# Course Management · Golf Level 5: Upper-Intermediate

Golf · Level 5: Upper-Intermediate · Insporta Book (https://book.insporta.app/golf/level-5/course-management/)

Course Management in Golf (Level 5: Upper-Intermediate) on Insporta: 40 sourced facts behind 4 tests. Covers: game plans; risk and reward; and more.

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

## Test 1: Game plans

- Made before the round, kept to during it. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Work out where to putt from, then how to get there. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- It may not be the most exciting option. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- A bogey can be a par for a high handicapper. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Usually away from water or out of bounds. (Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides))
- Caddies add their own notes in practice rounds. (Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides))
- A favourite wedge distance is a common example. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Start at the hole, end at the tee. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- The plan comes before the score goal. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Missing right still leaves a chip. (Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides))

## Test 2: Risk and reward

- Short par 4s and reachable par 5s are typical. (Source: Golf course architecture references (template holes of Macdonald and Raynor; famous holes))
- Good choices lower the average, not the best case. (Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014))
- It trades distance for safety. (Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides))
- In-between distances are hard to control. (Source: Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (1999))
- In stroke play every shot counts to the total. (Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 3.1)
- Halving holes no longer helps. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Plan for the usual shot, not the best one. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- A full swing is the most repeatable. (Source: Dave Pelz, Dave Pelz's Short Game Bible (1999))
- The lie comes first: a bad one ends the debate. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Short of the trouble, set up for the next shot. (Source: General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides))

## Test 3: Shot patterns and stats

- Every club has its own pattern. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Aim so most of the pattern stays safe. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- It uses tour data to pick targets. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- It leaves two putts for par. (Source: PGA Tour statistics glossary and season averages)
- A miss in light rough and one in trees count the same. (Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014))
- Feel and memory both mislead. (Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014))
- Little green to chip to makes par hard. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Stats lead to a practice plan. (Source: Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014))
- The further from trouble, the safer. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Aim the pattern, not one perfect shot. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))

## Test 4: Decisions and commitment

- Doubt in the swing costs more than a slightly wrong club. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Safety comes from the target, not from a timid swing. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Chasing is how one bad hole becomes three. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Then the player steps into the Play Box to swing. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Coaches of Annika Sorenstam among others. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Past and future holes are left alone. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Usually after a good run of holes. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Stepping over the line means the thinking is done. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Acceptance comes before the reset. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))
- Think Box behind, Play Box in front. (Source: Course-management teaching (PGA guides; DECADE, Scott Fawcett; VISION54, Nilsson and Marriott))

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.

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