Australian golf&aposs next big thing, Michael Sim, says he would jump at the chance to play in this year&aposs Presidents Cup but admits he is a long-shot for Greg Norman&aposs International team. The 24-year-old West Australian on Sunday claimed his third Nationwide Tour victory for the season at the Christmas in October Classic in Kansas, earning him instant &aposBattlefield Promotion&apos to the PGA Tour. From just 12 starts in 2009, Sim has earned more than $US 527,000 ($AU 638,380) – putting him way out in front on the money list and becoming the first player in Nationwide Tour history to earn more than $500,000 in a single season. His victory in Kansas comes on top of earlier wins at the Stonebrae Classic and the BMW Charity Pro-Am. Sim also finished in the top 10 on four other occasions and made the cut at the two Majors he contested – a tie for 18th in his debut at the US Open and a share of 51st place at this month&aposs US PGA Championship. More impressively, his world ranking has soared to 57 – putting him squarely in the frame to be one of Norman&aposs two captain&aposs picks for the Presidents Cup, which will be held in San Francisco from October 6-11. Compatriot and mentor Geoff Ogilvy currently heads the International Team standings, and will be joined by Fiji&aposs Vijay Singh, Colombian Camilo Villegas, South African pair Retief Goosen and Ernie Els, Argentinean Angel Cabrera, Canadian Mike Weir, fellow Aussie Robert Allenby, PGA winner YE Yang from South Korea and another South African in Tim Clark. The US team includes world No.1 Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Steve Stricker, Kenny Perry, Zach Johnson, Stewart Cink, Sean O&aposHair, Jim Furyk, Anthony Kim and Justin Leonard. Sim said on Thursday he would &aposdefinitely&apos be interested in playing but concedes his chances are slim, with the likes of Rory Sabbatini, Jeev M Singh, Ryo Ishikawa and Aussies Mathew Goggin, Brendan Jones and Adam Scott ahead of him in the pecking order. “Of course I&aposd be interested. But I haven&apost been in touch with Greg or anyone from the Presidents Cup. That&aposs in their court,” said Sim, who has never met the two-time Major winner. “I think it&aposd be a big step to play in it. I haven&apost been playing on the PGA Tour this year so haven&apost been playing against the best players in the world every event, whereas obviously the Nationwide Tour is a secondary tour, development tour.” “But winning is winning, I&aposve been doing that, my form this year has been good, played a couple of Majors and got to play with Tiger (Woods at the US Open) and it&aposs been a great year.” “But it&aposs up to Greg what he wants to do with the Presidents Cup, it&aposd be great to play but I probably haven&apost been playing the right tour to get selected on that team.” “If it happens great, if not, it&aposs not going to affect me too much.” Norman wrote in a blog on the PGA website this week he was looking for a &aposbalanced&apos team aiming to wrest back the trophy it has not won since beating the USA in Melbourne in 1998. “I&aposve got to make sure the team is excited and energetic about the Presidents Cup and their team-mates. And I&aposve got to be confident that the team is going to go out there and play their best golf,” he wrote. “I&aposm being honest when I say I can go down to No.40 (on the current points list) to try and find two guys that I really think are going to be supporting team members of my team. I&aposm really looking forward to the next few weeks to see who might make a last-minute move and show they are the right choice to round out the International Team.” Sim, who is now unable to play on the PGA Tour until October as it heads into the FedEx Cup Play-offs, will compete in three or four tournaments to end the US season before returning to Australia for the Masters, Open and PGA Championship. Born in Scotland, Sim moved to Perth with his family at the age of five, making his first WA state junior side at 14 before being selected in the senior team in 2001 at 16. He moved to Melbourne in 2002 and became a member at Yarra Yarra Golf Club while attending the Australian Institute of Sport. In 2005 he was ranked the game&aposs No.1 amateur golfer. The following year he won his first professional title at the PalmettoPride Classic in a play-off over Ken Dukes but his brief rise to the 2007 PGA Tour came to a shuddering halt due to a stress fracture in his spine – an injury so severe it threatened to derail his career before it really even got off the ground. Now fully fit, Sim is cashing in on his immense talent and aiming to live up to his massive potential. “The last two years have been tough, I had that injury that hung around for longer than I expected,” he said. “I&aposm excited this time to go out on the tour. My world ranking is down to 57 and I feel like I can win out there now.” “I feel like I&aposm at the point now I want to play against the best players in the world.”