Golf: Golfing first in Europe

Denmark's Mianne Bagger has become the first transsexual to qualify for the women's European golf tour.

The 37-year-old, who was born a male but underwent sex change surgery in 1995, carded a fourth-round 77 at the Riva dei Tessali club in Taranto, Rome, to join 35 other players with full exemption for next year's tour.

Bagger, who grew up in Australia, finished on four-over 292 - seven strokes behind the qualifying school winner Miriam Nagl, of Germany.