Match Play
Golf Personal provides some special assitance for match play competition - when one player or team plays a hole-by-hole match against another.
You can open a Match window by choosing New
Match Window from the Golf menu or by typing
M (Shift-Command-M)
on your keyboard.
You can also quickly
open a new Match window by clicking the New Match button on the toolbar.
A New Empty Match Window
A Match window contains two areas in which a competitor's score is displayed. To add a player (or team) round into a Match window, drag the player's or team's icon to either the top or bottom scoring area on the Match window. You can drag rounds from a scorecard, a Team window, a Medal Scores window or from an open Player document window. In our example, we have dragged the second best-ball (full handicap) for our team to the top position and the opponent's second best-ball to the bottom position. The Match window is redrawn and looks like this:
Results of a Best-Ball Match
Note that the hole-by-hole results of the match are determined for us. The holes at which our first team is in the lead are shaded blue and have positive numbers - the number of holes they are "up" in the match at that point. Holes at which the opponents are "up" are shaded red and have negative numbers. It seems our team won this match 3 up with 2 holes to play.
The number to the left of each competitor's scores (also shaded blue or red), reflects the overall points (a match being one point, a tie or halved match a half a point) each team has won.
The Match window has several other features, however, that can help compute the results of other kinds of complex matches.
Handicapping a Match
You can select whether a match is to be contested on gross scores (or previously adjusted team scores like our example) or net scores. If you select net handicapping for a match, handicap strokes are given to only the highest handicapped competitor - the difference between the two players' handicaps - unless you also check the "Full Hdcp." box, which allocates each player their full handicap at the holes where they would normally fall.
Match Play Variations
In addition to a regular match, the Match window supports other kinds of matches. A Nassau is three matches simultaneously - a match over 18 holes, a match over the front side, and a match over the back side. A Front/Back match includes two nine-hole matches - one over the front side, the other over the back side. You can also select a match consisting of three matches - one over the first six, a second over the second six, and a third over the last six holes of a round.
Automatic Presses
A "press" is the addition of another match or bet, beginning even at the hole at which the press occurs, running through the last hole of the match or bet that was pressed. Pressing allows a player who is "down" in a match to start another match, with the intention of getting "even" from the prospective loss in the original match.
Golf Personal supports automatic presses of two types. An automatic "2-down" press occurs when one player is 2 down in a match. The new match resulting from the press begins on the next hole. An automatic "1-down last hole" press occurs when one player is 1 down in a match with a single hole remaining. Golf Personal will not automatically press a match or bet that has previously been pressed.
If the players in our examples decide to contest their first better-balls in a Front /Back match (in effect, two matches) with automatic 2-down presses, the Match window for that contest would look like:
A Front/Back Match with 2-down Presses
Note that the two original matches (labeled "Front" and "Back" to the left) were both won by our Team Webb - 3 and 1 on the front side, 2 and 1 on the back side. There were two automatic 2-down presses (labeled to the right) - one beginning on the 5th hole as a result of the opponent being 2 down after the 4th, and another beginning on the 12th hole as a result of the opponent being 2 down after the 11th. The opponents lost the press on the front side (2 down), but managed to halve the press on the back side. The overall result is 3.5 points for Team Webb (three wins and a halved match), .5 points (a halved match) for Team Beeper.
For another illustration, perhaps our sample teammates also played a simultaneous Front/Back match against each other - with handicap. The resulting Match window would look like this:
Another Sample Match
This match, begun as matches over the front and back sides, resulted in one win and two halved matches for each player, overall 2 points each. Note the automatic last hole 1-down press at the 9th hole and the automatic 2-down press at the 12th hole.
You can add your own presses to a match. Decide which match is to be pressed and at which hole the press begins. Double-click on that hole, and a press will be added (and labeled as "Added" to the right). To remove an added press, Option-Double-click (hold the Option key down while you double-click) somewhere in the added press.
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