Strange earns first European Tour win

Birdie bursts from Ryder Cup pair Darren Clarke and Robert Karlsson were not enough to stop Australian Scott Strange completing a wonderful wire-to-wire win in the Wales Open at Celtic Manor today.

The 31-year-old from Perth, never previously higher than 10th on European soil and ranked only 164th in the world, showed himself to be a front-runner of real substance on the new course built to stage the 2010 Ryder Cup.