Mike Harwood


Michael Geoffrey Harwood 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, 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 he never had a top ten finish in any PGA Tour event other than the Open Championship. In late 1991, 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 honours on the Australian Senior 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 Open, Australian PGA Championship and twice winning the TPC Championship.
In 2019, he won the first two event of season, the Victorian Senior Masters and Victorian Senior PGA Championship, he also won the Legends Player of the Year.

Professional wins (34)

European Tour wins (5)

No.DateTournamentWinning scoreMargin of
victory		Runner-up
11 May 1988Portuguese Open−8 1 stroke Eamonn Darcy
220 Aug 1989PLM Open−13 1 stroke Peter Senior
328 May 1990Volvo PGA Championship−17 1 stroke John Bland, Nick Faldo
428 Oct 1990Volvo Masters+2 1 stroke Steven Richardson, Sam Torrance
51 Sep 1991GA European Open−11 2 strokes Sandy Lyle

PGA Tour of Australasia wins (2)

Other wins (5)

Other senior wins (21)

Note: Harwood never played in the Masters Tournament.
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances