Renato Paratore has won the British Masters in Newcastle, while Co Down's Jonathan Caldwell earned a top-ten finish.
Caldwell’s one-under-par round of 70, made up of four birdies, a bogey and a double bogey, saw him finish in a tie for eighth place, seven shots behind the Italian winner.
It was the Clandeboye golfer’s best performance on the European Tour, after qualifying from Q School in November.
The 36-year-old (below) had previously been on the Tour back in 2009 for a solitary season.
Paratore was aiming to become the first player to win a European Tour event without making a single bogey since Jesper Parnevik at the 1995 Scandinavian Masters.
However, his brilliant run of error-free golf finally came to an end on his 63rd hole, the difficult par-three ninth.
Paratore produced the perfect response to his first blemish with a birdie on the par-five 10th to move three shots clear, only to drop another shot on the 11th following a wayward approach.
He added another birdie on 17 however, to card a 69 and finish on 18 under, three shots clear of Danish 19-year-old Rasmus Hojgaard.
Paratore's one-shot overnight lead was wiped out by playing partner Justin Harding's birdie on the third, but the South African then completely mishit his tee shot on the next and came up 30 yards short of the green, from where he was unable to save par.
Paratore had three-putted the short third for par after a lucky bounce from thick rough saw his drive find the green, but he bounced back to hole from 20 feet on the fourth and extend his lead to two shots.
Harding, who finished 12th on his Masters debut at Augusta National last year, swiftly reduced the deficit with a birdie on the fifth, only to miss from two feet to match Paratore's birdie on the par-five seventh.
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Paratore's first blemish came on the difficult ninth, where tournament host Lee Westwood had earlier run up a quintuple-bogey eight, but he produced the perfect response to birdie the next to briefly move three shots clear.
Another bogey on the 11th gave the chasing pack hope, but they were unable to apply any pressure and Paratore made certain of victory with a birdie on the par-five 17th.
Harding finished alone in third after a closing 72, with the English trio of Andy Sullivan, Robert Rock and Dale Whitnell sharing fourth place on 13 under.
