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Golf · Level 4: Intermediate · Sub-level 4.5

Practice That Transfers

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

Practice that carries over to the course: block and random practice, games and skills tests, feedback and focus, and planning.

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 1Block and random practiceTake a test

  1. Good for a new movement, weaker for the course.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  2. It is closer to how a round unfolds.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  3. Repetition feels smooth, but the course never repeats a shot.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  4. Shown by Shea and Morgan in 1979.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  5. Then they move to mixed practice quickly.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  6. For example, pitches of many lengths.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  7. Each course shot has a new lie, distance and target.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  8. The closer to the course, the better the transfer.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · applied

  9. It plays the hole on the range.

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

  10. Random practice changes the task from ball to ball.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · applied

Test 2Practice games and testsTake a test

  1. Repeating it shows progress over time.

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

  2. A score gives every ball a consequence.

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

  3. It mirrors saving par from beside the green.

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

  4. Beating 18 means some chips were holed or saved well.

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

  5. Every break gets practised.

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

  6. Each rung trains a different pace.

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

  7. Pressure in practice prepares for pressure on the course.

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

  8. Each putt goes a step farther.

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

  9. A consequence makes each putt matter.

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

  10. Every side of the hole gets a putt.

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

Test 3Feedback and focusTake a test

  1. Studies find it beats an internal focus on body parts.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  2. Her golf studies are widely cited.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  3. Fading feedback builds the player's own sense.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  4. Small errors are left for the player to sort out.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  5. Good practice is judged by transfer.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  6. One clear change at a time works better.

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

  7. Some studies find it holds up better under pressure.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  8. Feel comes at once; a review comes later.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · applied

  9. One change at a time.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  10. Attention on the outcome, not the body.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · applied

Test 4Planning practiceTake a test

  1. Statistics show where the strokes go.

    Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014) · recall

  2. Broadie's data show the long game explains most of the gap.

    Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014) · recall

  3. Effortful and aimed at a weakness.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  4. A Swedish psychologist working in the USA.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  5. It shows whether practice matches goals.

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

  6. A change that only works without a target is not finished.

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

  7. Spacing beats cramming in most learning research.

    Source: Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching · recall

  8. Plan, practise, then test.

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

  9. End with a game that feels like the course.

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

  10. The tallest bar shows the biggest loss.

    Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014) · applied

Sources

PGA coaching and general teaching guides, named short-game, putting and statistics books (Pelz, Broadie), motor-learning research as used in golf coaching, tour statistics, and the Rules of Golf where a rule is named; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Motor-learning research on practice (Wulf; Ericsson; Shea and Morgan) as used in golf coaching21
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)16
  • Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014)3