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Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In match play the winner is the player, or team, with the most points at the end of play.
Bob scores one match point. With the score at four to three, both can potentially win the match on the next hand. 4-3: 6: 121: 100: Alice beats Bob with Bob crossing the skunk line (not skunked) for a simple win. Alice scores one match point. Alice reaches 5 match points and wins the match, beating Bob five match points to three match points. 5-3
A game of cribbage being played. Play proceeds through a succession of "hands", each hand consisting of a "deal", "the play" and "the show". At any time during any of these stages, if a player reaches the target score (usually 121), play ends immediately with that player being the winner of the game.
Rule 8. A play is illegal if it would have the effect (after all steps of the play have been completed) of creating a position that has occurred previously in the game. Though a pass is a kind of "move", it is not a "play". Therefore, Rule 8 never bars a player from passing. One consequence of Rule 8 is the so-called ko rule: Consequence (ko rule).
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Foursomes can also be played in stroke play competitions, with the winners being the team who have taken the fewest strokes to complete a set number of holes. Since 2000 this format has been used with alternating rounds of four-ball by the World Cup of Golf , [ 5 ] and since 2017, again combined with four-ball rounds, by the Zurich Classic on ...
All four golfers play their own balls throughout the round (rather than alternating shots on a single ball); each hole is won by the team whose member has the lowest score. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] This form of golf is commonly played in team golf competitions such as the Ryder Cup , [ 5 ] Solheim Cup , and Presidents Cup .
The match play format fell out of favor in professional individual golf tournaments with the growth of television. The two major match play tournaments in the pre TV era were the PGA Championship, which converted to stroke play format in 1958, [4] and the British PGA Matchplay Championship which faced a slow decline after the introduction of the British PGA Championship in 1955 (which had a ...