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

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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 Harris
Content Director

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 courses worldwide), equipment (he's always in search of something shinny 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 four golf clubs: Hartley Wintney, Royal Liverpool, Royal North Devon and the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.


Mike's current What's In The Bag? 

Driver: TaylorMade Stealth Plus+ 9° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 5S

Fairway woods: TaylorMade Sim Max 3/15° - Fujikura Ventus Blue 6S & TaylorMade Stealth 7/20° - Fujikura Ventus Red 6S

Utility Iron: TaylorMade Stealth UDI 3/21° - Aldila Ascent 90HY

Irons: TaylorMade P790 (5-PW)  - Nippon Tour NSPro 950S

Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 50°, 54° and 58° - KBS Tour Hi-Rev s2.0 hafts

Putter: Evnroll ER2B (Gravity Grip) 

Ball: TaylorMade Tour Response (Yellow)