Mexico's Lorena Ochoa claimed the inaugural HSBC Women's Champions golf tournament here Sunday by an incredible 11 shots.
Despite the intervention of torrential rain and thunder storms, the world number one carded a 20-under-par 268 at Tanah Merah Country Club's Garden Course to seal her first victory of the season and a 300,000 U.S. dollars first-place check.
Swedish Annika Sorenstam took the runners-up honors with 71 to end the tournament at nine-under-par 279, followed by Paula Creamer of the United States, who shot seven-under-par 281.
"It's a fantastic week," said Ochoa, added that "starting on Thursday, the first two days, pretty low rounds, and on the weekend I wasn't as good with the putter but I managed to shoot under par every day."
Ochoa started off hot despite a one-hour delay for torrential rain. She rolled in birdie putts from 20 and five feet on holes two and three.
Play was delayed twice more throughout the afternoon because of a combination of lightning, rain and unplayable course conditions, but Ochoa managed to escape unscathed.
She added a third birdie on the ninth hole and a fourth on hole16, a driveable par-4 where she got up-and-down from a greenside bunker.
Sorenstam and Creamer, number two and number five in the Rolex Rankings respectively, kept things interesting in the battle for second place.
Both winners on Tour this season, the pair dueled until the back nine where Sorenstam pulled away with birdies on holes 13 and16 to finish the day the week at 9-under-par 279. Creamer ended her stay in Singapore at seven-under-par 281.
China's Zhang Na, who was in her maiden season in the JLPGA Tour last year registered four wins, shot a three-under-par 69 to end at even-par 288 to dip to a tie for 14th place, surpassing her target of 20th place set before the tournament.
The tournament brought together nearly 80 champions from all the world's major women's tours, including the LPGA.
Source:Xinhua
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