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Golf · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.3

Coaching Adults

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

Coaching adults: how adults learn, older golfers, inclusive coaching for players with disabilities, and women and girls in golf.

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 1Adult learnersTake a test

  1. A key idea of adult learning theory.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  2. He set out how adults differ from children as learners.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  3. Coaches build on both.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  4. A change has to beat years of repetition.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  5. A safe setting helps learning.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  6. Small successes build commitment.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  7. Coaching can serve these aims.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  8. Contact before everything else.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  9. Bigger groups cost less per player.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · applied

  10. Players also learn from each other.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · applied

Test 2Older golfersTake a test

  1. The swing fits the body, not the other way round.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  2. Jack Nicklaus used it throughout his career.

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

  3. Graphite shafts and lighter heads help.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  4. Some positions are not available to every body.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  5. Less squeezing is needed to hold the club.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  6. Balance also protects against falls.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  7. Gradual is the key word.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  8. Fit the swing to the body.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  9. Low, deep weight helps slow speeds.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · applied

  10. It frees the hips to turn.

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

Test 3Inclusive coachingTake a test

  1. The session fits the players.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  2. Change one element to include more players.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  3. It runs events and coach education.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  4. Covering, for example, blind and wheelchair golfers.

    Source: The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 25 · recall

  5. It lifts the player into a standing or seated stance.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  6. Adaptations are found together.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  7. Run by The R&A and the USGA with EDGA.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  8. The letters spell the order.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  9. The player is part of the planning.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  10. It opens the game to more players.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · applied

Test 4Women and girlsTake a test

  1. Launched in 2018.

    Source: The R&A, Women in Golf Charter · recall

  2. Comfort helps people stay in the game.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  3. An Olympic champion in athletics before golf.

    Source: LPGA history · recall

  4. Europe's main professional women's tour.

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

  5. Visibility helps participation.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  6. Small changes can remove barriers.

    Source: The R&A, Women in Golf Charter · recall

  7. After a vote of the members in 2014.

    Source: The R&A, membership history · recall

  8. The aim is a path into the club.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · recall

  9. 1950, 1978 and 2015.

    Source: LPGA, LET and R&A histories · applied

  10. Length, weight and flex fit typical swing speeds.

    Source: Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA) · applied

Sources

Coach-education texts and coaching science (Newell, Mosston, Schön, Gibbs, Knowles, Balyi), safeguarding codes of national golf bodies, periodisation and load-monitoring texts, and organisation histories (R&A, LPGA, LET, EDGA); original questions authored, nothing reproduced.

  • Adult learning (Malcolm Knowles, andragogy) and coaching older and disabled golfers (EDGA)31
  • General golf instruction (PGA coaching and teaching guides)2
  • The R&A, Women in Golf Charter2
  • The R&A and USGA, Rules of Golf 2023, Rule 251
  • LPGA history1
  • General golf reference (club, teaching and course guides)1
  • The R&A, membership history1
  • LPGA, LET and R&A histories1