Singles match play
One against one, hole by hole on net score: lower wins the hole, level halves it, and the score is holes up.
- 2 players
- Own ball
- Singles
How it’s scored
- Each hole is won, lost or halved. A nine costs exactly one hole, same as a bogey.
- The score is holes up with holes to play: 2 UP, A/S, 1 DOWN.
- The match is over when one player is more holes up than there are left — 4&3 is four up with three to play.
- Level after the last is All Square, half a point each in a cup.
Worked · Ellis v Hartley, closed out on the 15th
Handicaps
The lower player plays off scratch and the other gets the full difference: 20 against 10 is ten shots, down the stroke index.
100% of the gapHow handicaps are worked out
Good for
- Players
- Two
- Handicaps
- Any — the shots close the gap
- When
- Ryder Cup singles, or a grudge on the last day
Set it up in score70
- Set Up the Day → Match Play
- Pick the two players. The allowance is prefilled at 100% of the gap
Free. Only the organiser signs up; everyone else opens the link.
The fine print
Why does the match stop at 4&3?
Four up with three to play cannot be caught, so the app closes it out on the fifteenth green and writes it up as 4&3 rather than waiting for eighteen scores. The last three holes are never played for the match; the cards still score stableford.
What if it is all square after 18?
A half. In a Ryder Cup that is half a point to each side. There is no sudden death unless your group plays one; the app records what the cards say.
Where do the shots fall?
By stroke index: ten shots is a shot on S.I. 1 to 10. The percentage is of the gap between the two players, never of each handicap, so the lower player is never cut for being good.