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Match Play Summary |
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Match
Play is extremely simple - golfers compete
to win individual holes, and the player who
wins the most holes wins the match. |
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Match Play Scoring |
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Win
a hole, that's one for you; lose a hole, that's
one for your opponent. Ties essentially don't
count and they aren't kept track of in the
scorekeeping. |
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Don't
Get Hung Up on the Terminology |
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Let's
say you've won 4 holes and your opponent has
won 3. The score is not shown as 4 to 3; rather,
it's rendered as 1-up for you, or 1-down for
your opponent. If you have won 5 holes and
your opponent 2, then you are leading 3-up,
and your opponent is trailing 3-down. If the
match is tied, it is said to be "all
square." |
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More Links About Match
Play |
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What
do the final scores mean? |
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What
are some Match Play strategies? |
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How
the Match Play Ladder Works |
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Other
Frequently Asked Questions |
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Handicap
scoring |
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You allocate strokes based on handicaps ONLY
for the Intermediate and Advanced divisions.
Therefore, beginners play straight up and
do not need to worry about allocating strokes. |
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Say Jack and Sally are going head-to-head
in Match Play. Jack has a course handicap
of 15 and Sally has a course handicap of 11. |
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The
Wrong Way |
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Contrary
to the practice of many golfers, Jack does
NOT receive strokes on the 15 highest-ranked
handicap holes while Sally receives strokes
on 11. |
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The
Correct Way |
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The correct way to allocate storkes in one-on-one
Match Play is to subtract the lower handicap
from
the higher, then assign the difference to
the weaker player. In our our example, Sally's
11 issubtracted from Jack's 15, leaving 4.
Jack now receives strokes on the top 4 handicap
holes, while Sally plays from scratch. |
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