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Nationality
  
Australia

Name
  
Mike Harwood

Spouse
  
Donna

Role
  
Golfer

European seniors tour
  
1

Children
  
Megan, Rhys

Height
  
1.93 m

European tour
  
5

Turned professional
  
1979

Weight
  
83 kg


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Full name
  
Michael Geoffrey Harwood

Born
  
8 January 1959 (age 65) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (
1959-01-08
)

Residence
  
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Former tours
  
PGA European Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia

Current tours
  
European Senior Tour

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Michael Geoffrey Harwood (born 8 January 1959) is an Australian professional golfer.

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Harwood was born in Sydney. He turned professional in 1979 and has extensive experience on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. He won five times in Europe, including a 1990 victory in the European Tour's home tournament at Wentworth, which was then called the Volvo PGA Championship, later that year he won the Volvo Masters Tour Championship at Valderrama. He achieved a career best European Tour Order of Merit ranking of sixth that year. The following year he was runner-up to fellow Australian Ian Baker-Finch at the Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, several weeks later he won the GA European Open at Walton Heath. In his prime he played occasionally in the United States but he never had a top ten finish in any PGA Tour event other than the Open Championship. In the early 1990s, Harwood achieved his highest world ranking of 20 overall. His round of 61 at the Australian PGA Championship at Concord in 1992 was his best professional score recorded. Prior to joining the European Senior Tour Harwood served as a board member of the Australian PGA in the early 2000s.

Harwood won his first title on the European Senior Tour at the season ending OKI Castellón Senior Tour Championship by three strokes. The win caused Harwood to finish 9th on the 2009 final money list and earned him the title of Rookie of the Year. Despite over 100 Pro-Am victories, it marked his first professional tournament win in 18 years. He again finished in the top-10 in the Order of Merit in 2011.

Harwood won the Order of Merit and Rookie of the year honors on the Australian Senior Tour (PGA Legends Tour) in 2009. He won the Order of Merit a second time in 2015, by a significant margin. He has won multiple events on the tour including the Australian Open, Australian PGA Championship and TPC Championship.

In 2016, he finished 18th on European Senior Tour and 3rd on the Australian Legends Tour money lists.

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

  • 1986 Australian PGA Championship
  • 1990 West End South Australian Open
  • Other wins (5)

  • 1984 Fijian Open, Pacific Harbour Open (Fiji), Western Samoan Open
  • 1986 Naturgas Open (Sweden)
  • 1996 Victorian PGA Championship
  • Other senior wins (17)

  • 2009 Australian Senior Open, Tasmanian Senior Open, NSW PGA Championship
  • 2010 NZ Handa PGA Championship, Tasmanian Senior Open, Queensland PGA Senior Championship
  • 2011 City of South Perth Masters Pro Am (Asia Pacific Champions Tour), NSW PGA Championship
  • 2012 Australian PGA Championship, Tasmanian Senior Open, Sri Lankan Airlines Senior Golf Masters
  • 2013 Victorian Senior Open, TPC Championship
  • 2015 Tasmanian Senior Open, SA PGA Senior Championship, Fijian Senior Open, NSW PGA Championship
  • 2016 Tasmanian Senior Open
  • Results in major championships

    Note: Harwood never played in the Masters Tournament.
    DNP = Did not play
    CUT = missed the half-way cut
    "T" = tied
    Yellow background for top-10.

    Team appearances

  • World Cup (representing Australia): 1984, 1991
  • Dunhill Cup (representing Australia): 1991
  • Four Tours World Championship (representing Australasia): 1991
  • References

    Mike Harwood Wikipedia