DROITWICH golfer, John Bickerton and Hereford's David Park both won £11,050 with three-under-par totals of 285 at the Victor Chandler British Masters at Woburn.

The local pair finished tied 27th, along with Hereford's David Park and Colin Montgomerie.

Bickerton fired in 14 birdies in his rounds of 69, 73, 72 and 71 and now stands at 31st in the Ryder Cup points table with £159,720.

Burghill Valley Golf Club member Park, aged 26, followed an opening round of 72 with three 71s to record his best finish since finishing equal 19th at the Algarve Open.

Jeremy Robinson from the Vale Golf and Country Club, near Evesham, picked up £3,352 after finishing five shots further back in joint 57th place on 290.

Robinson, 35, who lost his full Tour card last year, shot 72, 72 and 71 before a final round of 75 dropped him down the leaderboard.

Frenchman Thomas Levet holed an eight-foot birdie at the third extra hole to win a four-man play-off and capture the £208,330 first prize.

Levet, whose only previous success in 255 tour events was at the 1998 Cannes Open when he was not even a member of the circuit, had finished level with England's David Howell and Swedes Robert Karlsson and Mathias Gronberg on the 14 under par total of 274.

Howell and Karlsson, the two who had been clear of the field with a round to go, crashed out with bogeys on the first play-off hole.

Levet could have finished it off there, but missed from five feet. Undeterred, however, he stayed alive with an eight-footer on the next -- again the 459-yard 18th -- and then repeated the trick when he and Gronberg went to the 176-yard 17th.

The £208,330 first prize was more than four times Levet's previous biggest cheque and on grabbing the title he went on a hand-smacking run around the gallery reminiscent of the one done by Hale Irwin at the 1991 US Open.

Clearly overjoyed, he afterwards revealed the secret of his success - an Irish coin he had found on the ground.

"I had the luck of the Irish," he said. "The pressure in a play-off is unbelievable, but I've been in seven in my career and I've only ever lost one."

It was the first four-man play-off on the European tour since the 1993 Honda Open in Germany.

Levet, 125/1 at the start of the week and 50/1 when he set off in the last round four behind Howell, climbs from 63rd in the Ryder Cup standings to 13th.