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- noun Alternative form of
match play .
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Examples
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If you have played well in the strokeplay, the matchplay is a totally different game where you are not counting every shot and if you have a bad hole, it is just one hole, it's not going to matter.
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There are upsets in matchplay golf and then there are humiliations of the kind endured by Rory McIlroy in the second round of the Accenture Match Play Championship.
Rory McIlroy out of World Match Play after heavy defeat to Ben Crane 2011
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This match might not get much television coverage but it should be a matchplay beauty.
Ryder Cup 2010: Singles matches analysis Lawrence Donegan at Celtic Manor 2010
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But the beauty of matchplay – or perhaps it is the madness?
Luke Donald faces Martin Kaymer in Match Play Championship final 2011
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Logic suggests the 16th edition of the Heineken Cup will again be drenched in celebratory French champagne but, as in matchplay golf, the spirit of the Marquis de Sade is never far away.
Heineken Cup: Welsh giants the best bet to stop the French juggernaut Robert Kitson 2010
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If in fact he was a jellied-kneed coward, how is it that he thrives in matchplay, a form of golf that more than any other demands mental strength?
Luke Donald faces Martin Kaymer in Match Play Championship final 2011
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You are never out of it in matchplay, goes the old saying, but that is only true when your opponent gives you chance.
Cruel hand Luke Donald ends Matteo Manassero's dream run 2011
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Full marks for honesty and full marks too for the age-old cliche about matchplay golf being the graveyard of expectations.
Rory McIlroy out of World Match Play after heavy defeat to Ben Crane 2011
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Mild-mannered Donald may be, but as he so ably illustrated at last year's Ryder Cup in Wales – where he was the star man of the European team – he is something of matchplay specialist.
Cruel hand Luke Donald ends Matteo Manassero's dream run 2011
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I'm experienced enough to have had big breaks before and come straight back and played well so I don't see it as any problem at all and with it being matchplay as well, that's different to strokeplay.
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