Mike Harwood
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| Personal information | |
| Full name | Michael Geoffrey Harwood |
| Born |
8 January 1959 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) |
| Weight | 200 lb (91 kg; 14 st) |
| Nationality |
 Australia
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| Residence | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Spouse | Donna |
| Children | Rhys, Megan, Kendall, Casey, Corey |
| Career | |
| Turned professional | 1979 |
| Current tour(s) | European Senior Tour |
| Former tour(s) |
European Tour PGA Tour of Australasia |
| Professional wins | 30 |
| Number of wins by tour | |
| European Tour | 5 |
| PGA Tour of Australasia | 2 |
| European Senior Tour | 1 |
| Other | 22 |
| Best results in major championships |
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| Masters Tournament | DNP |
| U.S. Open | T49: 1991 |
| The Open Championship | 2nd: 1991 |
| PGA Championship | CUT: 1991, 1992 |
Michael Geoffrey Harwood (born 8 January 1959) is an Australian professional golfer.
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.
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