{"id":111,"date":"2010-03-15T17:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsmygolfhandicap.com\/ihgs\/?page_id=111"},"modified":"2021-11-30T12:25:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T12:25:24","slug":"matchplay","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/?page_id=111","title":{"rendered":"Matchplay"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a name=\"matchplay\"><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>As its name suggests, this method of scoring is only used in matches\u00a0e.g. the knockout competitions and the annual<br \/>\n<strong>Captain vs Vice-Captain<\/strong> event. The Committee have decided that a stroke allowance for the course\u00a0is given based on 3\/4 of the difference between a player&#8217;s handicap and\u00a0the lowest handicap of the group playing the match. After that, the game\u00a0is played by holes.<\/p>\n<p>A hole is won by the side that holes its ball in fewer (net) strokes.<br \/>\nA hole is <strong>halved<\/strong> if each side holes out in the same\u00a0number of strokes. The reckoning of holes is kept by the terms:<br \/>\nso many <strong>holes up<\/strong> or <strong>all square<\/strong>, and\u00a0so many <strong>to play<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A side is <strong>dormie<\/strong> when it is as many holes up as\u00a0there are remaining to be played.<\/p>\n<p>The match is won by the side which is leading by a number of holes\u00a0greater than the number of holes remaining to be played.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As its name suggests, this method of scoring is only used in matches\u00a0e.g. the knockout competitions and the annual Captain vs Vice-Captain event. The Committee have decided that a stroke allowance for the course\u00a0is given based on 3\/4 of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":27,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-111","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/111\/revisions\/2722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ihgs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}