Definition of match play
: golf competition in which the winner is the person or team winning the greater number of holes — compare stroke play
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Gross Ben Conroy will meet Elias Gross, a University of Hartford junior, in Friday's 36-hole match play final at the Country Club of Waterbury to decide the 116th CSGA State Amateur.
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Leckie put the Socceroos ahead just after the half-hour and doubled their lead eight minutes after the restart of the match played in Sankt Poelten in Austria.
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My anchor, Wells Padgett, was the anchor all week in match play.
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The tall right-hander from Holly went undefeated in match play and held off Alex Hoskins of Brigham City, Utah, in the championship match, 213-199, to win the coveted title and $30,000 top prize.
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With the crowd in full throat, an emotional match played out on the court.
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Won the state singles title this season, bowling a 279 game during the first-round of match play.
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The juniors won double-digit matches playing together in No. 1 doubles during the regular season.
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This was his first tournament since a knee injury saw him pull out of the year-end ATP Finals after just one match played last November.
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First Known Use of match play
1893
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