CIGAR-SMOKING, wine-drinking Miguel Angel Jimenez achieved the biggest victory of his long career at Wentworth - and left England's Oliver Wilson the nearly man yet again.

The 44-year-old Spaniard, having holed in one earlier in the day, collected the record BMW PGA Championship first prize of nearly £600,000 with a two-putt birdie four on the second hole of a play-off.

This is my 20th season on Tour and it's a nice present,'' said Jimenez, who as a result sits proudly at the top of the Order of Merit and will almost certainly earn his third Ryder Cup cap in September.

Wilson, who would have headed the money list himself if he had triumphed, has now been a runner-up no fewer than seven times, including four this season, and the Mansfield 27-yearold has yet to taste success.

This one will hurt more than most. It was his third play-off loss and a fine bunker shot at the first play-off hole had given him a putt to win after Jimenez had three-putted from the back fringe, but his seven-footer lipped out.

Wilson however, later discovered he had at least won a place in next month's US Open.

Jimenez, who has had eight of his 15 Tour wins since he turned 40, said: It's great, fantastic.

Mentally I am very nice. At my age you just relax, enjoy yourself and that's the most important thing.'' He is now third in the Ryder Cup standings, and added: I think (captain) Nick Faldo will be pleased. I am very calm, very experienced and one thing is guaranteed - I am going to give it 120 per ccent.'' It was a tournament of extremes for Barnard Castle's Robert Dinwiddie, who followed his course record 63 on Friday with back-to-back 79s, to end on a disappointing 299. York's Simon Dyson finished 14 strokes better off on 285.

Paul McGinley was 13 under at at halfway - a tournament best - but he fell away and finished only joint tenth.