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Golf · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.1

A Coaching Philosophy

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

What guides a coach: styles of coaching, safeguarding and duty of care, long-term development, and learning as a coach.

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 1Coaching stylesTake a test

  1. It shapes every choice in a session.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. The player's goals set the direction.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. Useful for safety and first steps.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. Answers found by the player tend to stick.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. It also builds the player's self-awareness.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  6. Change the task or setting, not the instruction.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. In a 1986 paper on motor development.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  8. After Mosston's spectrum of teaching styles.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

  9. A philosophy is checked against practice.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  10. The coach still frames the questions.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

Test 2Safeguarding and duty of careTake a test

  1. Every coach shares the responsibility.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  2. A condition of working with juniors.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  3. Open settings and two adults are the norm.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  4. It covers the setting, the task and the group.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  5. Following the club's procedure.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  6. Heat, cuts and blows from clubs are all possible.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  7. Breaches can cost a coach their licence.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  8. Never promise to keep a disclosure secret.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  9. Weather first, then the site, then the group.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · applied

  10. Spacing is the first safety rule of group coaching.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · applied

Test 3Long-term developmentTake a test

  1. Training fits the stage of development.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  2. Many experts advise against it for golf.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  3. Throwing, catching and balance all transfer.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  4. The base for every sport.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  5. A core aim of youth sport.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  6. Today's late developer can be tomorrow's champion.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  7. Adopted by many national sports bodies.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  8. Train to Win and Active for Life follow.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · recall

  9. Broad foundations first.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · applied

  10. Each step is a stage of growth.

    Source: Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research · applied

Test 4Reflective practiceTake a test

  1. Asking what worked, what did not, and why.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. In The Reflective Practitioner (1983).

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. Mentoring is a common route in coach education.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. Peer observation feeds reflection.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. Most coaching bodies require it each year.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  6. Patterns show up over weeks.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. Founded in 1901.

    Source: The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA) · recall

  8. Based on Gibbs' reflective cycle.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  9. Experience grows into guiding others.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  10. The loop starts again after each session.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

Sources

Coach-education texts and coaching science (Newell, Mosston, Schön, Gibbs, Knowles, Balyi), safeguarding codes of national golf bodies, periodisation and load-monitoring texts, and organisation histories (R&A, LPGA, LET, EDGA); original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs)19
  • Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies)10
  • Istvan Balyi, Long-Term Athlete Development model, and youth-sport research10
  • The Professional Golfers' Association (PGA)1