Golf Monthly Top 100 Course Rankings Panel
Meet the golfers who were tasked with assessing all the best golf courses during 2007/8 for potential inclusion in our list of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the UK & Ireland
GOLF MONTHLY STAFF
Michael Harris Age: 38 H’cap: 8 Neil Tappin Age: 27 H’cap: 5 Jeremy Ellwood Age: 45 H’cap: 5 Alex Narey Age: 33 H’cap: 18 Luke Norman Age: 28 H’cap: 8 Paul O’ Hagan Age: 24 H’cap: 6 Fergus Bisset Age: 28 H’cap: 2 Rob Smith Age: 51 H’cap: 14
SENIOR READER PANELLISTS
George Asprey Age: 42 H’cap: 4 Simon Beattie Age: 59 H’cap: 12 Tim Browne Age: 55 H’cap: 3 Bryan Bull Age: 59 H’cap: 15 Robert Davey Age: 45 H’cap: 13 John Drake Age: 37 H’cap: 12 Alan Ferguson Age: 42 H’cap: 3 David Fleet Age: 60 H’cap: 12 Stephen Green Age: 47 H’cap: 18 Martyn Hocking Age: 44 H’cap: 17 Colin Lavender Age: 58 H’cap: 8 Eric Lee Age: 66 H’cap: 16 John Lorimer Age: 32 H’cap: 3 Christian Morris Age: 41 H’cap: 6 Malcolm Peake Age: 64 H’cap: 10 Graham Presland Age: 39 H’cap: 8 Allan Probetts Age: 65 H’cap: 18 Gareth Williams Age: 40 H’cap: 7 Alun Willis Age: 32 H’cap: 5 Rod Wiltshire Age: 62 H’cap: 9
Where next? - Golf Monthly's Top 100 Golf Courses - An introduction to Golf Monthly's Top 100 Golf Courses by editor, Mike Harris - How do Golf Monthly assess the Top 100 Golf courses?
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Mike has been a journalist all his working life, starting out as a football writer with Goal magazine in the 1990s before moving into men’s and women’s lifestyle magazines including Men's Health, In 2003 he joined Golf Monthly and in 2006 he became only the eighth editor in Golf Monthly’s 100-plus year history leading the brand until July 2023. He is now Content Director overseeing Golf Monthly and two other iconic sports brands, FourFourTwo and Rugby World.
His three main passions in golf are courses (he's played over 500 worldwide), equipment (he's always in search of something shiny to give him an edge) and shoes (he owns more pairs than he cares to mention!).
Mike’s handicap index hovers at around 10 and he is a member of six golf clubs: Hartley Wintney, Royal Liverpool, Royal North Devon, Prince's, Royal Norton and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.
Mike's current What's In The Bag?
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 10° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 5S - Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grip
Fairway woods: TaylorMade Sim Max 3/15° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 6S & TaylorMade Stealth 7/20° - Fujikura Ventus Red 6S - Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grips
Utility Iron: TaylorMade Stealth UDI 3/21° - Aldila Ascent 90HY - Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grip
Irons: TaylorMade P790 (5-PW) - Fujikura Axiom 75R - Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grips
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 50°, 54° and 58° - KBS Tour Hi-Rev 2.0 shafts - Golf Pride MCC Plus4 grips
Putter: Evnroll ER2B - Gravity Grip
Ball: TaylorMade - Tour Response (Yellow)
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