Notes: NOTES:The European Tour travels to Switzerland this week for the Omega EuropeanMasters. Four of the top 40 players in the world are in the field this week --Edoardo Molinari (15), British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (21), CharlSchwartzel (33) and Miguel Angel Jimenez (38). Molinari won last week at theJohnnie Walker Championship at Gleneagles and was a captain's pick for theEuropean Ryder Cup team. Jimenez will also be on that team.Two-time British Open winner Greg Norman is expected to play this week for thefirst time in 2010. He has not played since the Wal-Mart First Tee Open on theChampions Tour exactly one year ago. The last time Norman played on theEuropean Tour was at the 2009 British Open, where he missed the cut.Last year, Alexander Noren carded weekend rounds of 63-66 to collect his firstEuropean Tour title at this event. Noren completed the event at 20-under-par264 for a two-stroke victory over 2006 champion Bradley Dredge.Noren was in control throughout the front nine. He opened with back-to-backbirdies before tripping to a bogey on the third. He got up and down for birdieon the short par-four fifth, then birdied the seventh to move four clear ofDredge. At the eighth, Noren missed a short par putt, but he recovered thatstroke with a 22-foot birdie putt on the 10th at Crans-sur-Sierre. Dredge wasmaking his move, though. He birdied the first, then birdied No. 7 for thefourth straight day. Dredge chipped in for eagle on the par-five ninth beforemaking a five-foot birdie at 10. Heading to the 11th, Noren led by one, butDredge bladed a wedge from just off the 11th green and it rolled right intothe cup for birdie. Dredge found the trees right off the tee at 12 andscrambled to a bogey, which dropped him one back. Noren missed another shortpar putt on 13 to fall into a share of the lead at 17-under. However, Norentook control on the 14th. He birdied the 14th to regain the lead at 18-under.Noren then holed out for eagle from a greenside bunker on the par-five 15th tojump to 20-under. Dredge tried to keep pace, as he drained a six-footer forbirdie on 15, but both players parred the final three holes, as Noren won forthe first time on the European Tour. Noren will try to become the first back-to-back winner of this event since Seve Ballesteros captured two straight in1977-78.In 2008, Jean-Francois Lucquin birdied the second playoff hole to defeat RoryMcIlroy and win his first European Tour title. In 2007, Brett Rumford chippedin for a birdie at the first playoff hole to beat Phillip Archer. Rumford'schip-in birdie ended the first playoff at this event since Sven Struver beatPatrik Sjoland in extra holes in 1998. It was his third European Tour win, andfirst since the 2004 Nissan Irish Open.Dredge was the only player to fire four rounds in the 60s in 2006, as he wonby eight strokes over Francesco Molinari and Marcel Siem. He ended at 17-under-par 267 and collected his second tour win. Dredge claimed his first winat the 2003 Madeira Island Open.In 2005, Sergio Garcia opened with rounds of 66-65 and held on for a one-stroke win over Peter Gustafsson. Garcia closed with a three-under 68 to endthe tournament at 14-under-par 270 at Crans-sur-Sierre.Crans-sur-Sierre has hosted this event since 1939 with this edition being the64th held at this site. The course is the most used venue for a regularEuropean Tour event.Five players have won this event three times; Alex Ross, Auguste Boyer, DaiRees, Harold Henning and Ballesteros. There have been four wire-to-wirewinners since 1980, most recently in 2002 when Robert Karlsson won the title.This tournament has witnessed a number of scoring records in its distinguishedhistory. In 1978, Spain's Jose Maria Canizares became the first player toshoot 27 for nine holes. On his way to victory in 1996, Colin Montgomerieproduced the lowest 36 holes in tour history, shooting 124 (-18) in roundsthree and four to beat Sam Torrance by four shots. Anders Forsbrand's scoringin 1987 was even more remarkable when the Swede covered the last 54 holes in192 (-24) - breaking tour records for the lowest final 54 holes and the lowestfinal 54 in relation to par.Canadian Jerry Anderson etched his name into the record books with his wire-to-wire win in 1984. His 72-hole score of 27-under still stands as the lowesttotal to par and gave him his maiden victory. Montgomerie owns the record forthe lowest total score of 260 shot in 1996. One of the most spectacularfinishes ever seen on the European Tour took place in 1992 when Jamie Spencestarted the final round 10 behind. Courtesy of his last-day 60, it enabled himto defeat Forsbrand in a playoff to equal the biggest final-round comeback bya winner, first set by Neil Coles at the 1977 Tournament Players'Championship. Paul Lawrie also came from 10 back on the final day when he wonthe British Open Championship in 1999.The European Tour heads to the Netherlands next week for the KLM Open, whereSimon Dyson captured the title last year.08/31 16:31:23 ET