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Woods closes out year with seven-stroke win Tiger Woods won the final golf tournament of the year Sunday, finishing with a 4-under-par 68 at the Target World Challenge in Thousand Oaks, Calif., and setting a record for the largest margin of victory, seven shots over Masters champion Zach Johnson.

Woods, who had not played since Sept. 30 at the Presidents Cup, won his tournament for the fourth time and became the first player to win in consecutive years.

Johnson closed with a 68.

Jim Furyk got within two shots after nine holes, but the tournament changed abruptly on the 10th. Woods holed a 12-foot birdie putt, and Furyk three-putted for bogey from 4 feet on a downhill putt.

Woods finished at 22-under 266, tying the tournament record first set by Davis Love III in 2000. He earned $1.35 million, which he will donate to his Tiger Woods Foundation. Johnson, shut out at his first Skins Game last month, earned $840,000 for second.

• Annika Sorenstam won the Dubai Ladies Masters by two strokes, her first victory since she won there in 2006. Sorenstam closed with 2-under 70 and finished at 10-under 278 at the season-ending tournament of the Ladies European Tour. Overnight leader Iben Tinning of Denmark had a double bogey at the last hole and finished with a 73, tying her for second with Laura Davies.

Cross-country victory is first for a U.S. woman Kikkan Randall became the first U.S. woman and second American to win a World Cup cross-country race when she beat world sprint champion Astrid Jacobsen of Norway in the final meters of a 1.2-kilometer freestyle in Demino, Russia.

Randall, of Anchorage, Alaska, is the first American to win a World Cup cross-country race since Bill Koch in 1983.

She finished in 2 minutes, 48.7 seconds -- 0.7 seconds ahead of Jacobsen. Natalia Korosteleva of Russia was third.

• Olympic slalom champion Anja Paerson of Sweden won a women's World Cup super-G in St. Moritz, Switzerland, for her second victory in 24 hours. She won the downhill on Saturday. Canada's Emily Brydon was second, her best career finish. Julia Mancuso lost half a second in the final interval but still posted the top American result, tying for 10th. U.S. teammate Lindsey Vonn placed 12th.

• Finland's Kalle Palander got his third career giant slalom victory on the Gran Risa course in Alta Badia, Italy. American Ted Ligety skied the fastest second run and finished fifth.

• Alexandr Zubkov of Russia drove his sled to victory in the four-man World Cup bobsled race in Lake Placid, N.Y. His two-run time of 1:48.79 was 0.05 seconds faster than the American sled piloted by Steven Holcomb of Park City, Utah.

Wake Forest takes title Zack Schilawski scored the winning goal in his return to his hometown, lifting Wake Forest to a 2-1 victory over Ohio State in the men's College Cup final in Cary, N.C.

Schilawski's goal broke a 1-1 tie in the 77th minute for the second-seeded Demon Deacons (22-2-2). Fifth-seeded Ohio State (17-4-5) was playing in the College Cup for the first time.

Swimming: Sweden set a world record of 1:24.19 in the men's 200-meter freestyle relay at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary.

Boxing: Australian Danny Green (25-3, 22 KOs) scored a unanimous decision over Stipe Drews for the Croatian's WBA light heavyweight title in Perth, Australia. Drews is 32-2.

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