Cabrera-Bello stuns Westwood

Two weeks after England's Robert Rock beat Tiger Woods and the world's top four in Abu Dhabi, the 27-year-old Canary Islander's four-under-par 68 gave him a one-stroke victory over Westwood and Scot Stephen Gallacher.

Westwood was one ahead with a round to go and two in front after he holed a long eagle putt at the second, but he was reeled in and Cabrera-Bello's nine-foot birdie putt on the 17th proved the difference in the end. He finished with an 18-under-par total of 270.

Westwood does have the small consolation, however, of taking the world number two spot back off fifth-placed Rory McIlroy - by 0.004 ranking points, who was joint leader at the halfway point.

Cabrera-Bello became the third Spanish winner of the title in a row after Miguel Angel Jimenez and Alvaro Quiros - Jimenez beat Westwood in a play-off - and he had to wait to see if it was good enough to put him into the 64-man Accenture World Match Play Championship in Arizona the week after next.

It was his second Tour win, the first coming with a record-equalling closing round of 60 in the Austrian Open three years ago.

In the windier conditions Cabrera-Bello went into the joint lead with a pitch to three feet on the second, but Westwood then drove just short of the green there and sank a 40-foot eagle putt to go two clear. Bogeying the fifth gave the chasing group hope and by the time Westwood made his first birdie on the long 13th he found himself part of a three-way tie.

Even that was a disappointment as he missed a 10-foot eagle chance after Gallacher had holed from nearly four times as far and, following his birdies at the 11th and 12th, it was Cabrera-Bello's nine-foot putt for another on the 17th that proved the decisive blow, Westwood missing from seven.

Joint halfway leader McIlroy resumed only two behind, but three-putted the first and gave himself too much to do after going in the water and double-bogeying the ninth.

The 22-year-old US Open champion did come home in a four-under 33, but it was German Marcel Siem who came fourth and McIlroy tied with Gallacher's compatriot Scott Jamieson, South African George Coetzee and Dane Soren Kjeldsen.