Dubai: Shanshan Feng won her second Omega Dubai Masters with a score of 19-under-par at Emirates Golf Club on Saturday, equalling Annika Sorenstam’s record of two wins here.

The 25-year-old Chinese, 2012 Dubai winner, shot 66, 67, 66, 70 (269) to finish five strokes clear of Spain’s Carlota Ciganda and six shots clear of third placed Caroline Masson of Germany.

Her only disappointment was falling two strokes short of her 2012 record event-winning score of 21-under-par, and missing out on Sorenstam’s best winning margin of six strokes from 2006.

But Shanshan, who finished her final round with three outward birdies to return with two bogeys and a birdie, vowed to return to the UAE next year and claim the record for most Dubai wins outright. “I would say I’m really happy that I’m able to win twice here,” she said. “When you put your name up there with Annika’s any time, I think it’s a good sign and a good feeling.

“I don’t know if Annika is going to come here again, but I’m going to keep coming, so maybe I will have the chance to take the record outright.”

On her final round, she said she regretted not breaking her 21-under par winning record. “I had a good week and after the first three days I was five shots ahead so I didn’t have much pressure on me coming into the final round. I was trying to break my record to get to 22 under, I didn’t do it but I still shot low, so I am happy.

“I knew I was five shots ahead but if somebody played really well and shot a really low score they still had a chance to catch me.

“So, I thought, okay, if I could get to 22 under par, then I don’t think anyone would catch up. So I went for 22, but of course I didn’t make it.”

Despite the seemingly insurmountable lead, she said she feared Ciganda would catch her at one stage. “When I had two holes left she [Ciganda] was only four behind and I had made two bogeys and was slipping down, but the 17th hole was important. I birdied and she bogeyed, so I pulled back the difference and had six shots between us heading into the last hole.”

World No.5 Shanshan said after finishing 2014 on a high her next target was to challenge South Korea’s Inbee Park for the World No.1 spot. “I want to be World No.1,” she said. “Inbee is the target that I want to catch up with, so that’s the target for me.

“I’m really happy to finish the season with a win and now I feel really comfortable going into the 2015 season.”