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Golf · Level 2: Elementary · Sub-level 2.1

Ways into Golf

4 tests · 40 facts · updated 13 October 2026 · markdown

Lessons and coaches, beginners' programmes and short courses, kit for starting out, simulators and a first Handicap Index.

Each test below is ten questions on Insporta. The list under a test is what the questions check: one fact per question, with the source it was written from. Read it before the test, or come back from a wrong answer.

Test 1Lessons and handicapsTake a test

  1. PGA professionals are trained and qualified to coach.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  2. Learning alongside others also makes it more sociable.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  3. A few irons, a wood and a putter are enough to start.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  4. Clubs can be fitted properly once the swing settles.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  5. Any mix of 9- and 18-hole scores adding up to 54 holes will do.

    Source: USGA and The R&A, World Handicap System: Rules of Handicapping (2024) · recall

  6. A disaster on one hole does not wreck the handicap.

    Source: USGA and The R&A, World Handicap System: Rules of Handicapping (2024) · recall

  7. Sensors or cameras measure each shot and show its flight.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  8. Short steps make the first full round easier.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  9. The index then updates with every score.

    Source: USGA and The R&A, World Handicap System: Rules of Handicapping (2024) · recall

  10. Range balls are often made to fly a little shorter and last longer.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · applied

Test 2Learning with a coachTake a test

  1. The set-up shapes everything that follows.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  2. What a swing feels like and looks like often differ.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  3. Drills repeat one movement until it becomes habit.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  4. Control near the green also saves the most strokes.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  5. Two sticks can show the target line and the feet line.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  6. Picking a target and a shot shape for each ball copies the course.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  7. Good coaching builds from one session to the next.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  8. Simple foundations come before full swings.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  9. Coaches usually work outwards from the hole.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · applied

  10. PGA professionals teach at clubs, ranges and academies.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · applied

Test 3Programmes and courses for beginnersTake a test

  1. Many clubs run them with clubs and balls provided.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  2. Every hole can be reached in one shot from the tee.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  3. Hiring avoids buying a set too early.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  4. Many run coaching and junior competitions.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  5. It gives practice and limited play while the player learns.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  6. Nine-hole scores also count towards a handicap.

    Source: USGA and The R&A, World Handicap System: Rules of Handicapping (2024) · recall

  7. Repetition builds the swing faster.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  8. Each step adds longer holes.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  9. Spend more once you know you will stay with the game.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  10. A half set keeps the bag light and the choices simple.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · applied

Test 4Practice tools and technologyTake a test

  1. Radar or cameras track the ball and the club.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  2. Coaches use them to see what each swing does to the ball.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  3. Total distance adds the roll after landing.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  4. Hitting at a target copies play on the course.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  5. It lets a player swing in a small space.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  6. Many have a cup at one end.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  7. Distance-measuring devices are allowed unless a Local Rule says otherwise.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 4.3a · recall

  8. Each shot is measured in a fraction of a second.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · recall

  9. Roll adds to carry on firm ground.

    Source: General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides) · recall

  10. It shows the shot's flight on a virtual course.

    Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides) · applied

Sources

PGA coaching and general teaching guides, the World Handicap System Rules of Handicapping, and the Rules of Golf 2023 where a beginner needs a rule; original questions authored, nothing reproduced. Rule-by-rule procedures belong to the Rules of Golf category.

  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)23
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)12
  • USGA and The R&A, World Handicap System: Rules of Handicapping (2024)4
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 4.3a1