TWO-TIME Masters champion Bubba Watson won the WGC Match-Play Championship on Sunday, routing Kevin Kisner in the final after denying Justin Thomas the golf world number one ranking in the semifinals.

The 39-year-old American joined Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els as the only players with multiple major and WGC wins, his other WGC crown coming in China at the 2014 HSBC Champions.

Watson, the 35th seed, won the first five holes of the final and never looked back in taking his 11th U.S. PGA title and second of the year after winning last month at Riviera.

“I got off to a good start, really got it going,” Watson said. “There were only about four or five shots over the whole week where I lost my focus, where I didn’t have my concentration.”

(SD-Agencies)