Sweden’s Rikard Karlberg is the European Tour’s newest champion in capturing last week’s 72nd Italian Open.

However the Swede is also the Tour’s equal top-ranked ‘Tortoise’ after being fined £2,000 for slow play last week at Monza.

It means Karlberg who won £181,054 in defeating Martin Kaymer in a play-off has had to hand back £2,000 to the Tour.

Karlberg was fined for slow play during the first round at Monza and now joins Paul Peterson and Danny Willett atop of the Tour’s – ‘Summary of Individual Bad Times 2015’.

American Paul Peterson was fined £2,000 for slow play at last fortnight’s KLM Open while Willlett was fined the same amount for slow play during the first round of the Masters.

Rikard Karlberg in happier times – winning last week’s 72nd Italian Open.