Nova Southeastern graduate Greg O'Mahoney of Tequesta, seeded 27th out of 32 players after qualifying, won the Quest Division Match Play Championship at Palm Beach Gardens PGA National's Estate Course.

O'Mahoney edged Stuart's Justin Peters, a former champion, 2 and 1 in the final after defeating Dustin Cone of Burlington, Vt., 2 and 1, Brian Lamberti of Granite Springs, N.Y., 1-up, Stuart's Jerry Tucker 2 and 1 and, in the semifinals, Ocean Ridge's Jimmy Lytle 3 and 1.

The top qualifier, West Palm Beach's Steve LeBrun, got past Miami Shores' Victor Leoni 3 and 2 in the first round, and reached the semifinals before falling to Peters 2-up.

• Last Thursday, Jupiter's Ryan Armour made his Minor League Golf Tour debut with a 5-under-par 66 to win the tournament on The Fountains Country Club West course in Lake Worth. Armour, who spent 2007 and 2008 on the PGA Tour, played 26 Nationwide Tour events this year, making half the cuts, two top-10 finishes and finishing 62nd on the Nationwide money list.

COURSE OPENING

Doral Golf Resort & Spa will have, with good, old-fashioned American great fuss, the grand opening of The Jim McLean Signature Course on Friday morning.

McLean, whose golf schools dot the nation, designed the remodeling of what was known as Doral's Silver Course. An invitation to the event declares the course ``boasts arguably the three toughest starting holes in golf.''

THOMPSON HONORED

If there was a surprise that Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties had only one representative on the Rolex Junior All-American teams, there's no surprise as to who it was.

Coral Springs' Alexis Thompson received her third first-team All-American honor from the American Junior Golf Association after winning three tournaments, including the Junior PGA Championship.

Thompson is 14, which means she has been an All-American golfer for 21.4 percent of her life.

Matthew Ceravolo of Palm Beach Gardens Benjamin High received an honorable mention nod on the boys' side.

GOLFWEEK AWARDS

Golfweek's Definitive Guide to the Golf Life issue will name Punta Espada in The Dominican Republic's Cap Cana as the No. 1 course in the Mexican-Caribbean region.

Being in a part of the Dominican Republic that touches the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea certainly helped Punta's rating with the magazine's 500 course evaluators.

Pacific Dunes in Bandon, Ore., ranked as the best resort course, and Rock Creek Cattle Company in Bozeman, Mont., was selected as the top residential course.