Steven Alker on Playing Well for Years

Hack It Out Golf

Golf Swing Productions by Mark Crossfield Greg Chalmers and Lou Stagner

Golf, Education, Sports

4.6 • 488 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Hack It Out Golf, Mark, Greg, and Lou welcome Champions Tour star Steven Alker. They explore his journey from New Zealand amateur golf through the Canada, European, Korn Ferry, and PGA Tours, to his remarkable Champions Tour career: 11 wins, a perfect 104/104 cuts made, and 76 top-10s in just 104 events. Steven shares the key shifts in his game: smarter (not harder) preparation, mental freshness, energy conservation, a simple technical blueprint with strong face stability, and giving himself freedom to enjoy golf with less self-pressure in his 50s. A great listen on career longevity and unlocking peak performance later in life.

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0:00.8	Welcome to the Hacking Out Golf podcast.
0:03.0	Special day for us today.
0:04.2	We've got a special guest.
0:06.3	One of Greg's competitors, I should say, Greg, really, isn't it?
0:10.1	This is one of your nemesis.
0:12.2	I wish we were competing.
0:14.9	So we've got Champions Tour star, I could call him.
0:19.0	Stephen Alka.
0:20.1	Welcome, Stephen.
0:23.8	Thank you for your time. No, thanks, Mike thanks my good to be on i wouldn't say special that's that's going a bit far but it's uh it's great to be on guys thank you
0:28.8	well we we don't have many guests so maybe honored guest it could be we were not that good
0:34.1	are we boys um so really looking forward to this. I know Greg has a load of questions for you, Steve, and I think he's going to be. So make sure you don't give away any of your trade secrets to him, obviously. You have to be like, do your political answers. Thanks, Mark. Yeah. Dude, I'm coming off an 85. I'll come off an 85 last Sunday. I think he can give away one or two things and break 80 for me. Yeah, this will be a bit like a therapy session for Greg Tuesday. If you can help us with that. He's on a year, mate. I only need one a year. Yeah. I wish. Just to throw everybody off, that's the thing.
1:11.4	Absolutely.
1:17.8	So before we get to the Champions Tour questions, I mean, I do just want to give some stats here that I've got in front of me.
1:20.9	So we got 11 wins on the Champions Tour.
1:22.2	Or is that correct?
1:22.7	11 wins?
1:23.7	Yep. 11 wins.
1:24.8	I like this.
1:26.5	Cuts made.
1:27.5	So you've played 104 events and you've made 104 cuts on the champions tour.
1:32.6	It's telling me.
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