Stableford

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Stableford [ˈsteɪb^əlfəd]

(Individual Sports & Recreations) Golf

a. a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc.

b. (as modifier) a Stableford competition Compare match play, stroke play

[named after its inventor, Dr Frank Stableford (1870-1959), English amateur golfer]

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