Sim gives title a miss to wait for child’s birth
GOLD Coast-based touring professional Michael Sim will miss a shot at holding the state Open-PGA title double at the same time because of pending fatherhood.
Former US PGA Tour campaigner Sim was set to play in the Queensland PGA Championship that starts at the City Golf Club in Toowoomba tomorrow.
However his wife Simone went into labour yesterday and the Australian PGA confirmed the subsequently withdrawal of Sim from the $125,000 tournament.
Scottish-born, Perth-raised but currently domiciled on the Gold Coast, 33-year-old Sim won the Queensland Open at the Brisbane Golf Club last October.
Once regarded as one of the hottest Australian products to venture on to the US Tour, Sim was plagued by injuries in his brief time there although he won four times on the secondary web.com tour.
There are still a number of former US Tour players in the Toowoomba field, including veteran Peter Lonard, James Nitties and Nick Flanagan.
Gold Coaster Brad Kennedy (pictured) will again be using the Queensland
PGA to tune up things as he prepares for a return to the Japanese PGA
Tour, where he has won twice.
Kennedy is a product of the Coolangatta-Tweed Heads junior program.
Defending PGA Champion is New Zealander Daniel Pearce.