PGA LEVEL 3 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What should be included in Long term player development planning? - ✔✔Written
programs, purpose and goals, key skills, knowledge
✔✔What is the purpose of golf instruction from the standpoint of long-term lesson
planning? - ✔✔Improve performance
✔✔What is the difference between a lesson plan and a long-term developmental plan? -
✔✔Long term over multiple lessons
✔✔How does the PGA define the elite player for purposes of developing a long-term
player development plan? - ✔✔Someone that is competitive at a high level. Playing on
high school or college golf teams, in highly competitive junior tournaments or near or
below a scratch handicap.
✔✔What is often challenged when teaching a player with a disability or injury? - ✔✔Pre-
concluded notions
✔✔What is the best course of action if a teacher is unsure of what to say to a player
who has a disability or injury? - ✔✔Ask the student for advice
✔✔What should an instructor do when teaching someone who has lost a limb? -
✔✔Learn to hit shots emulating disability
✔✔What is the cognitive rehearsal of a physical activity in the absence of any
observable muscular movement? - ✔✔Mental practice
✔✔What is a conscious experience in which a player uses all her senses to create or
re-create the execution of a motor skill in the players mind? - ✔✔Motor imagery
✔✔The student Relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is unable to learn from
a face-on video of her swing? - ✔✔Internal
✔✔A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is able to learn from a
face-on video of her swing - ✔✔External
✔✔What is the definition of modeling when used for teaching and coaching? -
✔✔Observation learning, used in demonstration
✔✔When is mental practice and motor imagery most effective? - ✔✔In conjunction with
physical practice
, ✔✔What is the best way for beginners to improve shot performance? - ✔✔Five step
strategy (get ready/mental, concentrate, execute, evaluate)
✔✔What condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - ✔✔Cognitive hypothesis
✔✔Based on research, at what speed should a skill be mentally rehearsed prior to
actual performance? - ✔✔About same speed as skill
✔✔What is an effective means of helping a beginner to use motor imagery to improve
performance? - ✔✔Combined with physical performance
✔✔What situation justifies substituting mental practice for physical practice? - ✔✔When
physical isn't able to be used. (Rehab)
✔✔What is an example of form focus of attention? - ✔✔Stance, Ball position, posture
✔✔What is an example of retroactive transfer? - ✔✔Subsequent learning of a skill
affects ability to perform previous acquired skill. Reverting back to their old swing.
✔✔What is the influence of a previous skill on the current skill to be learned regardless
of whether the influence is positive or negative? - ✔✔Proactive transfer
✔✔Addison has acquired a new student who previously played ice hockey. During the
opening interview, Addison asks questions to find out ways he can take advantage of
previous learning, what skills to teach, and what order to teach them. This is an
example of what learning transfer concept? - ✔✔Proactive transfer
✔✔What determines the transfer of golf skill learning? - ✔✔Time, structural similarity,
skills and goals, skill level
✔✔What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - ✔✔Same/similar conditions,
same/similar skills
✔✔What term is used to describe transferring a skill of a 20 foot chip onto a practice
green to a 50 foot chip on the same practice green? - ✔✔Response generalization
✔✔What term is used to describe learning the skill of putting on a practice green and
effectively transferring to various greens on the golf course? - ✔✔Stimulus
generalization
2025/2026 ALL GRADED A+
✔✔What should be included in Long term player development planning? - ✔✔Written
programs, purpose and goals, key skills, knowledge
✔✔What is the purpose of golf instruction from the standpoint of long-term lesson
planning? - ✔✔Improve performance
✔✔What is the difference between a lesson plan and a long-term developmental plan? -
✔✔Long term over multiple lessons
✔✔How does the PGA define the elite player for purposes of developing a long-term
player development plan? - ✔✔Someone that is competitive at a high level. Playing on
high school or college golf teams, in highly competitive junior tournaments or near or
below a scratch handicap.
✔✔What is often challenged when teaching a player with a disability or injury? - ✔✔Pre-
concluded notions
✔✔What is the best course of action if a teacher is unsure of what to say to a player
who has a disability or injury? - ✔✔Ask the student for advice
✔✔What should an instructor do when teaching someone who has lost a limb? -
✔✔Learn to hit shots emulating disability
✔✔What is the cognitive rehearsal of a physical activity in the absence of any
observable muscular movement? - ✔✔Mental practice
✔✔What is a conscious experience in which a player uses all her senses to create or
re-create the execution of a motor skill in the players mind? - ✔✔Motor imagery
✔✔The student Relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is unable to learn from
a face-on video of her swing? - ✔✔Internal
✔✔A student relates primarily to which type of imagery if she is able to learn from a
face-on video of her swing - ✔✔External
✔✔What is the definition of modeling when used for teaching and coaching? -
✔✔Observation learning, used in demonstration
✔✔When is mental practice and motor imagery most effective? - ✔✔In conjunction with
physical practice
, ✔✔What is the best way for beginners to improve shot performance? - ✔✔Five step
strategy (get ready/mental, concentrate, execute, evaluate)
✔✔What condition enhances the benefits of mental practice? - ✔✔Cognitive hypothesis
✔✔Based on research, at what speed should a skill be mentally rehearsed prior to
actual performance? - ✔✔About same speed as skill
✔✔What is an effective means of helping a beginner to use motor imagery to improve
performance? - ✔✔Combined with physical performance
✔✔What situation justifies substituting mental practice for physical practice? - ✔✔When
physical isn't able to be used. (Rehab)
✔✔What is an example of form focus of attention? - ✔✔Stance, Ball position, posture
✔✔What is an example of retroactive transfer? - ✔✔Subsequent learning of a skill
affects ability to perform previous acquired skill. Reverting back to their old swing.
✔✔What is the influence of a previous skill on the current skill to be learned regardless
of whether the influence is positive or negative? - ✔✔Proactive transfer
✔✔Addison has acquired a new student who previously played ice hockey. During the
opening interview, Addison asks questions to find out ways he can take advantage of
previous learning, what skills to teach, and what order to teach them. This is an
example of what learning transfer concept? - ✔✔Proactive transfer
✔✔What determines the transfer of golf skill learning? - ✔✔Time, structural similarity,
skills and goals, skill level
✔✔What conditions lead to greater learning transfer? - ✔✔Same/similar conditions,
same/similar skills
✔✔What term is used to describe transferring a skill of a 20 foot chip onto a practice
green to a 50 foot chip on the same practice green? - ✔✔Response generalization
✔✔What term is used to describe learning the skill of putting on a practice green and
effectively transferring to various greens on the golf course? - ✔✔Stimulus
generalization
