Who’s your nominee for the most compelling winner on the professional tours Sunday?

Chez Reavie, a 26-year-old rookie, body by Pavin, who led all four rounds to earn his first PGA Tour victory by three strokes over Billy Mayfair in the Canadian Open?

How about Bruce Vaughn, who made a 20-foot birdie putt to beat John Cook in sudden death to win the British Senior Open? (It was Vaughn’s first victory on the Champions or the regular tour. Cook had a three-stroke lead on the tenth tee, and a one-stroke lead as he played the 18th. Vaughn’s victory comes seven weeks after his mother was killed in a car crash after watching him play in Iowa.)

Or was it Helen Alfredsson, reborn at the age of 43, coming off a second-place finish at the U.S. Open earlier this month? Alfredsson went three sudden-death playoff holes with Angela Park and Na-Yeon Choi to claim her first victory in five years. Choi is 20. Park, the rookie of the year in 2007, is 19.

Reavie was pretty impressive, especially with Anthony Kim doing his best in recent weeks to make us forget some guy named Eldrick. Reavie has something else going for him; he wearsQuagmire Golf sportswear. If you can get past the name, Quagmire, which is two years old and based outside of Toronto, definitely qualifies as a fresh idea in sportswear. Sponsoring a rookie like Reavie, who has made 15 of 22 cuts this year, is clearly a coup for a young company.

That aside, I have to give the nod to Alfredsson, a cool competitor who has battled a string of injuries and Sunday beat out kids less than half her age. She’s at the stage of her career where she’s collecting various honoraria and serving as Solheim Cup captain. The victory elevates her to seventh on the money list, one strong indication that she’s having her best year since 1993 when she finished fifth.  — Robert Lohrer