How the quiz works

What the quiz is for

The aim is not to rank golfers or to say which personality suits golf. It is to give you a vocabulary for your own tendencies — where you tend to attack, where you tend to fall apart — so you can choose a practice plan and a course strategy that match them.

The four axes

Each axis is measured by 8 questions, in order: questions 1–8 for the first axis, 9–16 for the second, and so on.

The four letters, read in axis order, form your type code — for example STMB.

How answers are scored

Every question offers four options, and each option carries a fixed number of points on that question's axis:

An axis total therefore runs from −16 to +16. A total of +1 or higher gives the first letter of that axis; 0 or lower gives the second. There are no reverse-scored items: the option order itself carries the direction.

Ties always go to the second letter. A total of exactly 0 is not a coin flip — it resolves to the second letter every time, so the same answers always produce the same type.

Scoring is recalculated on the server from your stored answers. Values sent by the browser are not trusted.

How the questions were designed

Questions describe concrete situations on the course and in practice — the choice in front of a hazard, how a round gets reviewed, how practice time gets allocated — rather than asking about personality in the abstract. We referred to general findings from sport and golf psychology when choosing what to ask about, but the questions, the wording, and the scoring are our own.

What we have not validated

• This is not a psychological test and not a medical diagnosis. It has not been through academic validation, and we do not claim reliability or validity figures for it.
• We have not measured test–retest stability. A total near the boundary can flip letters between sittings, which is a property of any threshold, not a defect you need to resolve.
• We have not shown that any type scores better than another, and the type descriptions are editorial, not predictions of performance.
• Compatibility pages are an aid to understanding yourself and the people you play with. They do not predict how a relationship or a round will go.

Using your result

Read the axis with the largest total first — that is where your tendency is strongest and where a matching practice plan pays off most. An axis close to zero is not a flaw; it usually means the situation decides for you, so the useful move there is to decide your rule in advance.

Revision history

• 2026-09-19 — First publication of this page. The scoring described here matches the implementation in use since launch; the questions and points have not changed.

If we change the questions or the scoring, we will record it here.