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 SCORING, MATCH PLAY
When using match play competition format, results are expressed using a traditional convention which works as follows:
Unlike stroke play (medal play) match play involves winning, losing or drawing a hole regardless of how many margin strokes pad the victory. Let's take two golfers who have equivalent handicaps. If Sue shoots a 4 on the first hole and Wendy shoots 7 because she lost her ball in the water hazard, Sue wins the hole. But Sue only gets credit for having won a single hole. I.e., it makes no difference that she bested Wendy by three strokes on the hole.
That's the nature of Match Play.
Now if Wendy birdies the second hole while Sue pars it, Wendy and Sue are then "all square", meaning that each has won precisely one hole and neither has the advantage entering the third hole.
Any holes in which both competitors shoot the same score are ignored.
So Sue and Wendy keep playing. Sue is having a great day putting and Wendy is struggling so much that after holing out on the fifteenth green Sue is ahead by four holes.
The match has just ended.
Sue leads the match by four holes. Yet there are only three more holes remaining to play: 16, 17 and 18. Even if Wendy won all three of the remaining holes, she could not catch up to Sue.
The match ends before teeing off on Hole 16. Sue wins and the outcome is expressed as "Four and three" which is shorthand for saying "Sue is up by four holes with three remaining to play."
Supposing Sue was up by four holes entering Hole 15? So she is ahead by four holes with precisely four holes remaining to be played.
Sue is said to be "Dormie". This means there is no possible way for Sue to lose the match... but Sue has not yet clinched the victory.
Sue and Wendy would still play because no matter how remote, there remains a chance Wendy can win the four remaining holes and draw the match overall.
But if Sue shoots a better score than Wendy on Hole 15 in this case, Sue would then be ahead by five holes with just three remaining. That would be expressed as "Five and three".
When the difference between the first number (5) and the second number (3) is two, it means that Sue won the last hole played before the match was declared over.
In Match Play, it is possible to see "four and three" or "five and three". But you cannot see "six and three" because the match would have stopped on the 14th hole rather than the 15th.
If a match requires playing all eighteen holes to determine the victor, then the final margin is expressed using a different convention.
Let's say Sue is one hole ahead of Wendy after completing seventeen holes, the following outcomes are possible:
a) If Wendy wins Hole 18, then the match finishes in a draw.
b) If Wendy shoots the same score as Sue on Hole 18, then Sue wins the match "1-up"
c) If Sue beats Wendy on Hole 18, then Sue wins the match "2-up"
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Click here to learn how to apply handicaps to Match Play.
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