ABERDEEN'S MICHAEL SIM LEADS

AUSSIE PGA CHAMPIONSHIP

WITH A 65

Aberdeen-born Michael Sim recaptured his pre-back injury form to shoot a seven-under-par 65 and lead the Australian PGA championship by one shot at the end of the first day at Hyatt Regency Coolum Resort Golf Club in Queensland.
Sim, 23, emigrated with his parents to Perth, Western Australia in the 1990s. Introduced to golf by his father George, a former member of Aberdeen Northern Golf Club, Michael proved a natural and rose to become the world's top ranked amateur (before Richie Ramsay did) and then turned professional in 2005.
Michael won a place on the 2007 US PGA Tour by finishing in the top 20 of the Nationwide Tour in 2006 but was diagnosed with a stress fracture of the lower spine last winter and was late in starting his rookie season on the US Tour.
FIRST ROUND
Par 72

Players from Australia unless stated.
65 Michael Sim.
66 J.B. Holmes, Richard Green, Craig Parry, Peter Lonard.
67 Adam Scott, David Smail (NZ).
68 David Lutterus (RSA), Aaron Townsend, Rory Sabbatini (RSA), Gavin Coles, Michael McGrath, Adam Bland, Ewan Porter, Michael Long (NZ), Vernon Sexton-Finck.
69 Scott Laycock, Mahal Pearce (NZ), John Senden, Ben Burge, Steven Bowditch, Nick Flanagan, David Diaz, David McKenzie, Matthew Ecob, Scott Sterling, Marc Leishman, Marcus Fraser.
70 Michael Brennan, Anthony Summers, Nick O'Hern, Leigh McKechnie, Lucas Parsons, Kang Kyung-nam (Kor), Michael Curtain, Brad Kennedy, Scott Gardiner, Steven Conran, Peter Wilson, Jason Gore, Ryan Haller, Terry Pilkadaris, Peter Senior, Cameron Percy.
71 Matthew Millar, Aron Price, Andrew Martin, Andrew Tschudin, Dean Kinney, Jarrod Moseley, Nathan Green, Tom Davis, Craig Scott, Scott Draper (Rsa), Tatsuhiko Takahashi (Jpn), Luke Hickmott, Ben Bunny, Julian Reynolds, Toshinori Muto (Jpn), Lucas Bates (Can), Rodney Booth.
72 Chris Campbell, Paul Gow, Andrew Tampion, Scott Adland, Stephen Leaney, James Nitties, Brad Lamb, Bradley Iles (NZ), Steve Alker (NZ), Greg Chalmers, Andrew Dodt, Marcus Cain, Wayne Perske, Jarrod Lyle, Sang-moon Bae (Kor), Simon Furneaux, Anthony Brown, Hyung-tae Kim (Jpn), Peter O'Malley, Paul Sheehan
73 Mitchell Tasker, Peter Nolan, Andrew Bonhomme, Steven Jeffress, Brent O'donoghue, Paul Marantz, Brett Rumford, Josh Carmichael, Clint Rice, Ricky Schmidt, Wade Ormsby, Kim Felton, Heath Reed, Takuya Taniguchi (Jpn), Ryan Moore
74 Chris Gray (Eng), Chris Downes, Wayne Grady, Wayne Rostron, Darren Kapusi, Murray Lott, Darren Spencer, Shaun Piper, Terry Price, Brandt Snedeker, Robin Hodgetts (RSA)
75 Paul Spargo, Neven Basic, Won Lee (Kor), Mark Hensby, Andrew Pitt, Michael Wright, Adam Crawford, Anthony Painter, Matt Ballard, Peter Fowler, Ashley Hall.
76 Brendan Chant, Ed Stedman, Tigh Van Leeuwen, Aaron Pike, Steve Jones, Nathan Kent, Brad Shilton (NZ), Jason Norris, Aaron Black, Kevin Stadler, Alistair Presnell, Lee Hunt, Euan Walters, Justin Smith.
77 Eric Egloff, Tim Wise, Ben Wharton, Shayne Hayman, Martin Doyle, Kris Barkway, Yoshikazu Haku (Jpn).
78 Tony McFadyean, Adam Porker, Peter Freeland, Doug Holloway (NZ), Tatsuhiko Ichihara (Jpn), Henry Epstein, Tristan Lambert, Shane Baxter, Paul Donahoo, Stuart Appleby.
79 Li Chao (Chn), Robert Curtis, Michael Light.
80 Glenn Joyner.
82 Jens Nilsson (Swe).
83 Andrew McKenzie (Eng).
85 Kurt Barnes.