Alex Noren will face England's Anthony Wall in the Aberdeen Asset Management Paul Lawrie Match Play final on Sunday as the Swede looks to win his second title on Scottish soil in as many months.
Noren, winner of the Scottish Open at Castle Stuart in July, made light work of overcoming compatriot Johan Carlsson 4&2 in the morning's quarter-finals at Archerfield before seeing off England's James Morrison 3&2 in the afternoon.
Wall, who has played 431 European Tour events since collecting the only win of his career in South Africa 16 years ago, chipped in for eagle to beat Haydn Porteous in the morning and edged out compatriot Oliver Fisher at the fourth extra hole in the afternoon.
Five successive birdies from the second had sent Noren four clear in his last-eight match and Carlsson never threatened to draw level.
The 33-year-old, a five-time winner on The European Tour, made a similarly hot start after lunch as an opening hat-trick of gains put him three up on Morrison.
A 10-footer for birdie at the seventh sent Noren four clear, and although Morrison won the ninth and 10th to halve the deficit, he failed to get up and down from a bunker at the 11th.
A birdie from 15 feet at the 12th kept Morrison interested, but Noren holed a 10-footer at the next to restore a three-up lead that he refused to relinquish on the way in.
"It feels amazing," Noren told the European Tour's official website. "I've never even been close in a match play event before, and it's pretty hard mentally these matches, but I like it."
Wall was never behind against Fisher, taking the seventh only to see his opponent level with a birdie from 20 feet on the next.
The 41-year-old immediately regained his advantage as Fisher paid for a wayward drive at the ninth, but Wall bogeyed the 17th and it was not until the 22nd hole that he got up and down from the rough to settle the tie.
Source: PA
