match play

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   golf scoring by holes won

   Broadergolf

Questions about match play

What does match play mean?

match play means "golf scoring by holes won".

Is match play a common word?

match play is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.