Justin Rose's hopes of a triumphant return to Europe were dashed in dramatic fashion by Dane Anders Hansen at Wentworth.

With a 20-foot birdie putt at the first hole of a play-off 36-year-old Hansen won the European Tour's flagship BMW PGA Championship for the second time in six years.

Amazingly, he has never won any of his other 235 events - and in his first season on the US Tour this year has not had a single top-20 finish.

Rose, playing his first tournament in England for three years, had brought the biggest cheer of the day from the crowd when he played a brilliant pitch to two feet to match Hansen's closing birdie four in regulation play.

That meant they tied on the eight under par mark of 280 after a closing day of good, bad and some really ugly golf, with overnight leaders Paul Broadhurst and Ross Fisher incredibly shooting 80 and 84 respectively.

Rose then played the better approach when the pair returned to the 18th hole for sudden death but Hansen had the perfect pace and line on his putt and won the first prize of nearly £500,000 when the 26-year-old Englishman missed from 15 feet.

''This means a lot more than the first time,'' said Hansen.

''It's a fantastic feeling. The first time I was playing really good coming in, but a lot of things have happened since.

''I've not played great this year. I've just kept shooting myself in the foot. I've also missed my kids. I have family in Denmark and it's really hard being away from them.

''I'm disappointed it's taken five years to win again. And I never would have guessed that it would come here.''

For Rose it was yet another near-miss.

In the Masters at the start of April - that was his last start as he had more back trouble the following week - he was one behind Zach Johnson with two to play but double-bogeyed the penultimate hole and finished fifth.

''I guess it is disappointing,'' he stated. ''You are that close when you are in a play-off but it was over so quickly. He holed his putt and I missed mine.

''All in all, though, it's hard not to be pleased about playing so well at home in a tournament I really love and came to watch many times as a kid.''

Rose did have another double bogey, going out of bounds with his hooked drive at the ninth, but this time he came straight back with a birdie, as he did after bogeying the 15th.

Seaham's David Patterson is the new Durham County Champion, writes PAUL FRASER.

For the first time in 43 years Seaham Harbour boasts the county champion and it is only the sixth time in the competition's 99-year history the winner has hailed from the course.

And Patterson, only the second post-war Seaham golfer to win the prestigious event, did so in style as he carded a 288 to beat Durham City's Andrew Bell by one shot on the latter's home turf. It brought an end to a memorable week for Patterson, who qualified last weekend with a score three shots inferior to his closest competitor yesterday.

Two shots further back in third was Billingham's Robert Moon, Woodham's Lee McCavanagh and Tyneside's Ricky Lee - all on a four round 291.

But yesterday was all about Seaham's first county champion since Jack Sanderson secured the title in 1962 at Wearside Golf Club when he finished on 284.