Nick Dougherty finished 2nd in the SAS Masters on Sunday for the second year running.

But there was quite a bit of drama for the StrokeAverage.com client just before the last round began.

Nick Dougherty, who is hoping a late charge will catapult him into the European Ryder Cup team, tweaked his back during the night, and during warm up in the gym, it got only worse.

Nick Dougherty said: "What a day. If my chiropractor had been here he might have told me to pull out, so I'm glad he wasn't.

"After all I've been through I was going to finish no matter what.

Nick Dougherty earned nearly €132,000 and although he stays 14th in the Ryder Cup race, he is now in much closer touch with just two Ryder Cup qualifying golf tournaments left.

The winner, Peter Hanson defied cold, wet and windy conditions to give Sweden their first home winner of the SAS Masters for ten years.

"It feels great, of course," Peter Hanson said. "It's been a long wait for me.

"I started pretty well, but then struggled on the back nine the same as yesterday."

From four clear with eight to go he double-bogeyed the 11th and bogeyed the 16th and 17th.

He remained one ahead moving to the last tee, however, and a cracking iron to the heart of the green proved the decisive shot after Pelle Edberg had just failed to hole from long range.

As for other Ryder Cup hopefuls, Martin Kaymer finished in joint 14th place after a closing 69 and is now little more than €250 behind tenth-placed Soren Hansen in the European Ryder Cup standings. Soren Hansen took the week off, as did ninth-placed Oliver Wilson.

StrokeAverage.com clients Oliver Fisher and Paul McGinley continued their consistent form with top-ten finishes and Open Championship Silver Medal winner, Chris Wood, began his career as a golf professional with an excellent 18th place finish.

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