Mexico’s Lorena Ochoa completed a start to finish victory with a closing 68 in the HSBC Women’s Champions in Singapore.

Record prize money of £8.8m (€12.2m) will be on offer on the 2008 Ladies European Tour, it was announced today.

Trans-sexual Mianne Bagger makes her first appearance in Europe in tomorrow’s £250,000 Tenerife Open at Costa Adeje.