Dutchwoman Christel Boeljon won the 2012 Gold Coast RACV Ladies Masters by one shot in dramatic fashion.

Starting the day three shots behind South Korean So Yeon Ryu, Boeljon held her nerve all day and critically on 18 when she sunk her 1.5m putt for the victory.

Boeljon posted a solid four under 68 to take the title over Ryu, who shot even par 72, and the fast finishing duo of Italian Diana Luna and South Korean Ha Neul Kim. All three completed their tournament on 20 under.

Sharing the lead with Ryu down the final stretch, the Dutchwoman was able to make two brilliant up and downs on holes 15 and 16 to importantly stay in the lead with the South Korean. As she headed up 18 there were four players all on 20 under, and Boeljon knew a birdie on the final hole would do it. After reaching the green in two and with Ryu in the greenside trap, Boeljon left her eagle putt 1.5 short but made the putt for victory.

Taiwan's Yani Tseng shot a closing 68 to win the Ladies Masters at the Royal Pines Resort and claimed the world No. 1 ranking from Korean Jiyai Shin.

Tseng, 22, who has played the Ladies Masters on Queensland's Gold Coast since she was a 16-year-old amateur, produced rounds of 67, 66, 63 and 68 against par of 72 to finish at 24 under par, four shots clear of Australia's Nikki Campbell and American Stacy Lewis.

Tseng's elevation to the top spot in the rankings is almost routine for to the Ladies Masters. Others to use the tournament as a springboard to No. 1 are Webb, Annika Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa.

The much anticipated battle between the undisputed champion of Australian Women's golf, Karrie Webb, and arguably her heir apparent and the defending champion of the ANZ Masters, Katherine Hull, appeared as if it might become a reality on day four of the event at Royal Pines on the Gold Coast. Webb would eventually run out the winner by a massive six shots over Hull and Korean Bo Mee Lee but she was pressed hard in the first 14 holes today before extinguishing the challenge of Hull and others and then waltzing to an emphatic victory, her 7th in the past 13 stagings of the event.

Australian Katherine Hull cruised to a five stroke victory at the ANZ Ladies Masters at RACV Royal Pines Resort in Australia on Sunday and confirmed her status as one of her country’s fastest rising sporting stars. Hull, who began the final round with a three stroke lead over compatriot Tamie Durdin, recorded a winning total of 16-under-par 272.

The 26-year old LPGA Tour regular fired rounds of 69, 67, 68 and 68 and became only the third Australian to win the tournament in its 20-year history, after Jane Crafter and Karrie Webb. “If anyone would have said to me that I would shoot four rounds in the 60s I would have been absolutely ecstatic,” said Hull, who collected a winner’s cheque for $90,000.

England’s Lisa Hall fired a six-under-par 66 on Sunday's third and final round to take a one stroke victory from second round leader Hyun Ju Shin, to post a winning total of 13-under-par 203.

Hall, playing in the penultimate three-ball, had posted her score as Shin stood on the 18th tee tied for the lead on 13 under.

Hoping for a play-off, Hall watched from the back of the 18th green as Shin, from South Korea, putted.

Shin had a 25 foot birdie chance for the title, but left it four feet short, and then missed the second putt, effectively handing Hall the title.

Karrie Webb made it six out of ten at the ANZ Ladies Masters when she added a final round of 68 to win by two over Shin Ji Yai of Korea.
Her 62 on Saturday and opening nine of 31 in the final round had her at 21 under and it essentially became a race for second as the darling of Royal Pines took absolute control.

The 16-year-old Korean teenager Amy Yang claimed victory in dramatic style at Royal Pines Resort with rounds of 69, 66, 70, 70, for a total of 13-under-par 275.

The youngster led the tournament for the final three rounds and eventually won in a gripping one-hole play-off against the 22-year-old American Catherine Cartwright, who recorded rounds of 70, 67, 70, 68, also for a 13-under-par 275 total.
With her victory the talented youngster became the first amateur to win a Ladies European Tour event in 22 years, since Gillian Stewart won the European Open at the Belfry in 1984. In only her second appearance in a professional golf event, Yang outplayed some of the best female players in the world and also became the only amateur to ever win a professional ladies event in Australia.

Current world number 1 Annika Sorenstam added a third Masters title to her 1995 and 2002 success by winning the 2004 Masters in style with a weekend total of 130 (-14) with scores of 65 & 65.

One of the greatest women players of all time and winner of more than 50 Tournaments on the US and European Tours, including the British and US Opens, Davies won the Masters back to back in 1993/1994 and again in 2003. Laura became the second 3 time winner of the event in 2003 with a clutch par putt from 10 feet on the final hole to edge out Queensland's Karrie Webb and Rebecca Stevenson.

Canadian Gail Graham recorded her second professional victory with at one shot win over Karrie Webb at Royal Pines in 1997 when the Ladies Masters was played as a joint ALPG/USLPGA event. To date the only single time winner of the event.

A great player and ambassador for golf, Jane Crafter won in 1992 and 1996. Her second victory was one of the most thrilling in Masters History. With her in the final group were England’s Laura Davies and Sweden's Liselotte Neumann and all three had eagle putts at the 18th to overhaul Geddes who had finished at 18 under. While the other two missed, Crafter holed a putt from 14 metres that never looked in doubt.

Jane Geddes, former US Open and LPGA Champion, was the winner of the first two Ladies Masters contested at Palm Meadows in 1990/1991. Geddes was also runner up to Jane Crafter in 1996 and Annika Sorenstam in 1995.