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Golf · Level 5: Upper-Intermediate · Sub-level 5.4

Strategy Off the Tee

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

Planning the tee shot: the value of length, doglegs and angles, hazards from the tee, and par 3s.

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 1Driver or notTake a test

  1. A wedge from rough beats a long iron from fairway on average.

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

  2. Made popular by long hitters in the 2000s.

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

  3. Then a shorter club takes the hazard out of play.

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

  4. Total distance matters less when carrying trouble.

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

  5. Architects often put bunkers there.

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

  6. A long drive can roll through into trouble.

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

  7. Leaving a full wedge rather than a tricky pitch.

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

  8. Each club leaves a longer approach.

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

  9. Where the fairway runs out decides the club.

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

  10. Architects defend it with bunkers.

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

Test 2Doglegs and anglesTake a test

  1. The shape matches the hole.

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

  2. Shorter, but with more risk.

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

  3. The cost is a longer approach.

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

  4. Some angles open up the flag, others bring in bunkers.

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

  5. From the left the approach comes in away from the bunker.

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

  6. The more you bite off, the shorter the hole.

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

  7. The bend leaves no fairway ahead.

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

  8. The inside is shorter but riskier.

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

  9. Two numbers bracket the choice.

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

  10. A goes over the corner.

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

Test 3Hazards from the teeTake a test

  1. Plan on a normal strike, not a perfect one.

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

  2. Allow for the usual curve too.

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

  3. Length is given up for safety.

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

  4. Aim so the usual miss goes there.

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

  5. Deep rough often means a wedge out.

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

  6. Leave a favourite distance.

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

  7. Out of bounds means stroke and distance.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rules 17 and 18 · recall

  8. Out of bounds costs stroke and distance.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rules 17 and 18 · applied

  9. The margin covers a less than perfect strike.

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

  10. Clear the water first.

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

Test 4Par 3sTake a test

  1. Just above the grass is enough for an iron.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 6.2b · recall

  2. Short is the costly miss there.

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

  3. A tour pro's odds are far shorter.

    Source: National Hole-in-One Registry (USA) · recall

  4. Named after the 15th at North Berwick.

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

  5. One of the shortest holes in Open golf.

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

  6. Then it is a single putt.

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

  7. A flat stance helps a clean strike.

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

  8. Roughly 112, 125 and 141 metres.

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

  9. Teeing up comes after the club choice.

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

  10. The island green of the Players Championship.

    Source: Golf course architecture references (template holes of Macdonald and Raynor; famous holes) · 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)21
  • Golf course architecture references (template holes of Macdonald and Raynor; famous holes)8
  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)4
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)2
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rules 17 and 182
  • Mark Broadie, Every Shot Counts (2014)1
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 6.2b1
  • National Hole-in-One Registry (USA)1