Label Parts of the Golf Course – Worksheet With a Key

All 10 parts on the diagram

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Start here: 6 main parts 6

Teeing area Where each hole begins. The first shot is played from here, often off a small peg. It is also called the tee box.
Fairway The strip of short-cut grass between the tee and the green. The best place to play from.
Rough The longer, coarser grass either side of the fairway. Harder to play from.
Putting green The area of very short grass round the hole. The ball is putted here.
Flagstick The pole with a flag that stands in the hole. It shows where the hole is. It is also called the pin.
Hole The hole in the green, also called the cup. It is 108 mm (4.25 in) across and at least 10 cm (4 in) deep, and is usually moved to a new place each day.

Edges and hazards: 4 4

Fringe The slightly longer grass round the green. It slows balls rolling off the green. It is also called the apron or collar.
Bunkers Hollows filled with sand. One is at the outside of the bend of the fairway and one beside the green. They are also called sand traps.
Penalty area A hazard such as a pond, stream or lake. Also called a water hazard. A ball that cannot be played from it usually costs a penalty stroke.
Out of bounds The area beyond the course's boundary, marked here by stakes. A ball that goes there cannot be played from where it lies.

How this list was compiled: Read 2026-09-27. Wikipedia, Golf course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golf_course : each hole has a tee box (teeing area), a fairway, hazards such as the rough, and a green with a cylindrical hole, the cup, holding a flagstick or pin; its labelled course figure names the teeing area, penalty area, rough, out of bounds, fairway bunker, fairway, putting green, flagstick and hole; the fringe of longer grass round the green slows balls; the rough is cut higher and coarser; the hole must be 108 mm across and at least 10 cm deep, its position usually changed daily; doglegs. Wikipedia, Golf bunkers and penalty areas: bunkers (sand traps) and penalty areas (water hazards: rivers, streams, lakes and ponds); a ball that cannot be played from a hazard is generally played from elsewhere with a penalty of one stroke. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-05 by script. Own geometry, nothing traced: one made-up dogleg hole from above, with trees, stakes and the flag drawn upright as a picture map draws them, and the hole cut through from the side. The labelled course figure in Wikipedia's Golf course article (Golf field.svg, Toto-tarou and others, CC BY-SA 3.0) was looked at for the kinds of thing a hole shows, not copied. Not to scale, no real course. Licence: own work

How it works

To label the parts of a golf course, write a name on the line for each number. Nine numbers are on one hole drawn from above, with the tee at the bottom. Number 6 is on the side view underneath.

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Golf course worksheet word bank

In alphabetical order, to copy onto the board: bunkers, fairway, flagstick, fringe, hole, out of bounds, penalty area, putting green, rough, teeing area.

Numbers that get swapped

4 is the smooth oval at the top (putting green) and 7 the narrow band around it (fringe). 5 is the pole with the flag (flagstick); 6, on the side view, is what it stands in (hole). 2 is the smooth strip up the middle (fairway) and 3 the tufted grass beside it (rough). 8 is sand (bunkers) and 9 water (penalty area). 10 lies past the row of stakes (out of bounds).

When marking, tee box is right on line 1, pin on line 5 and cup on line 6.
Also right: apron on line 7, sand traps on line 8 and water hazard on line 9.

Questions and answers

What is a penalty area in golf?

A marked area, usually water such as a stream, lake or pond, where balls are often lost. It used to be called a water hazard. A ball that cannot be played from it is played from somewhere else, generally for one penalty stroke.

What do red and yellow stakes mean on a golf course?

They mark penalty areas. Yellow stakes usually mark one that crosses the fairway, so the player has to hit over it, like the creek on this sheet. Red stakes usually mark one that runs along the side of the hole.

What is the difference between a fairway bunker and a greenside bunker?

Where it sits. A fairway bunker lies beside or in the fairway and gathers tee shots that go astray. A greenside bunker lies next to the putting green. This sheet has one of each, and number 8 covers both.

Why does a golf hole have more than one tee?

To change how hard the hole plays. A hole typically has more than one tee box, each a different distance from the green. Two markers on each show where the ball is teed up.

Does the golf course worksheet have an answer key?

Yes. The answer key prints the same drawing with the ten names on their numbered lines, from teeing area to out of bounds.