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Interstate Team Match
The Australian Interstate Teams Matches is a mixed gender amateur team golf competition between the states of Australia. Planned in 2020, it was not held until 2022 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It replaced the earlier separate Australian Men's Interstate Teams Matches, men's and Australian Women's Interstate Teams Matches, women's events which were last held in 2019. New South Wales won the 2022 event, beating South Australia in the final at St Michaels Golf Club. Format The event is contested by the six states of Australia. The format is a round-robin tournament, each team playing the other five teams, after which the top two teams play a final. From 2023 each team consists of up to 10 players, five men and five women, although only four men and four women play in each match. In 2022 there were just four men and four women in each team. There are eight singles in each match, men playing men and women playing women, all contests being over 18 holes. Extra holes are not playe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Match Play
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. Although most professional tournaments are played using the stroke play scoring system, there are, or have been, some exceptions, for example the WGC Match Play and the Volvo World Match Play Championship, and most team events, for example the Ryder Cup and Presidents Cup, all of which are in match play format. Scoring system Unlike stroke play, in which the unit of scoring is the total number of strokes taken over one or more rounds of golf, match play scoring consists of individual holes won, halved or lost. On each hole, the most that can be gained is one point. Golfers play as normal, counting the strokes taken on a given hole. The golfer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |