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Golf · Level 8: Expert · Sub-level 8.5

Planning a Season

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

Planning a year of golf: periodisation, scheduling events, monitoring load and form, and the team round the player.

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 1PeriodisationTake a test

  1. Each phase has its own focus.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  2. Split into mesocycles and microcycles.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  3. For example, a strength block in winter.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  4. Built round events and rest days.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  5. Changes need time away from competition.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  6. New moves need time to bed in.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  7. Training load drops to keep players fresh.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  8. A year, some weeks, about a week.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  9. Then the cycle starts again.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  10. Away from events, with time to rebuild.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

Test 2Scheduling eventsTake a test

  1. Training is planned backwards from them.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  2. Rest weeks keep form fresh.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  3. Played before a target event.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  4. Long trips need recovery days.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  5. Handicap limits and qualifying are common.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  6. Plans are guides, not contracts.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  7. Scheduling is a skill on tour.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  8. Plan around the target events.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

  9. Targets first.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  10. Everything else is planned round them.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

Test 3MonitoringTake a test

  1. Same test, same conditions, each time.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  2. Volume times intensity.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  3. Form falls instead of rising.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  4. Also tiredness and low mood.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  5. Borg's scale of how hard a session felt.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  6. Sleep is the cheapest recovery tool.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  7. Flags problems before they grow.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  8. Data, then conversation, then action.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  9. Higher numbers mean harder sessions.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

  10. Load needs recovery to turn into form.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

Test 4The support teamTake a test

  1. Each expert covers one area.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  2. One plan, many voices.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  3. Each member has a clear role.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  4. Working on the mental side.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  5. Keeping the body able to swing.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  6. Four-hour rounds and travel test energy.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  7. The team serves the player.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  8. Ends with clear owners.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · recall

  9. The caddie walks every hole.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · applied

  10. Coach, caddie, physio and more.

    Source: Periodisation and training-load monitoring texts (Matveyev; Bompa; Borg RPE) · 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.

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