Golf: Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama, the hottest player in world golf over the past two months, survived a shaky back nine to clinch his fourth win in five starts with a two-stroke victory at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas on Sunday. While tournament host Tiger Woods delivered the good, bad and ugly as he finished 14 shots back in his much anticipated return to competition, Matsuyama ended a dominant week with his worst round, a one-over 73 at the Albany course on the island of New Providence. British Open champion Henrik Stenson, of Sweden, eagled the par-five ninth on the way to a 68 and second place, three ahead of Americans Dustin Johnson, Rickie Fowler and Matt Kuchar.

Winter Sport: US skeleton athletes are considering boycotting the World Championships in Sochi next year in protest at the Russian doping scandal and how it has been handled, the New York Times reported yesterday. The newspaper said the athletes had circulated memos calling for a boycott of the bobsled and skeleton championships in the southern Russian resort, which hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics. Russia finished top of the medals table on that occasion but a WADA-commissioned report this year described how positive samples from athletes who had cheated were smuggled out of a lab through a hole drilled in the wall, and then replaced with clean samples.

Baseball: Former Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig and long-time MLB executive John Schuerholz were elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. The selections were made by the veterans committee at Oxon Hill, Maryland, ahead of baseball’s winter meetings. Selig and Schuerholz will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in New York on July 30. Selig, 82, served as commissioner from 1992 to 2015 and helped grow the game, but was also in charge during the steroid era that brought many records into question.