MICHAEL SIM GETS BIGGEST CHEQUE
SO FAR ON UNITED STATES TOUR

Aberdeen-born Michael Sim, after missing the opening month or two of his rookie season in the US PGA Tour, earned his biggest cheque so far on Sunday in the Ginn Sur Mer Classic at Port St Lucie, Florida.
Michael put together rounds of 69, 67, 72 and 72 to finish joint ninth with a 12-under-par total of 280 over the 7,381yd, par-73 course at the Tesoro Club.
His cheque was for $121,500, boosting his season's earnings in the States to $389,228. That puts him in 162nd place.
Whether that is enough for Michael to keep his place on the world's No 1 tour for next season or whether he will get a medical exemption on the grounds of his stress fracture of the lower spine last winter is not clear at the moment.
Sim, who was 23 on October 23, has played in only 16 US PGA Tour events this season.
Two former competitions in the Doug Sanders world boys championship at Aberdeen - Daniel Chopra, an Indian-born Swede, and Frederick Jacobsen (Swen) - finished first and joint second in the Ginn Sur Mer Classic.
Chopra scored 67, 66, 69 and 71 for 19-under-par 273, finishing one shot ahead of Jacobsen (71-67-67-69) and Japan's Shigeki Maruyama.
It was Chopra's first win on the US Tour at the 133rd attempt and earned him $810,000. He has made close on $5,000,000 over the years. Jacobsen's high finish earned him $396,000.