stroke play

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   golf scoring by total strokes taken

   Synonymsmedal play

   Broadergolf

Questions about stroke play

What does stroke play mean?

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

What is another word for stroke play?

Close synonyms include medal 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 stroke play a common word?

stroke 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.