KAHUKU — Hawai'i's Michelle Wie had a three-shot advantage with eight holes to go in today's final round of the SBS Open at Turtle Bay, but could not hold off Angela Stanford, who won her third tournament in seven starts.

Stanford birdied three straight holes on the back nine and fired a 2-under-par 70 to beat Wie (73) by three shots. Stanford's final total of 10-under 206 tied the tournament record set by previous champions Annika Sorenstam (2008) and Joo Mi Kim (2006) — despite extremely windy, and sometimes rainy, conditions throughout the event.

Stanford, 31, earned $180,000 for her seventh top-six finish in as many starts. Wie collected $110,288 in her first start as an LPGA member. She has won $927,000 overall in 48 LPGA events.

Wie, a Punahou graduate now in her sophomore year at Stanford, took a week off school to make the tour's season-opening event her "rookie" debut. Wie earned her playing privileges by placing sixth at December's Qualifying School.

This was Wie's fifth runnerup finish on tour - including two here — but her first since the 2006 Evian Ladies Masters, where she held a two-shot lead with seven holes to go. Her last victory remains the 2003 U.S. Women's Public Links Championship, when she was 13.

She was a shot behind Stanford after opening with a 66 Thursday. Wie and Stanford went into the final round tied at 8-under. Stanford seized the lead alone with birdie on the third hole today, but Wie matched it with a long birdie putt on the next hole.

As the gallery with them grew to more than 1,000, Wie moved into first alone when Stanford missed a short par putt on the eighth hole. It was Stanford's first bogey of the tournament.

Wie doubled her advantage with birdie on the next hole. Stanford, ranked eighth in the world, salvaged par there after hitting her drive into the trunk of a tree. She took a drop, got to the green in four and drained a long putt to make the turn down two.

Stanford's deficit was three when she bogeyed the next hole, but while she made a routine par on the 11th Wie ran into problems. Her drive faded into the weeds on the right. After a drop, her third shot rolled through the green and her chip back was short. She two-putted for double bogey and her advantage was down to one.

Stanford took care of that in a hurry, birdieing three in a row to get to 10-under, with a two-shot lead, after the 15th hole. Wie's only realistic chance at cutting into Stanford's lead came on the 16th hole, when she hit her approach within four feet, but her birdie putt lipped out.

Na Yeon Choi (69-212) and Angela Park (75-212) tied for third, six shots back.