LPGA star Kim Hyo-joo wins European Tour event at home

Kim Hyo-joo tees off during the final round of the Aramco Team Series tournament at New Korea Country Club in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Sunday, in this photo provided by Performance54. Yonhap

LPGA star Kim Hyo-joo won the very first Ladies European Tour (LET) tournament held on her home soil Sunday.

Kim shot a 10-under 206 at the weather-interrupted Aramco Team Series at New Korea Country Club in Goyang, on the northwestern outskirts of Seoul. Kim, world No. 12, shot a four-under 68 on Sunday to hold off eighth-ranked Charley Hull by three strokes for the wire-to-wire win.

This was the second leg of the Aramco Team Series, presented by the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund. It was also the first LET event taking place in Korea.

The second round of this three-round event was cut short by heavy rain on Saturday, forcing players to complete their middle round early Sunday before playing the final round. At six-under through 36 holes, Kim held a two-stroke lead over Mariajo Uribe of Colombia entering the third round, with Hull sitting another shot back in third place.

Hull poured in five birdies on the front nine to cut Kim's lead to one, while Uribe dropped out of contention with bogeys on three of her first five holes.

Kim and Hull recorded pars on the first four holes of the back nine, before Kim gave herself some breathing room with a birdie at the 14th.

She then grabbed a three-stroke lead with another birdie at the 16th. Her consecutive birdie at the par-5 17th sealed the deal.

A bogey at the 18th was Kim's only blemish in the final round.

Kim's previous LET victory came in September 2014 at the Evian Championship, an LPGA major co-sanctioned by the LET.

The $1 million Aramco tournament also featured a team competition.

Team captains, seeded based on their world ranking positions, selected one additional player to join their team. Each side was then randomly assigned an amateur player and another professional player from the remaining pool.

The foursome led by Korean American veteran Danielle Kang won the team event at 23-under after 36 holes. They held off the team captained by Johanna Gustavsson of Sweden by two strokes.

The Aramco event used a "two-from-four" scoring system for the team competition over the first two days, meaning the two best scores on each hole counted for teams. (Yonhap)