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Golf · Level 5: Upper-Intermediate · Sub-level 5.2

Club Selection and Distances

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

Picking the right club: plays-like distances, the set of clubs, choosing between clubs, and distance tools.

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 1Knowing the numbersTake a test

  1. The ball has to fly over it before it lands.

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

  2. Two shots of the same length can play very differently.

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

  3. A rough rule of thumb: one for one.

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

  4. Slope modes must be switched off.

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

  5. Fine in practice, not in a round under the Rules.

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

  6. Front to back, not left to right.

    Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott) · recall

  7. Memory slips when nerves rise.

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

  8. Then pick the club for that number.

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

  9. Loft rises down the list.

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

  10. The ball has to climb, so it lands sooner.

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

Test 2The set of clubsTake a test

  1. A links might call for a driving iron, a parkland for another wedge.

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

  2. The limit is fourteen clubs.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 4.1b · recall

  3. The ball runs a long way on hard ground.

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

  4. It fills the long end of the set.

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

  5. They replace long irons that are hard to get airborne.

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

  6. A big gap forces awkward part swings.

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

  7. A fifth wedge or a utility club can earn the slot instead.

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

  8. Course first, clubs second.

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

  9. Slower speeds favour more lofted woods.

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

  10. A hybrid would fill it.

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

Test 3Choosing between clubsTake a test

  1. Few amateurs fly the ball past the flag.

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

  2. Then short is the safe miss.

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

  3. It also flies lower and spins less.

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

  4. Players often take one less club in big moments.

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

  5. Deep greens can change the club by two or three.

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

  6. A local system, explained on the card or in the clubhouse.

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

  7. Plan the landing spot, not just the finish.

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

  8. Trouble can move the target before the club is chosen.

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

  9. Back flags need the most club.

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

  10. C is at the back of the green.

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

Test 4Distance toolsTake a test

  1. The app turns them into strokes gained figures.

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

  2. A laser needs a clear line to its target.

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

  3. Usually to the centre or the front of the green.

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

  4. Often 100, 150 and 200 to the middle of the green.

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

  5. Deane Beman is said to have shown him the idea.

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

  6. Hence the slope modes used in practice.

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

  7. Allowed by default since 2019.

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

  8. Books from the 1970s, lasers from the late 1990s, phone apps from the 2000s.

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

  9. The reading is only the start.

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

  10. A is farthest from the green.

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

Sources

PGA coaching and course-management teaching (DECADE, VISION54), strokes-gained research (Broadie), short-game counts (Pelz), tour statistics, course-architecture references, and the Rules of Golf where a rule is named; original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)21
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)15
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 4.3a2
  • Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott)1
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 4.1b1