Week 6: Quiz – Design Your Hole
Stage 1: Discover & Play · Golf Course Design
Week 6 — Design Your Hole
Review questions covering the lessons above. Read each question aloud and discuss before selecting an answer.
Correct answers are shown in stone brown. Use this as a review and discussion tool.
Question 1
What is the most important element of a successful golf hole design?
- ○ That it looks exactly like a famous hole
- ✓ That it creates a genuine decision point where players of different abilities must choose between a safe and a risky route
- ○ That it is as long as possible
Question 2
What does ‘context’ mean in golf course design?
- ○ The difficulty rating of the course
- ✓ How a hole fits into the course as a whole — responding to the natural terrain, connecting logically to adjacent holes, and contributing to the course’s overall character and variety
- ○ The type of grass used
Question 3
What is the difference between a drawing and a design?
- ○ A drawing is bigger
- ✓ A drawing records what something looks like; a design communicates intention — why the hole is shaped the way it is, what it asks of the player, and how it responds to the land
- ○ A drawing requires a computer