Definition of "matchplay" [matchplay]

• Alternative form of match play. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "Full marks for honesty and full marks too for the age-old cliche about matchplay golf being the graveyard of expectations."