American Anthony Kim was much too good for Australian Robert Allenby for the second time this month in Spain.
A five and four victory in the 36-hole semi-finals of the Volvo World Match Play Championship at Finca Cortesin came three weeks after the 24 year old from Los Angeles beat Allenby five and three at the Presidents Cup.
Kim then had to wait to discover whether it was England's Ross Fisher or Masters Tournament champion Angel Cabrera he faced in the final, a match in which the winner takes home €750,000 and the runner-up €450,000.
With five to play the Argentinian led by one, Fisher having just lost three holes in a row.
Kim and Allenby were level at the break and with 13 to play, but then Kim won five of the next seven, four of them with twos. Three were birdies and he also pitched in from 101 yards for an eagle two at the 27th.
Cabrera was three up after 13 but Fisher got back to level on the 18th and took the lead for the first time with an approach to four feet at the 25th.
The Argentinian should have got back on terms at the long next, but three-putted for par.
Fisher had 15 footers to win on both the 35th and 36th, but missed them both.On the par five last he chose to lay up with Cabrera in the rough, but the South American hit a fairway wood onto the green and two-putted for a birdie that sent them back to the same tee for sudden death.
