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Four-ball is a pairs playing format in the game of golf. It is also known as better ball [1] or best ball. It is also sometimes abbreviated as 4BBB. In a stroke play competition, competitors are paired and play as a team. Each golfer plays their own ball; the team's score on each hole is the lower of the two players' scores. Only one of a pair ...
Variations of best ball include Bowmaker, 1–2–3 Best Ball (or ChaChaCha), Fourball Alliance, Arizona Shuffle and Low Ball/High Ball; in each of these formats a set number of the players scores count for the team on each hole. [12] [13] The term best ball is also sometimes used when referring to four-ball.
The U.S. Amateur Four-Ball is played by "sides" of two golfers, each with handicap indexes of 5.4 or less. 128 sides compete in a 36-hole stroke play qualifier that determines the field of 32 sides for match play. Play is conducted using a four-ball format, where the lowest score by either player on each hole is the score for the side. [1]
The 2024 Presidents Cup opens from Royal Montreal in Quebec, Canada, on Thursday afternoon with a series of five four-ball matches. The two-man matches follow a best ball format.
The Home Course was designed by Mike Asmundson and opened for play in 2007.
The tournament featured an unusual team round robin format. From 1935 to 1951, the field consisted of eight two-man teams. They would play seven rounds totalling 126 holes in four-ball format. A team earned or lost points on each hole, in a match play style, based on their score versus the opposing team for that round. A team scored "+1" for ...
The U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball is played by teams of two golfers each with a handicap of 14.4 or less. 64 teams compete in a 36-hole stroke play qualifier that determines the field of 32 teams for match play. Play is conducted using a four-ball format. [1] The men's counterpart is the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball, also started in 2015.
For nearly two decades, Joel Gonsalves and Dean Snell were CCNB Four-Ball partners. They faced off for the first time in a Four-Ball on Wednesday. First-ever matchup between these former CCNB Four ...