Matt Kuchar finally put Hunter Mahan in a hole and then answered every challenge Sunday to win the Match Play Championship in Marana, Ariz.

Mahan had gone 169 holes over 11 matches without trailing in this wild tournament until Kuchar won the fourth hole of their championship match with a par, and Mahan never caught up. Kuchar took advantage of a series of miscues to build a 4-up lead at the turn, then held off a noble challenge by the defending champion.

The match ended when Mahan went from a tough lie in the bunker to a bush in the desert, and it took him four shots to reach the 17th green. Kuchar wound up winning, 2 and 1.

  • Inbee Park of South Korea took advantage of overnight leader Ariya Jutanugarn's triple bogey on the last hole to secure a one-stroke victory in the LPGA Thailand in Chonburi.

    Baseball

    In his first at-bat of spring training, New York Yankees slugger Curtis Granderson broke his right arm when he hit by a pitch from Toronto's J.A. Happ in the bottom of the first inning in Tampa, Fla., and is expected to be out until the first week of May. Granderson led New York with 43 homers last season.

  • Zack Greinke pitched
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    two clean innings in his Dodgers debut, and Los Angeles tied the Chicago White Sox 2-2 in a Cactus League game called after nine innings. Greinke signed a $147 million, six-year contract to join the Dodgers in the offseason.

    Ryu Hyun-jin also made his Dodgers debut, allowing a triple and getting a strikeout during one inning of work. Los Angeles signed Ryu to a $36 million, six-year deal in December, making him the first player to move straight from Korea's top league to the majors.

    Soccer

    Host Manchester City kept alive its slim Premier League title hopes, beating Chelsea 2-0 on second-half goals by Yaya Toure and Carlos Tevez. City is 12 points behind Manchester United.

  • Swansea City secured the first major trophy in its 101-year history by routing Bradford City 5-0 in English soccer's League Cup final.

    Miscellany

    Tina Maze of Slovenia clinched her first overall World Cup title, winning the super-combined in Meribel, France, for her eighth victory this season with nine races still to go.

  • Top 3-year-old Violence is off the Kentucky Derby trail after fracturing a bone in his right front leg.

    Bloomberg News contributed to this report.