Newsday (N.Y.): Matt Kuchar wins Match Play Championship

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- He was the prospect who became suspect, a golfer who lost his swing and his confidence. Now a decade after the fall, Matt Kuchar is back at the top.

Kuchar won the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship Sunday, defeating Hunter Mahan, 2 and 1, in a final played in winds and chill so severe at Dove Mountain Club above Tucson that both players wore ski caps and occasionally used heavy mittens to keep their hands warm.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Mahan beats McIlroy to win Match Play

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- Enthronement will have to wait. Hunter Mahan, who is down the scale of fame, Sunday kept Rory McIlroy from winning both the Accenture WGC Match Play Championship and climbing to the No. 1 world ranking.

Was there motivation because the fans early on were chanting for McIlroy, the Northern Irishman, instead of Mahan, an American?

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Newsday (N.Y.): Final four set for match play title

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

MARANA, Ariz. -- The glamour is one side of the draw, where Rory McIlroy will face Lee Westwood, with a place at the top of golf's world rankings a possibility for the winner. The national interest is on the other side, the American side.

The marathon called the WGC Accenture Match Play Championship has reached today's final two rounds at the Ritz-Carlton Club on Dove Mountain north of Tucson, semifinals in the morning,McIlroy against Westwood, and Hunter Mahan against Mark Wilson.

The final between the winners...

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Global Golf Post: Mahan's Sunday Morning Mess

By Art Spander
For GlobalGolfPost.com

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA — Hunter Mahan went to sleep on an eagle Saturday night at the Farmers Open and woke up to a double-bogey Sunday morning. He was awake, wasn't he?

A great finish to round three, a three on the par-5 18th at Torrey Pines, tied him for second and put him in the final group with Phil Mickelson and Bill Haas.

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RealClearSports: Mahan Doesn't Deserve All the Blame

By Art Spander
For RealClearSports.com

NEWPORT, Wales -- It's time to stop knocking Hunter Mahan. He didn't lose the Ryder Cup, the U.S. team lost it. He didn't lose the Ryder Cup, the Europeans won it.

He wasn't going to beat Graeme McDowell down the stretch. Graeme McDowell wouldn't let him.

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