Bang Shin-sil takes the crown at Dongbu Construction Koreit Championship

Bang Shin-sil poses with the Dongbu Construction Koreit Championship trophy after winning the event at Sangte Hill Iksan Country Club in Iksan, North Jeolla on Sunday. [NEWS1]

Bang Shin-sil won the Dongbu Construction Koreit Championship on Sunday with 43 points, claiming her second KLPGA title.

The Dongbu Championship at Sangte Hill Iksan Country Club in Iksan, North Jeolla was a tournament with a stableford format — a scoring system used in golf that involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole.

Unlike stroke play, where the aim is to have the lowest score, the golfer with the highest score wins the event — not by taking the most strokes, but by gaining set points for different scores. The tournament had a modified stableford system where an albatross equaled eight points, an eagle five, a birdie two, a par zero, a bogey minus one and a double bogey minus three.

Bang added 15 points on moving day and claimed the runner-up spot with 30, falling one behind then-frontrunner Hwang You-min with 31.

The 19-year-old snatched the frontrunner position from Hwang on the first hole in the last round, as she added two points with a birdie, while Hwang managed zero with a par.

Bang further solidified her position from that point, making three more birdies on the second, fourth and seventh holes.

By the time Bang completed the seventh hole, her score was 37 points — well above then-joint runners-up Hwang and Park Hyun-kyung with 30.

Bang did not stop there and carded three more birdies again on the 10th, 14th and 17th holes to make her score 43 and locked in her victory on the 17th hole, as runner-up Lee So-mi only took her score to 34 on the same hole.

Bang then made a par on the last hole and ended the tournament with 43, finishing nine points above Lee.

“I did not think about winning and just competed with the mindset that I have to complete each hole strong and that led to a good result,” Bang said after winning the event. “After claiming my first title, I wanted to do better. But the result did not turn out well and it almost made me insecure, but I did not give up and was able to secure my second title.”

Sunday’s victory is her career second title, having won her first title at the E1 Charity Open in May.

Defending champion Lee Ga-young tied for 34th after managing 21 points.

The KLPGA will continue next week with the Sangsangin-Hankyung TV Open teeing off at the Lakewood Country Club in Yangju, Gyeonggi on Thursday.

About one month of the 2023 KLPGA tour remains, with the SK Shields SK Telecom Championship scheduled as the last official tournament of the year in November.

BY PAIK JI-HWAN [paik.jihwan@joongang.co.kr]