Dubai: Feng Shanshan came into the the 500,000 euros Dubai Ladies Masters as the highest ranked player in the field and she proved her credentials with an emphatic five-shot victory in the season-ending championship of the Ladies European Tour.
At the par-72 Majlis course of Emirates Golf Club, the world No.6 produced her worst round of the tournament - a three-under par 69 - but that was good enough to beat the second placed Dewi Claire Schreefel of Netherlands.
Feng’s four-day tally of 21-under par 267 was the lowest in the history of the tournament, beating the previous mark of 18-under par by Annika Sorenstam in 2006 and In Kyung-Kim in 2009.
Schreefel, who shot a tournament record 63 yesterday, closed with a 69 for second place at 16-under par 272, while Becky Brewerton of Wales moved to tied third place along with Germany’s Caroline Masson (71) on 12-under-par 276 with the day’s lowest round of 65.
Masson also lost out on winning the Ladies European Tour Order of Merit crown.
She needed to finish second after Spain’s Carlota Ciganda closed the tournament with a final-round 68, which gave her a tied 10th place finish.
In the end, Ciganda emulated Laura Davies’ 27-year-old feat of winning the Order of Merit in her rookie year with earnings of 251,290 euros.
Masson was second at 241,831 euros, while Feng moved to third place at 202,147 euros. AFP
