Woods claims his 40th title by winning match-play event

CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Tiger Woods went 25 holes before he finally took the lead Sunday, then roared past Davis Love III with key putts to win the Match Play Championship for the second straight year, 3 and 2.

Woods won for the 40th time on the PGA Tour in just his 149th start, the quickest anyone has reached that milestone. Jack Nicklaus played 221 events before he won his 40th tournament.

Woods earned $1.2 million, the biggest prize to date on the PGA Tour, and reminded everyone who's No. 1 in the world -- and who's the best when the world gets together.

He won for the eighth time in the 14 official World Golf Championships he has played.

Even more impressive is his back-to-back victories in the Accenture Match Play Championship, the most unpredictable format in golf because of the five 18-hole matches required to get to the finals.

His game wasn't sharp Sunday, but Love helped make sure that wasn't a factor by missing a half-dozen putts inside 10 feet and failing to answer once Woods finally took the lead.

PGA Tour

TUCSON, Ariz. -- Heath Slocum won the showdown between two PGA Tour non-winners, parring the 18th hole for a one-shot victory over Aaron Baddeley at the Chrysler Classic of Tucson.

The 30-year-old Slocum shot a 7-under-par 65 for a total of 22-under 266 -- the lowest since 1988 when David Frost won at Tucson National with the same total.

Slocum earned his first title in 78 starts when the 22-year-old Baddeley three-putted the 18th green, missing a 5-foot par putt that would have forced a playoff. The bogey -- Baddeley's first since the second round -- left him with a 66.

PGA European Tour

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Australian Gavin Coles drained an 80-foot putt on the final hole to cap a 4-under 68 and win the New Zealand PGA championship by three strokes.

LPGA European Tour

GOLD COAST, Australia -- Annika Sorenstam, playing in her first tournament of the year, shot a second consecutive 65 to win the ANZ Ladies Masters by four strokes. Sorenstam finished with a 19-under 269 in winning the tournament for the third time.

Second-round leader Karen Stupples of England, who trailed Sorenstam by a shot coming in, finished four shots back in second after a 68.

-- From wire reports