Final round leaderboard:
-17 A Scott (Aus) -14 A Hansen (Den) -13 G McDowell (NIre), R Karlberg (Swe) -11 I Poulter (Eng) -10 MA Jimenez (Spa)

Scott (left) proved to strong for Poulter in Monday's session at Sentosa

Adam Scott won his third Singapore Open by three shots from Anders Hansen after a five-hour storm delay forced the European Tour event to run into Monday.

The 30-year-old, who was leading by three shots when darkness descended on Sunday, had 10 holes left to play.

When he resumed on Monday, bogeys on 10 and 14 rattled the Australian but he responded with birdies on 15 and 18 to win with a three-under-par 68.

Defending champion Ian Poulter faded to finish joint sixth after a 73.

The Englishman had started the day, three shots behind Scott, but he dropped a shot on the 12th and double-bogeyed the par-four 15th to finish six shots off the pace.

Scott, who won this title in 2005 and 2006, also looked to be struggling on Monday as he too dropped shots with three-putt bogeys on the 10th and 14th.

"I haven't been putting my best lately and the demons starting creeping in a little bit on the back nine," he said.

"But fortunately I squashed them and made a good putt on 15. That gave me a little buffer and calmed me down for the last three.

"The 15th was a huge hole. I hit the ball beautifully and I hit every shot where I needed it to be."

Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell posted a one-under 70 for a share of third place with Sweden's Rikard Karlberg (67).

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