Golf match play - how does the scoring work.?

Question

Why do they say things like " 3 & 4 " and " 2 down" in golf match play?

Answer 1

In match play the scoring goes like:example tiger woods beat stephen ames 9 & 8. The 9 means Tiger woods had won 9 holes more then Stephen Ames. That is calculated simply by who took the lower amount of strokes on a particular hole. If tiger took 3 shots and ames took 4 tiger would win the hole and be up one. Even if ames shot 6 strokes Tiger would still only get credit for being 1 hole up. The 8 means that the match is over becasue tiger is now up more holes then there are remaining. Matches are usually 18 holes. So for example again if Tiger is 3 up after 16 holes he would win 3 & 2 (the 3 being how many more holes he has won, and the 2 representing how many holes were left in the round). You can only win 1 hole at a time. Hope that helps. If you see the word halved it means they tied the specific hole. And when it says Dormie 3, it means that someone is 3 holes down and on the 3rd last hole meaning that if the player losing does not win that hole the match is over. Hope this helps ya!!

And just so you know, the first 2 answers are directed towards stroke play. Match play is just holes. Strokes only count on the hole your on to determine who won the hole. They are not added throughout the round to make your score.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Match play vs. stroke play: Most professional tournaments are stroke play. Count every stroke, whoever has the least strokes wins. In match play, all that matters is who wins the most holes. Example: 1st hole: Player A makes a 4....Player B makes a 7. 2nd hole: Player A makes a 4...Player B makes a 3. In match play, the match is currently "all square" or tied. Each player has won 1 hole. Using the same example, if you were playing stroke play, Player A would be two strokes ahead. Player A would have 8 strokes so far, and Player B would have 10. Match play is 1 player (or team) against another. It could be a seeded, bracketed tournament like tennis. Stroke play is many players against each other. Low # of strokes wins.

Answer 4

If they say Tiger won 3 and 4, he won by three holes with four holes remaining. 2 down means someone is losing by two holes, not two strokes.

A person can win in match play with more strokes. They might winn more holes than the other person and just lose one hole with a very high, terrible score. So in the end, you can have more strokes, and still win.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

In match play, you count holes won. If both players get the same score on a hole (whether they both birdie or bogey -- though in match play, those terms are meaningless) the hole is "halved", which means a tie for that hole. If one player "wins" a hole (whether by one stroke or six) that counts as just one hole. So "two up" means that player has won two more holes than his opponent, in which case the opponent would be "two down".

In match play, they don't play any more holes than necessary. So if one player is up by 3 holes with 2 to play, he wins the match "3 and 2". If the match goes 18 holes, the score is just given as "1 up" rather than "1 and 0". If the players are tied after 18, they keep playing until someone wins a hole. In this case, the result is given as "19 holes" or "21 holes" or whatever, since the win is by one hole.

Also, in match play, it's common for players to "concede" a short putt -- if a player's ball is a few inches from the hole, the opponent will generally assume it'll be tapped in on the next putt, so the ball never actually goes in the hole, but the hole is scored as a "halve" or a "win" (depending on the stroke count for the hole).

Answer 7

I don't know the terms as far as the scoring works, but its head to head on each hole. '2 down' means that player has two total more strokes than his competitor. For example, player A shot a 3-4-3-5-4 through the first 5 and player B shot 4-4-3-5-5, player B would be 2 shots down.

does that make sense?

Answer 8

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It is scored by whoever wins the hole. If golfer A gets a par on the hole and golfer B gets a birdie, then golfer B wins the hole and is 1 UP, so on and so forth. A hole is considered halved if both players get the same score. Whoever wins the most holes wins the match.

Answer 9

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Golf match play - how does the scoring work.?
Why do they say things like " 3 & 4 " and " 2 down" in golf match play?

Answer 10

3 & 4 means your ahead 3 holes with four left to play
2 down means your behind by 2 holes
once your down more than holes left to play your out