ABERDEEN-BORN MICHAEL SIM MAKES
GOOD START TO US PGA TOUR
STAGE 2 QUALIFYING SCHOOL
The second stage of US PGA Tour Q-School has begun across the United States with over 450 golfers bidding to get through to the final qualifying stage which will be contested by a field of 156 at Orange County National Country Club, Winter Garden in Florida, starting on November 28 and being played over 108 holes until December 3.
Only the top 25 plus ties at the end of that marathon will earn a US PGA Tour card for 2008.The second stage qualifying has begun at six different golf courses in Florida, California, Arizona and Texas, with around the top 15 from each earning a spot at the Final Q School in a fortnight.
Aberdeen-born Michael Sim has started well at the Royal Dunes Golf Club, Maricopa in Arizona. He is lying joint 14th in a field of 80 after a five-under-par, bogey-free round of 67 in which he birdied the second, fifth, 11th, 14th and 16.
Sim, who emigrated with his parents to Perth, Western Australia in 1991 when he was seven, graduated to the US Tour this season by finishing 19th in last year's Nationwide Tour but a stress fracture in the lower spine meant that he missed a heap of tournaments at the start of this season and finished 162nd in the money list with $399,900 from only 17 outings - more dollars earned than Glasgow's Martin Laird who is among the 2007 graduates from the Nationwide Tour with $252,679.
Sim has a medical exemption to play in six US Tour events in 2008, when he has to win enough to boost his 2007 earnings above that of the player (Mathias Gronberg with $785,180 from 31 starts) who finished in 125th place in the table. Confused? Well, Sim isn't. He knows he will have to average a take-home pay of about $65,000 in each of these six starts - by no means "Mission Impossible" but a good enough reason to send him to the Tour School to try to earn full playing rights, without any ifs and buts, in the Big League in 2008.
GOOD START TO US PGA TOUR
STAGE 2 QUALIFYING SCHOOL
The second stage of US PGA Tour Q-School has begun across the United States with over 450 golfers bidding to get through to the final qualifying stage which will be contested by a field of 156 at Orange County National Country Club, Winter Garden in Florida, starting on November 28 and being played over 108 holes until December 3.
Only the top 25 plus ties at the end of that marathon will earn a US PGA Tour card for 2008.The second stage qualifying has begun at six different golf courses in Florida, California, Arizona and Texas, with around the top 15 from each earning a spot at the Final Q School in a fortnight.
Aberdeen-born Michael Sim has started well at the Royal Dunes Golf Club, Maricopa in Arizona. He is lying joint 14th in a field of 80 after a five-under-par, bogey-free round of 67 in which he birdied the second, fifth, 11th, 14th and 16.
Sim, who emigrated with his parents to Perth, Western Australia in 1991 when he was seven, graduated to the US Tour this season by finishing 19th in last year's Nationwide Tour but a stress fracture in the lower spine meant that he missed a heap of tournaments at the start of this season and finished 162nd in the money list with $399,900 from only 17 outings - more dollars earned than Glasgow's Martin Laird who is among the 2007 graduates from the Nationwide Tour with $252,679.
Sim has a medical exemption to play in six US Tour events in 2008, when he has to win enough to boost his 2007 earnings above that of the player (Mathias Gronberg with $785,180 from 31 starts) who finished in 125th place in the table. Confused? Well, Sim isn't. He knows he will have to average a take-home pay of about $65,000 in each of these six starts - by no means "Mission Impossible" but a good enough reason to send him to the Tour School to try to earn full playing rights, without any ifs and buts, in the Big League in 2008.
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