Mike Clayton is a modern golf renaissance man – a student of the game, as well as historian, course architect, former touring pro and journalist. Mike played on the Australasian Tour for 26 years, winning seven times, and also competed on the European Tour for 18 years, winning the 1984 Timex Open. For many years he wrote a golf column in The Sunday Age. He is now a course architect, partnering with 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy along with Mike Cocking and Ashley Mead in their Melbourne-based design business.