(CNN) -- England's Luke Donald beat new world number one Martin Kaymer by 3&2 to win the snow-hit WGC-Accenture Match Play in Arizona Sunday.
Freezing overnight conditions and the unexpected snowfall struck the Dove Mountain course ahead of the 18-hole final, but once it begun it was Donald who warmed to his task from the start.
He pulled three clear by the fifth, play briefly held up by a hailstorm which left the players sheltering for cover, and was never headed.
But Germany's Kaymer hit back when Donald three-putted the short sixth and a birdie on the par-5 eighth saw the gap cut to just one hole.
PGA champion Kaymer drew level as Donald made a hash of the ninth, finding the desert rough with his second, but that was as close as he got to victory.
Donald took the lead again with a birdie on the long 11th, extended it at the next as Kaymer bogeyed and went three-up with a further birdie on the 15th. CNN
