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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A form of team competition in golf in which the best individual score on a hole is recorded as the team's score.
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Examples
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But in Friday's gales, Woods and Johnson's best-ball, three-under-par total was easily the most thrilling match of the day, bettered only by the duo that beat them one-upAaron Baddeley and Jason Day. who beat them one-up, and by the Matt Kuchar-Steve Stricker pair.
Majesty at Royal Melbourne John Paul Newport 2011
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Our team of three, in best-ball competition, finished our final circuit of four holes in two under par, thanks to a couple of long putts that unaccountably swerved toward, rather than away from, the bottles.
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One piece of advice he offers: Try to include at least one Swede on any best-ball team because of their uncanny putting skills.
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There are leagues than mimic best-ball tournaments, with each team taking the low score among its four golfers over each hole of a four-day tournament.
Tiger even dominates the fake golf world lf Journal ADAM THOMPSON 2008
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Players use a best-ball foursome game, picking three eligible old-timers who likely won't play in a given week and then finding the shakiest fourth possible, so only his score will count.
Imagining Tiger 2008
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There are leagues than mimic best-ball tournaments, with each team taking the low score among its four golfers over each hole of a four-day tournament.
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One piece of advice he offers: Try to include at least one Swede on any best-ball team because of their uncanny putting skills.
Tiger even dominates the fake golf world lf Journal ADAM THOMPSON 2008
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Players use a best-ball foursome game, picking three eligible old-timers who likely won't play in a given week and then finding the shakiest fourth possible, so only his score will count.
Tiger even dominates the fake golf world lf Journal ADAM THOMPSON 2008
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On Saturday, Casey fired an unlikely "walk-off" hole-in-one — what he called a "bizarre moment" — that won his best-ball match, the first Ryder Cup solo stroke in 11 years.
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Players use a best-ball foursome game, picking three eligible old-timers who likely won't play in a given week and then finding the shakiest fourth possible, so only his score will count.
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