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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.
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 ...
The 2023 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 24th and final WGC Match Play, played March 22–26 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas.. The field consisted of the top 64 available eligible players from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 13.
Par, or bogey, is a scoring system used mostly in amateur and club golf.It is a stroke play format played against the course, with match play scoring based on the number of strokes taken on each hole compared to a fixed score, [1] usually the par or bogey; in this context, bogey is meant in the traditional sense as the score a good player would expect on the hole, usually par but occasionally ...
The 2022 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 23rd WGC Match Play, played March 23–27 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. The tournament was won by 2021 runner-up Scottie Scheffler , who defeated Kevin Kisner 4 and 3 in the final.
A golfer's score is compared with the par score. [4] If a course has a par of 72 and a golfer takes 75 strokes to complete the course, the reported score is +3, or "three-over-par" and takes three shots more than par to complete the course. If a golfer takes 70 strokes, the reported score is −2, or "two-under-par".
The 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 21st WGC Match Play, played March 27–31 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2019 . Kevin Kisner , runner-up in 2018 , defeated 2013 champion Matt Kuchar in the final, 3 & 2.
In golf. WGC Match Play, a World Golf Championships event; Volvo World Match Play Championship, an invitational event on the European Tour; Cisco World Ladies Match Play Championship, held in Japan in 2001 and 2002; HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship, LPGA event held 2005–7; In other sports. World Matchplay (darts) World Matchplay ...