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Golf · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.4

Designing a Lesson

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

Building a lesson: structure and objectives, demonstration and explanation, feedback, and session plans.

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 1Lesson structureTake a test

  1. Clear objectives keep a lesson on track.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. Less is more in a lesson.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. It also lowers the risk of injury.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. Ask the player to explain it back.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. It links one lesson to the next.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  6. The plan may change from the answer.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. Confidence carries into practice.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  8. Review, aim, practise, check.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  9. Most of the time goes on doing.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

  10. The biggest slice is practice.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

Test 2Demonstration and explanationTake a test

  1. Seeing comes before doing.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. Studied by Albert Bandura.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. One picture can replace many instructions.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. It describes the feel, not the mechanics.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. Simple words, clear pictures.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  6. Side by side shows the gap.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. A classic teaching sequence.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  8. Doing is where learning happens.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

  9. Whole, then part, then whole.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  10. Ball position shows face-on, posture down the line.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

Test 3Feedback in lessonsTake a test

  1. Where the ball went.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. How the swing moved.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. It keeps a correction from feeling harsh.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. On the course, the coach is not there.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. It shows trends rather than single shots.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  6. Name the action, not just the result.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. The player learns to rely on their own sense.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  8. The player speaks first.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  9. Feedback fades as skill grows.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

  10. Performance is about the movement.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

Test 4Session plansTake a test

  1. Aims, activities, timings and safety.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  2. Keeps the challenge right.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  3. Success first, then challenge.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  4. One task, several versions.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  5. Written before the session.

    Source: Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies) · recall

  6. 'The player will chip to within two metres' is clear.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  7. Plans get better with each review.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  8. Outcome first.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · recall

  9. Change one thing at a time.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · applied

  10. Harder as the player improves.

    Source: Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs) · 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.

  • Coaching science and coach-education texts (PGA coach education; Newell; Mosston; Schön; Gibbs)39
  • Safeguarding and coach codes of conduct (PGA and national golf bodies)1