Miguel Angel Jimenez survived a late scare to win the Omega European Masters at Crans-sur-Sierre in Switzerland.

Ryder Cup team-mate Edoardo Molinari, last week's winner, came from six behind after 11 holes to trail by only one with three to play, but bogeyed the next.

Jimenez, salvaging a par on the short 16th after hitting a tree with his tee shot, birdied the next and with a closing par signed for a 67 and a 21-under-par total of 263. It was his third win of the year.

Molinari was runner-up and by finishing third his 17-year-old fellow Italian Matteo Manassero secured a European Tour card for himself in only six starts as a professional.

Three ahead overnight, Jimenez doubled that by going to the turn in 32 with birdies at the first, sixth, seventh and ninth. He did not have a bogey on the front nine all week.

But Molinari birdied the 12th and with another at the long 14th was back to only three behind as Jimenez, bunkered off the tee, went over the green for three and took six.

With the pendulum swinging his way Molinari then hit a marvellous six iron to two feet on the 516-yard next and made eagle to Jimenez's par.

Just a week earlier, of course, he stood two behind with three to play in Scotland and birdied them all, but this time he failed to get up and down from sand at the 16th and parred the last two.

England's Steve Webster, joint third with Manassero after 54 holes, fell back to joint ninth with a 73.