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Golf · Level 3: Pre-Intermediate · Sub-level 3.3

Impact and Ball Flight

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

What happens at impact and how it shows in the flight: face and path, where the ball is struck, divots and low point, launch and spin.

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 1Face, path and curveTake a test

  1. The curve follows the face's angle relative to the path.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  2. Face and path both point right, matching each other.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  3. Face and path both point left.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  4. A bigger version of the same curve is a hook.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  5. A bigger version is a slice.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  6. With the face open to it, the ball curves away.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  7. The older teaching gave the path the main role.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  8. Hook and slice are the bigger curves.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

  9. Over the top is a common start of the chain.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

  10. The face is open to the path, so the ball curves right.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

Test 2Where the ball is struckTake a test

  1. It sits close to the centre of the face.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  2. Off-centre strikes twist the head and lose energy.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  3. This is called the gear effect.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  4. The face's curve (bulge) is shaped to bring the ball back.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  5. The ball shoots right for a right-hander.

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

  6. The mark shows toe, heel or centre at once.

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

  7. A centred strike gives the highest number.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  8. The farther from the centre, the more speed is lost.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

  9. The hosel is where the shaft joins the head.

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

  10. B is the centre, the sweet spot.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

Test 3Divots and low pointTake a test

  1. The club meets the ball while still descending.

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

  2. A divot behind the ball means a heavy strike.

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

  3. Measured in degrees: minus is down, plus is up.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  4. A divot records the path of the swing.

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

  5. It flies low and runs.

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

  6. Too steep an angle digs deep.

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

  7. A heavy strike catches the towel first.

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

  8. Behind the ball means the club hit the ground first.

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

  9. Ball, then turf, then the low point.

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

  10. Ball first, then turf.

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

Test 4Launch, spin and heightTake a test

  1. Shaft lean and hand position change it from the static loft.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  2. More spin loft means more backspin.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  3. Too much spin 'balloons' the drive.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  4. The ball then carries far and still rolls.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  5. Groove depth is limited by the rules; loft does the work.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  6. Launch monitors report it in metres or feet.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  7. A steep descent stops the ball sooner.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  8. Spin rises with loft.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

  9. The apex is the top of the flight.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · recall

  10. Too much backspin makes the drive climb and fall short.

    Source: Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane) · applied

Sources

PGA coaching and general teaching guides, launch-monitor teaching material on ball flight, named books where a phrase is theirs, and the Equipment Rules and Rules of Golf where a number is set there; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Trackman and launch-monitor teaching material (ball-flight laws, D-plane)28
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)11
  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)1