PGA PGM LEVEL 3 3.0 EXAMINATION 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is food cost control? - ✔✔Management and procedures to regulate costs
✔✔What is the most important consideration when forecasting number of staff and
scheduling? - ✔✔Provide the service, minimal payroll
✔✔Which condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - ✔✔Cognitive
hypothesis
✔✔What is an effective means to help a beginner use motor imagery to improve? -
✔✔Combine with physical performance
✔✔What optimizes performance when combining mental and physical practice? -
✔✔Recall past shots, execute prior memory
✔✔What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - ✔✔Same/similar conditions
✔✔What approach is recommended to optimize learning transfer of a golf skill? -
✔✔Transfer skill at similar level in transfer learning
✔✔What are two major ways to structure swing change movements through rehearsal?
- ✔✔Skills practice and transfer practice
✔✔What should a coach do when a student gets mad a swing change does not work? -
✔✔Accept blame, remind them they agreed to it
✔✔What step in pre shot routine is helpful to a player who wants to trust their swing? -
✔✔Positive self-talk
✔✔What are the benefits of an effective pre shot routine? - ✔✔Stay in the present,
prepare, manage emotions
✔✔What is recommended immediately after a poor shot is hit? - ✔✔Identify the flaw
✔✔What pre shot routine problem could cause a poor shot outcome? - ✔✔Lie,
distance, club
✔✔How should players use the post shot routine to achieve focus on playing the game?
- ✔✔Accept it, ask why
, ✔✔Why is it important to have similarly skilled players in group instruction? - ✔✔More
likely to benefit
✔✔How should teachers respond to lessons getting off track? - ✔✔Accommodate
changes and meet challenges
✔✔What is the purpose of golf instruction from a long-term lesson plan? - ✔✔Goals that
translate to performance
✔✔What role should technology play with ball flight while teaching a lesson? - ✔✔Assist
in identifying the error
✔✔How can a teacher use technology to help identify losing the lag too soon? - ✔✔3D
pressure plates
✔✔What data describes the launch of the ball? - ✔✔Spin axis, spin rate, launch,
direction, speed, smash
✔✔Which analytic technique pays the biggest dividend in improving teaching? -
✔✔Systematic observation
✔✔What do routines allow teachers to focus on in the lesson? - ✔✔Fewer decisions
and focus on learning
✔✔What is overlooked by teaching pros when building a teaching business? - ✔✔The
value of their teaching program
✔✔What is the difference between a family with small kids and an electronic user? -
✔✔Growing the teaching business, promote yourself
✔✔What is the most beneficial in helping the teacher determine the starting point for on
course instruction with an experienced student? - ✔✔Skill level, blanks in their game
✔✔What lie should the suspension point be constant? - ✔✔Ball below feet
✔✔What is the anticipated result of an effective fitting? - ✔✔Match the clubs to the
player, eliminate ball flight variable
✔✔How should the complexity of the task be handled if the performer is learning
something new? - ✔✔Simple, then add more complexity
✔✔What element of the performance system describes the job task? - ✔✔Performance
expectations
QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔What is food cost control? - ✔✔Management and procedures to regulate costs
✔✔What is the most important consideration when forecasting number of staff and
scheduling? - ✔✔Provide the service, minimal payroll
✔✔Which condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - ✔✔Cognitive
hypothesis
✔✔What is an effective means to help a beginner use motor imagery to improve? -
✔✔Combine with physical performance
✔✔What optimizes performance when combining mental and physical practice? -
✔✔Recall past shots, execute prior memory
✔✔What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - ✔✔Same/similar conditions
✔✔What approach is recommended to optimize learning transfer of a golf skill? -
✔✔Transfer skill at similar level in transfer learning
✔✔What are two major ways to structure swing change movements through rehearsal?
- ✔✔Skills practice and transfer practice
✔✔What should a coach do when a student gets mad a swing change does not work? -
✔✔Accept blame, remind them they agreed to it
✔✔What step in pre shot routine is helpful to a player who wants to trust their swing? -
✔✔Positive self-talk
✔✔What are the benefits of an effective pre shot routine? - ✔✔Stay in the present,
prepare, manage emotions
✔✔What is recommended immediately after a poor shot is hit? - ✔✔Identify the flaw
✔✔What pre shot routine problem could cause a poor shot outcome? - ✔✔Lie,
distance, club
✔✔How should players use the post shot routine to achieve focus on playing the game?
- ✔✔Accept it, ask why
, ✔✔Why is it important to have similarly skilled players in group instruction? - ✔✔More
likely to benefit
✔✔How should teachers respond to lessons getting off track? - ✔✔Accommodate
changes and meet challenges
✔✔What is the purpose of golf instruction from a long-term lesson plan? - ✔✔Goals that
translate to performance
✔✔What role should technology play with ball flight while teaching a lesson? - ✔✔Assist
in identifying the error
✔✔How can a teacher use technology to help identify losing the lag too soon? - ✔✔3D
pressure plates
✔✔What data describes the launch of the ball? - ✔✔Spin axis, spin rate, launch,
direction, speed, smash
✔✔Which analytic technique pays the biggest dividend in improving teaching? -
✔✔Systematic observation
✔✔What do routines allow teachers to focus on in the lesson? - ✔✔Fewer decisions
and focus on learning
✔✔What is overlooked by teaching pros when building a teaching business? - ✔✔The
value of their teaching program
✔✔What is the difference between a family with small kids and an electronic user? -
✔✔Growing the teaching business, promote yourself
✔✔What is the most beneficial in helping the teacher determine the starting point for on
course instruction with an experienced student? - ✔✔Skill level, blanks in their game
✔✔What lie should the suspension point be constant? - ✔✔Ball below feet
✔✔What is the anticipated result of an effective fitting? - ✔✔Match the clubs to the
player, eliminate ball flight variable
✔✔How should the complexity of the task be handled if the performer is learning
something new? - ✔✔Simple, then add more complexity
✔✔What element of the performance system describes the job task? - ✔✔Performance
expectations
