Articles by Steve Keipert

The Money Issue: Hot Tips

Aussies love a punt on golf’s biggest names, as evidenced by these popular domestic competitions. Here’s what participating taught us.

Journeys: Elvis Smylie

Having a famous name and famous parents isn’t preventing the young Queenslander from forging his own path.

Architecture: The Art Of Design

A round-table discussion of Australian course architects reveals the trends, tales and talking points of golf course architecture in this country and abroad.

Journeys: Justice Bosio

The lone Australian in this year’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur field has come a long way from the toddler who watched golf on TV to stop crying.

Top 100 spotlight: Grange Golf Club

Architecturally speaking, this month’s LIV Golf Adelaide tournament (April 21-23) is what you might describe as Grange Golf Club’s version of Istanbul – where East meets West.

Top 100 spotlight: Links Hope Island

Since its opening in March 1993, the golf course at Links Hope Island has regularly featured among the leading courses in Australia.

Journeys: David Micheluzzi

Like many local tour players, COVID dealt this Melbourne pro a poor hand, but now he feels like he’s turned the corner.

Tasmania: Welcome Mat

Mathew Goggin, Tasmania’s best-known touring pro, has a new passion project: drawing more golfers to his hometown of Hobart courtesy of two new world-class courses.

2023/2024 New Zealand Top 50 Courses

If it’s world-class golf you’re after, two of the best new courses in the world lie in the north of New Zealand’s North Island. They lead the pack when it comes to our ranking of the best layouts ‘across the ditch’.

Top 100 spotlight: Elanora Country Club

Elanora’s charmed run within our biennial ranking was broken only by the club’s request to sit out the first three rankings of the new millennium while major course work was conducted and settled.