Articles by Steve Keipert

December 22nd, 2025

Editor’s letter: What we learnt from 2025

Twin Aussie major winners, a career Grand Slam completed and a return to ‘normal’ Australian Opens highlighted a banner year in world golf.

December 22nd, 2025

Top 100 spotlight: Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club

As far as redesigns go, few can surpass the impact of the renovation of the two courses at Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club late last decade.

December 22nd, 2025

Tasmanian tiger: 7 Mile Beach

In 7 Mile Beach, Hobart has a new world-class golf offering that plays like multiple courses in one.

December 22nd, 2025

West laid plans: Golf in Western Australia

The recent renovation of two favourite courses accentuates Western Australia’s allure as a golf destination.  Facelifts are all the rage in golf. Unlike many ageing Hollywood stars on a desperate quest for relevance, however, most re-dos in golf are an improvement on what went before. Western Australia provides a couple of great case studies with Read more…

December 4th, 2025

Opinion: Why Rory McIlroy is right about Royal Melbourne. And wrong

The Northern Irishman needs to see Royal Melbourne in more guises before he can fully opine about its architectural merits.

December 2nd, 2025

Australian Open: Cam Smith’s last chance to redeem a lost year

This week’s Crown Australian Open at venerable Royal Melbourne Golf Club offers the 2022 Open champion one final chance to right an otherwise lost year.

November 30th, 2025

Australian Open: Beware a comfortable yet confident Marc Leishman

Marc Leishman is exuding that difficult-to-attain combination of confidence and comfort ahead of this week’s Australian Open.

November 30th, 2025

Australian PGA: Spain’s David Puig takes the title in a rare international assault

Spanish professional David Puig has become the first international winner since 2016 and just the second from his homeland to claim the BMW Australian PGA Championship.

November 30th, 2025

Australian PGA: Where to from here? The 2026 venue remains unclear

Future locations for the Australian PGA Championship are uncertain, with Royal Queensland set to relinquish hosting rights for at least the next few years.

November 29th, 2025

Australian PGA: Three lead as a scintillating Sunday awaits

For all the eclectic ingredients this BMW Australian PGA Championship has offered up for three days, the most compelling of all is the complete absence of any certainty in the outcome.

November 28th, 2025

Australian PGA: One rested, one primed, Davis and Leishman add star power to a cosmopolitan leaderboard

With respect to frontrunner Brett Rankin, the star power on the BMW Australian PGA Championship leaderboard rests with two of his countrymen.

November 27th, 2025

Australian PGA: Spain’s Garcia leads the way, but not the one you’re thinking of

World No.418 Sebastian Garcia blitzed the Royal Queensland layout in seven-under-par for the 15 holes he completed in the afternoon wave before storms halted play early.

November 26th, 2025

Australian PGA: Connor McKinney is riding a wave

If momentum counts for anything at this week’s BMW Australian PGA Championship, then Connor McKinney is surging at the right time.

November 25th, 2025

Australian PGA: Defending champion Elvis Smylie is making friends in all the right places

The mark of a professional golfer can often be gauged by the company they keep. Or, in the case of Elvis Smylie, the company that keeps them.

November 22nd, 2025

Editor’s letter: A free hit?

The ingenious ways Australian golf clubs deal with Christmas-Day freeloaders.

November 22nd, 2025

Top 100 Spotlight: Bonnie Doon Golf Club

Boonie Doon is a course that has kept rising on our ranking ever since completing its drawn-out redesign that saw almost a decade of segmented upheaval, yet was surely worth the wait.

November 22nd, 2025

Pathways to greatness:  2026 Australian Master of the Amateur

The 2026 Australian Master of the Amateurs looks to enhance a reputation the tournament has built for uncovering golf’s future stars

November 12th, 2025

If you think the golf-course scene in Australia is uneventful, just wait a week

If a week is a long time in politics, football or whichever pursuit you’d like to inject into the time-honoured saying, don’t ever let it be said that a week is a short period in golf – or golf courses.

November 5th, 2025

Style & Grace

Grace Kim authored one of the great finishes in major-championship history on her way to winning the Evian Championship. Yet to those who know her, the Sydneysider’s final flourish came as no surprise.

October 25th, 2025

Editor’s letter: Master of its domain?

We’ve gone 10 years without the Australian Masters, yet whispers persist. Is the storied event finished, or awaiting a revival?

October 25th, 2025

Top 100 Spotlight: Royal Adelaide Golf Club

Among the top 10 layouts on our biennial Top 100 Golf Courses ranking, none exhibits as high a ‘quirk factor’ as venerable Royal Adelaide Golf Club.

October 19th, 2025

Oliver Bekker keeps it interesting until the end in winning an unpredictable WA Open

South African Oliver Bekker confessed he momentarily “lost the ability to play golf” before showing great coolness under pressure in winning the WA Open at Mount Lawley Golf Club.