Sim drills eight straight birdies at Nationwide Championship

Michael Sim has been playing this year's Nationwide Tour like a man among boys -- and not the kind of boys that can outdrive Tiger Woods, either. He won himself a battlefield promotion to the PGA Tour after winning three Nationwide events, and so it's no surprise that he's running away with the Nationwide Championship, too.Okay, "running away" may be a little premature -- we're only one day in, after all -- but what else can you say about a guy who runs off eight straight birdies? Sim set a course record and now has a three-stroke lead on the field at the championships, held at Daniel Island in Charleston, South Carolina. And he very nearly tied the Tour's record of nine straight birdies, set by Omar Uresti at the 1994 Shreveport Open. Sim's putt on 12 stopped just inches short of the cup. It's a fitting capper to a memorable 2009 for Sim, once the No. 1 amateur in the world and already the Nationwide Tour's all-time single-season money winn...