KAHUKU, Hawaii (AP) – Paula Creamer won the LPGA Tour’s season-opening SBS Open on Saturday for her first victory since 2005, handling the whipping wind to hold off Julieta Granada by a stroke.

The 20-year-old Creamer closed with a 2-under 70 for a 9-under 207 total and earned $165,000 for her third LPGA Tour title. In 2005 as a rookie, she won two LPGA Tour titles and also took two tournaments in Japan.

Conditions were challenging at Turtle Bay’s oceanside Palmer Course, with occasional showers and tradewinds that shook the players’ pony tails and nerves.

Granada, who won the season-ending ADT Championship and helped give Paraguay its first Women’s World Cup title last month, shot a 69.

Karrie Webb closed with a 70 to finish third at 6 under. LPGA player of the year Lorena Ochoa, coming off a six-win season, was another stroke back along with Janice Moodie (72) and 18-year-old Morgan Pressel (74).

Granada holed a 15-foot birdie putt on the par-5 18th to tie Creamer for the lead at 8 under. But Creamer, playing in the final group, regained the lead by sinking a 40-foot birdie putt on No. 17 that went left, then veered to the right at the end.

She smiled, hopped twice and shook her fist as the gallery cheered. Granada, meanwhile, signed autographs as she waited for a possible playoff.

Creamer, however, safely reached the 18th green in three and two-putted for par from 15 feet for the victory. She smiled and chomped her putter.