: golf competition scored by total number of strokes
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His 11-under total matches his career best in an individual stroke play event on the PGA Tour through 36 holes, per the tour's communications team.—Jack Milko, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025 But this is match play — five individual matches, first to three points wins — and Stanford’s record 21-shot advantage after four rounds of stroke play was wiped out for the eight-team bracket Tuesday and Wednesday.—Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025 DeChambeau is just the third player in the PGA’s stroke play era (since 1958) to finish runner-up in consecutive years.—Justin Ray, New York Times, 19 May 2025 The format is four days of stroke play followed by quarterfinals, semifinals and championship of match play.—Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 16 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for stroke play
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