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Golf · Level 5: Upper-Intermediate · Sub-level 5.1

Course Management

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

Planning a round: game plans, risk and reward, shot patterns and statistics, and the decisions and commitment behind each shot.

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 1Game plansTake a test

  1. Made before the round, kept to during it.

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

  2. Work out where to putt from, then how to get there.

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

  3. It may not be the most exciting option.

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

  4. A bogey can be a par for a high handicapper.

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

  5. Usually away from water or out of bounds.

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

  6. Caddies add their own notes in practice rounds.

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

  7. A favourite wedge distance is a common example.

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

  8. Start at the hole, end at the tee.

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

  9. The plan comes before the score goal.

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

  10. Missing right still leaves a chip.

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

Test 2Risk and rewardTake a test

  1. Short par 4s and reachable par 5s are typical.

    Source: Golf course architecture references (template holes of Macdonald and Raynor; famous holes) · recall

  2. Good choices lower the average, not the best case.

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

  3. It trades distance for safety.

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

  4. In-between distances are hard to control.

    Source: Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (1999) · recall

  5. In stroke play every shot counts to the total.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 3.1 · applied

  6. Halving holes no longer helps.

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

  7. Plan for the usual shot, not the best one.

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

  8. A full swing is the most repeatable.

    Source: Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (1999) · applied

  9. The lie comes first: a bad one ends the debate.

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

  10. Short of the trouble, set up for the next shot.

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

Test 3Shot patterns and statsTake a test

  1. Every club has its own pattern.

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

  2. Aim so most of the pattern stays safe.

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

  3. It uses tour data to pick targets.

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

  4. It leaves two putts for par.

    Source: PGA Tour statistics glossary and season averages · recall

  5. A miss in light rough and one in trees count the same.

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

  6. Feel and memory both mislead.

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

  7. Little green to chip to makes par hard.

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

  8. Stats lead to a practice plan.

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

  9. The further from trouble, the safer.

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

  10. Aim the pattern, not one perfect shot.

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

Test 4Decisions and commitmentTake a test

  1. Doubt in the swing costs more than a slightly wrong club.

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

  2. Safety comes from the target, not from a timid swing.

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

  3. Chasing is how one bad hole becomes three.

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

  4. Then the player steps into the Play Box to swing.

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

  5. Coaches of Annika Sorenstam among others.

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

  6. Past and future holes are left alone.

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

  7. Usually after a good run of holes.

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

  8. Stepping over the line means the thinking is done.

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

  9. Acceptance comes before the reset.

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

  10. Think Box behind, Play Box in front.

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

  • Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott)26
  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)5
  • Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014)4
  • Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (1999)2
  • Golf course architecture references (template holes of Macdonald and Raynor; famous holes)1
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 3.11
  • PGA Tour statistics glossary and season averages1