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Amateur, which began in 1895 as a match-play event, switched to stroke play in 1965.
Can We Have More Match Play? John Paul Newport 2010
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The match-play format, in which players compete hole by hole instead of adding up their cumulative strokes over a round, is by far the dominant style of golf played recreationally in the U.S. and around the world.
Can We Have More Match Play? John Paul Newport 2010
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After a two-year, $20 million campaign, five European countries will find out Tuesday which of them will stage the biennial match-play tournament between Europe and the U.S. when it is held on mainland Europe for only the second time.
Europe Sets Course For 2018 Richard Gillis 2011
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The Tour administers two match-play events, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship in February and the biennial Presidents Cup, but the rest are stroke-play events with easier-to-schedule outcomes (weather being the only wild card).
Can We Have More Match Play? John Paul Newport 2010
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He will need whatever help he can get in his first-round match against Cink, whose form has dipped since his 2009 Open championship victory at Turnberry but who has always been a formidable match-play opponent.
Slighted Ian Poulter shows no alarm at his early start in Arizona 2011
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The singles matches are standard match-play competition between two golfers.
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The new world No. 3 won this event in 2006 and lost by one shot to Ernie Els on his last visit here in 2008, but gamblers shouldn't underestimate the toll that six rounds of match-play golf will have taken on him: Donald is available at around 15/1 on Betdaq.
Tip of the Day 2011
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European Pressphoto Agency Tiger Woods This is golf's biggest annual match-play tournament, a head-to-head single elimination knockout in which 64 players compete hole by hole.
Tip of the Day 2011
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The Ryder Cup is composed of 28 18-hole matches - eight foresomes, eight fourballs and 12 singles - all in a match-play format.
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Golf Association eliminate most of the differences between match-play and stroke-play rules.
Can We Have More Match Play? John Paul Newport 2010
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