stroke play

noun

: golf competition scored by total number of strokes

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The starting field of 312 players for the U.S. Amateur Championship will play 18 holes of stroke play on Aug. 12 and 13, with one round at Hazeltine and one at Chaska Town Course, after which the field will be cut to the low 64 scores. —

Todd Abeln, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025 Contested from Wednesday to Saturday, the 72-hole stroke play tournament features 60 women representing 33 countries. —

Gabby Herzig, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024 Schedule The first round of the women’s stroke play event will be played Wednesday starting at 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET). —

Gabby Herzig, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024 The first-time Olympian shot a 62 in the final round with no bogeys to best Great Britain’s Tommy Fleetwood and Japan’s Hideki Matsuyama in the men's individual stroke play golf tournament at Le Golf National on Sunday. —

Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 5 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for stroke play