medal play

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   golf scoring by total strokes taken

   Synonymsstroke play

   Broadergolf

Questions about medal play

What does medal play mean?

medal play means "golf scoring by total strokes taken".

What is another word for medal play?

Close synonyms include stroke play. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medal play a common word?

medal 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.