Johan Edfors was the victor at Loch Lomond with a third European Tour win of the season that sent him leapfrogging up the rankings.

But the biggest loser after a day of drama at yesterday's Barclays Scottish Open was Worcestershire's John Bicker-ton, who found himself bounced out of his place in Europe's Ryder Cup top ten.

It was only a fortnight ago that Bickerton surprisingly made it into the coveted Ryder Cup placings, thanks to his victory in the French Open. But, in the wake of him missing the cut in Scotland on Friday evening, he is no longer an automatic pick, seven weeks away from the squad's final announcement.

The automatic ten picks for Ian Woosnam's squad in September are to be made up of Europe's five best-placed players in the world rankings, as well as the five best-placed in the European rankings not already accounted for.

Bickerton's win in Paris put him in European slot No 5, behind fellow Midlander Paul Broadhurst, who is third on the Europe list.

But it was Luke Donald's finish at Loch Lomond in joint second on 11 under - two shots adrift of Edfors after shooting a final-round 66 - that has caused the biggest shake-up.

Donald has overtaken fellow Englishman Paul Casey in the world rankings, meaning that Casey would qualify instead for the team by his place in Europe's top five.

That has dropped Broad-hurst to fourth (or ninth place overall) and Bickerton out of the Europe top five, down to seventh (12th overall) behind Edfors, who has shot up to 11th overall. It is an immensely complicated business caused by the new system of qualifying for the European team loaded towards players like Donald and Sergio Garcia who play chiefly in America and not on the European Tour - Europe's Order of Merit having been the previous sole criterion for picking the top ten automatic invites.

At least, if Edfors does make the team, he will not be short of bottle.

Little known at the start of this year but having hit the headlines thanks to his win at The Belfry in May, he needed a sparkling final round at Loch Lomond to stand any chance.

But the 30-year-old Swede simply went out and shot it, his wonderful eight-under-par 63 helping him charge through a congested field to win in the end in comparative comfort.

A spectacular run of nine birdies in 14 holes, six of them in a sizzling outward half of 30, catapulted him to the top of the leaderboard early in the final round and that's where he stayed.

Darren Clarke and Thomas Bjorn, who Edfors also left standing to win the Quinn British Masters at The Belfry, started the day six shots ahead. But, playing in the final group, they faltered to shoot a one-over 72 to finish three adrift.

Finishing some two hours before Clarke and Bjorn, he said: "It was a tough wait. "But, although I shot 74 on Saturday, I knew I had played well on Thursday and Friday so I knew the game was there. And I said to myself 'If you can make nine birdies on Thursday, you can do it again'".

Edfors was £400,000 better off last night, as well as being on course for even greater riches. But maybe an even greater prize, the last available European qualifying spot for this week's Open Championship at Royal Liverpool, went to Argentina's Andres Romero, who tied with Donald and Charl Schwartzel for second.

As for the pair of Midlanders still at Loch Lomond, Broadhurst's £10,000 pay cheque in tieing 47th could not stop him dropping a place in those Ryder Cup rankings.

On a course he admits he has never felt at home on, Broadhurst only ever looked like challenge very briefly on Saturday morning.

The Ryder Cup hopeful quickly moved to four under with birdies at the first and third. But he gave those shots back with bogeys at four and seven. Although he came home in 34 thanks to a birdie at the 14th, at three under on Saturday evening, that left him well out of it. He fell away yesterday with a two-over 73 to finish on one-under 283.

The low point of his round was his start to the back nine, when he dropped a shot at ten, then ran up an extraordinary triple-bogey six at the short 11th.

Just a shot behind Broad-hurst was his Atherstone colleague Steve Webster.

Having scraped into the final two rounds by just a shot thanks to four birdies in his last six holes on Friday lunchtime, Webster maintained that hot streak when he started with three more birdies early on Saturday morning.

But he then bogeyed the fourth and dropped another shot at the short 11th. Although he got back to two under for his round with another birdie at the long 13th, two more bogeys at 16 and 17 brought him back to level for the round. He was one shot worse off yesterday, shooting a one-over 72 to finish on level par for the tournament, tied for 54th.

Any hope of a bigger pay-out than the £7,000 he did pocket ended very quickly with a double bogey seven at the third, followed by further dropped shots at four and five. But, after going out in 40, he did at least finish the week well, coming home in 32, thank to birdies at the par-three 11th, the long 13th, for the third day in a row, and the 18th.