-ever European to capture the event hosted by Jack Nicklaus.

The victory was the 28-year-old's second on the US Tour in eight months and because of that he does not have to go through 36 holes of US Open qualifying tomorrow.

The Open place at Hoylake is also his because he will move into the world's top 50 as a result of his performance. He started the week 51st.

Masters champion Phil Mickelson, fourth entering the closing 18 holes, mixed some miraculous shots with several sloppy ones and ended up tied for fourth with Australian Adam Scott and Brandt Jobe.

Jose Maria Olazabal finished 11th and Justin Rose - reinstated on Saturday after being disqualified the night before for walking off the course before play had officially been suspended - joint 14th.

Collated final round scores and totals in the the USPGA Tour Memorial

Tournament Presented by Morgan Stanley, Muirfield Village GC, Dublin, Ohio,

United States

(USA unless stated, par 72):

276 Carl Pettersson (Swe) 69 67 69 71

278 Zach Johnson 70 68 70 70, Brett Wetterich 69 69 73 67

279 Phil Mickelson 69 70 70 70, Adam Scott (Aus) 71 66 73 69, Brandt Jobe 70 68 74 67

280 Trevor Immelman (Rsa) 72 70 69 69, Vaughn Taylor 70 72 70 68, Woody Austin 71 69 67 73

281 Paul Azinger 73 71 70 67

282 Jose-Maria Olazabal (Spa) 74 69 71 68

283 Sean O'Hair 67 70 74 72, Stewart Cink 69 74 70 70

284 Justin Rose (Eng) 75 71 67 71, Tim Petrovic 74 68 72 70, Ted Purdy 69 75 69 71, Craig Parry (Aus) 69 72 73 70

286 Robert Gamez 70 74 68 74, Rodney Pampling (Aus) 72 73 66 75, Rory Sabbatini (Rsa) 74 68 71 73, Kirk Triplett 73 70 73 70, Bart Bryant 70 75 71 70, Paul Casey (Eng) 70 73 70 73, Sergio Garcia (Spa) 69 74 74 69, Jim Furyk 73 71 72 70, Tim Clark (Rsa) 69 69 75 73, Mark Brooks 70 71 79 66

287 Stuart Appleby (Aus) 69 71 74 73

288 Davis Love III 69 73 77 69, Jay Haas 72 71 72 73

289 Geoff Ogilvy (Aus) 70 72 74 73, Nick Price (Zim) 69 74 74 72, Ryan Moore 71 71 74 73

290 J J Henry 70 69 75 76, Shaun Micheel 71 69 75 75, Ian Poulter (Eng) 73 71 79 67, Bubba Watson 72 70 77 71

291 Vijay Singh (Fij) 74 71 72 74, Heath Slocum 74 71 74 72, Jason Bohn 73 72 74 72, Bob Tway 74 74 73 70

292 Mark Calcavecchia 71 71 79 71, Joey Sindelar 73 75 72 72, Mike Weir (Can) 71 71 74 76, Greg Owen (Eng) 70 75 70 77

293 Brad Faxon 73 72 74 74, Joe Durant 75 70 70 78, Duffy Waldorf 73 72 73 75, Billy Mayfair 70 72 78 73, David Howell (Eng) 69 70 83 71, Bo Van Pelt 70 72 73 78

294 Richard S Johnson (Swe) 73 71 73 77, Jonathan Kaye 74 73 71 76, Chris DiMarco 72 71 73 78, J.L. Lewis 74 74 72 74, Scott Verplank 73 75 74 72

295 Jerry Kelly 69 72 75 79, Brett Quigley 74 71 78 72, Jeff Sluman 76 72 76 71, Jeff Brehaut 71 75 75 74, Peter Lonard (Aus) 75 72 76 72

296 John Rollins 73 72 77 74, Retief Goosen (Rsa) 74 72 75 75, Charl Schwartzel (Rsa) 71 75 80 70, KJ Choi (Kor) 71 76 73 76

297 Aaron Baddeley (Aus) 73 73 72 79, Ben Curtis 74 74 76 73

298 Ben Crane 73 70 76 79, Nathan Green (Aus) 74 72 78 74, Tim Herron 70 71 81 76, Ernie Els (Rsa) 74 70 73 81, Steve Flesch 66 72 85 75

299 Kevin Stadler 74 73 78 74

302 David Duval 71 76 73 82