Luke Donald wins Match Play title easily

Luke Donald spoiled Martin Kaymer’s rise to No. 1 in the world by winning the Match Play Championship at Marana, Ariz., on Sunday with a performance so dominant he didn’t play the 18th hole all week.

Not even the snow and sleet could stop Donald.

On a bizarre final day in the high desert, which began with snow covering the fairways, Donald pulled ahead for good with a birdie on the par-five 11th and a par on the next hole, eventually closing out Kaymer on No. 16 for a 3-and-2 victory.

The consolation prize for Kaymer is reaching No. 1 in the world, which he assured by reaching the championship match.

It was Donald’s first win in the United States in five years, and it was only his second win worldwide since he captured the 2006 Honda Classic. The 33-year-old Englishman had done just about everything right except win.

He took care of that in a week like no other in the 13-year history of the Accenture Match Play Championship. Donald played only 89 holes in six matches and never trailed in any of them. In fact, he led after 81 of those holes.

Johnson Wagner won the Mayakoba Golf Classic for his second PGA Tour title, beating Spencer Levin with a par on the first hole of a playoff at Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Wagner, also the 2008 Houston Open winner, closed with a four-under 67 to match Levin at 17-under 267 on the El Camaleon course. Levin shot a 65.

Champions Tour player John Cook shot a 66 to finish third at 14 under.

Australia’s Karrie Webb used four consecutive birdies on the back nine to surge past Japan’s Chie Arimura for a one-shot victory in the HSBC Women’s Champions at Singapore.

The 36-year-old Webb finished with a three-under 69 for a 13-under 275 at Tanah Merah Country Club for her 37th LPGA tour win.

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Riesch edges Vonn in super-G

Maria Riesch of Germany beat Lindsey Vonn by one hundredth of a second to win a World Cup super-G race at Are, Sweden, and extend her overall lead over her American rival.

Julia Mancuso of the United States was 0.79 back in third place ahead of Austria’s Nicole Hosp.

Riesch won Friday’s super-combined and finished third in Saturday’s downhill, which Vonn won.

Juan Martin del Potro won his first title in his first final since winning the 2009 U.S. Open, beating Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic, 6-4, 6-4, at the Delray Beach championships in Florida.

Del Potro, on the comeback trail after missing most of last season with a wrist injury, looked fatigued throughout the match, but the Argentine willed himself to victory over the erratic Tipsarevic.

Philadelphia Phillies All-Star second baseman Chase Utley has patella tendinitis in his right knee and sat out his second straight game Sunday.

With less than a week to go before the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement expires, the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning’s agent say they have made progress on the quarterback’s new contract though neither appears to be rushing to finish the agreement.

Quick Enough defeated Amazombie by half a length to win Sunday’s $100,000 Sensational Star Handicap for California-breds at Santa Anita.

Ridden by Patrick Valenzuela, Quick Enough ran 6 1/2 furlongs on the turf in 1:13.52 and paid $10.60, $4.20 and $3.40.