Article: At the top - but Mick still has a fairway to go; In association with RBS Monday interview Mick Thompson, the new senior partner at KPMG in Newcastle, is a serious player in the North East business world. But away from work his sporting efforts do not always attract great plaudits, discovers Peter McCusker.(Features)

AS a former Northumberland county schoolboy rugby player and cricketer Mick Thompson thought his achievements on these sporting fields would be matched when he took up golf 20 years ago.

Still playing off a handicap of 24 (not very good for those to whom golf talk is alien!) his friends are quick to remind him of his golfing frailties.

"With my mates at my regular weekend four ball at Bamburgh Castle Golf Club I am often asked how I can be so good at some sports, but so bad at golf."

He takes solace in that oft-heard refrain of those whose fairway ...

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