Mike Harwood

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Mike Harwood
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Personal information
Full nameMichael Geoffrey Harwood
Born (1959-01-08) 8 January 1959 (age 65)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Weight200 lb (91 kg; 14 st)
Sporting nationalityFlag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Residence Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
SpouseDonna
Children5
Career
Turned professional1979
Current tour(s) European Senior Tour
Former tour(s) European Tour
PGA Tour of Australasia
Professional wins34
Highest ranking 20 (22 September 1991) [1]
Number of wins by tour
European Tour5
PGA Tour of Australasia2
European Senior Tour1
Other26
Best results in major championships
Masters Tournament DNP
PGA Championship CUT: 1991, 1992
U.S. Open T49: 1991
The Open Championship 2nd: 1991
Achievements and awards
European Senior Tour
Rookie of the Year 		2009

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

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Early life

Harwood was born in Sydney.

Professional career

In 1979, Harwood turned professional and has extensive experience on the PGA Tour of Australasia and the European Tour. His first Australian title was the 1986 Australian PGA Championship. He won five times on the European Tour; the first was at the 1988 Portuguese Open and the second was the 1989 PLM Open. In 1990, his first of three major Europe wins was the European Tour's flagship tournament at Wentworth, which was then called the Volvo PGA Championship, later that year he won the Volvo Masters at Valderrama, two weeks later in Australia he won the West End South Australian Open by five strokes. He achieved a career best European Tour Order of Merit ranking of sixth that year.

The following year, 1991, 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 never had a top-10 finish in any PGA Tour event. [2] In late 1991, Harwood achieved his highest world ranking of #20. His round of 61 at the Australian PGA Championship at Concord in 1992 was his best professional score recorded. Harwood served as a board member of the Australian PGA in the early 2000s.

Senior career

Harwood won his first title on the European Senior Tour at the season ending OKI Castellón Senior Tour Championship by three strokes. 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 of the European Senior Tour Order of Merit in 2011.

Harwood won the Order of Merit and Rookie of the Year honours 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 over 75 events on the senior tour including the Australian Senior Open, Australian PGA Seniors Championship, and twice winning the Senior TPC Championship.

In 2019, he won the first two event of season, the Victorian Senior Masters and Victorian Senior PGA Championship. He also won 2019 Legend Tour Player of year.

Awards and honors

Harwood won 2009 Australian PGA Legends Tour Rookie of the Year

Professional wins (34)

European Tour wins (5)

Legend
Flagship events (1)
Tour Championships (1)
Other European Tour (3)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
11 May 1988 Portuguese Open −8 (73-70-68-69=280)1 stroke Flag of Ireland.svg Eamonn Darcy
220 Aug 1989 PLM Open −13 (66-70-67-68=271)1 stroke Flag of Australia (converted).svg Peter Senior
328 May 1990 Volvo PGA Championship −17 (69-68-67-67=271)1 stroke Flag of South Africa (1982-1994).svg John Bland, Flag of England.svg Nick Faldo
428 Oct 1990 Volvo Masters +2 (70-72-73-71=286)1 stroke Flag of England.svg Steven Richardson, Flag of Scotland.svg Sam Torrance
51 Sep 1991 GA European Open −11 (70-72-70-65=277)2 strokes Flag of Scotland.svg Sandy Lyle

PGA Tour of Australia wins (2)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner(s)-up
12 Nov 1986 Toshiba Australian PGA Championship −13 (69-69-73-64=275)2 strokes Flag of Australia (converted).svg Greg Norman
218 Nov 1990 West End South Australian Open −14 (66-71-73-68=278)5 strokes Flag of Australia (converted).svg Paul Moloney, Flag of New Zealand.svg Simon Owen

Swedish Golf Tour wins (1)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
125 May 1986 Naturgas Open −2 (73-72-69=214)3 strokes Flag of Sweden.svg Per-Arne Brostedt

Other wins (4)

European Senior Tour wins (1)

Legend
Tour Championships (1)
Other European Senior Tour (0)
No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
18 Nov 2009 OKI Castellón Senior Tour Championship −13 (65-72-66=203)3 strokes Flag of Paraguay (1990-2013).svg Ángel Franco

Other senior wins (21)

Results in major championships

Tournament198619871988198919901991199219931994
U.S. Open T49CUT
The Open Championship CUTCUTCUTT39CUT2T45T73CUT
PGA Championship CUTCUT

Note: Harwood never played in the Masters Tournament.

  Top 10
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances

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References

  1. ↑ "Week 38 1991 Ending 22 Sep 1991" (pdf). OWGR . Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "Mike Harwood – Career". PGA Tour. Retrieved 17 June 2016.
  3. ↑ "Australian PGA Seniors Championship Winners List" (PDF). PGA Australia.
  4. ↑ "Harwood claims fourth Open win". The Advocate. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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