Michael Sim News

There's one more piece of major hardware to be delivered, though the engraver is hardly on standby and the spelling won't exactly be foreign to him.

Thousands of fans created a steady stream of traffic Wednesday across the 10th fairway at Kingston Heath, then turned and moved en masse up the left side of the 481-yard hole.

MORE than half of the money being held by TAB Sportsbet last night on the Australian Masters had come for Tiger Woods, as interest in the four-day tournament spiked.

Only two golfers boast an average score under 69 in 2009. One is Tiger Woods. The other is an Aussie still largely unknown in his home country.

"He's surely going to be one of Australia's best players for the next 20 years." Geoff Ogilvy is speaking about his protege, neighbour and, in the opinion of many, his possible successor as Australia's No.1 player, Michael Sim.

GOLF Australia has cast its net far and wide for ''a player of similar stature'' to replace Greg Norman in the $1.5 million Australian Open at the NSW Golf Club, but it is almost mission impossible with the majority of golf's elite otherwise occupied in the first week of December.

One by one, players in the Nationwide Tour Championship walked into the media interview area to discuss their rounds and their dreams of playing on the 2010 PGA Tour.

Michael Sim, Fran Quinn and 23 other Nationwide Tour players earned the right to ply their trade on the PGA Tour in 2010.

The e-mail was from a friend and, more importantly, a long-time PGA Tour observer who has come by his insights honestly and it prompted an immediate and utterly repented mea culpa.

Coming off of the 2009 Nationwide Tour season, Tour President - and University of Maryland alum - Bill Calfee shifted his thinking to '10 in meetings yesterday in Charleston, SC.

Unlike many of his fellow Nationwide players, Michael Sim didn't have to sweat it out during last week's season-ending Tour Championship.

Matt Every won the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship on Sunday to earn a 2010 PGA Tour card with a 10th-place finish on the money list, closing with a 5-under 67 for a three-stroke victory over Michael Sim.

Michael Sima s eloquence is as impressive as his shot making. Though the Australian is privately frustrated with the PGA Tour, he didna t whine about it upon his arrival for this weeka s Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island in Charleston, S.C. Michael Sim wants to let his clubs do his talking.

Michael Every fired a course-record, nine- under 63 Friday to grab a one-stroke lead after two rounds of the Nationwide Tour Championship.

Michael Sim had eight straight birdies and finished with a course-record eight-under 64 on Thursday to take a three-stroke lead in the season-ending Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island.

Michael Sim showed on Thursday why he's the Nationwide Tour's leading money winner.

Jim Furyk ended his 2009 season on the PGA Tour with a 62 in Las Vegas and finished the year with 11 top 10s and nearly $4 million in earnings.

One week in late February changed Alistar Presnell's life significantly; this week's Nationwide Tour Championship at Daniel Island Club could change the young Australian's life dramatically.

The 2009 Nationwide Tour's penultimate event, the Miccosukee Championship is played this week at the Mark Mahannah designed Miccosukee Golf and Country Club in Miami.

It is a lucrative week for the Nationwide Tour this week in San Jacinto California when the inaugural Soboba Classic is played for a purse of US$1 million at the Desmond Muirhead designed Country Club at Soboba Springs.