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Originally Posted by Lucy!
Now, I have absolutely no clue about golf. Looking at that site it says that there's practise, first round and second round - will there be people who don't make it through to the second round or what?!?!
Someone educate me!
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AFAIK, most but not all will play in the practice rounds. That is entirely optional and then is when you will get your horseplay and gooing around.
It says it follows the format of the Ryder Cup in which case the next two days will be divided into 8 foursomes, 8 fourballs and 12 singles.
Foursomes are where you have two palyers from each team playing with one ball per pair. USA1 hits USA Ball, Europe 1 hits europe Ball. USA2 hits USA ball and then Europe 2 hits Europe ball and so on.
Fourballs are where four people (2 from each team) play simultaeneously.
In both these events, the team with the lowest score at the end gets the point.
The singles games are normal individual rounds of golf in which a member of each teams plays a round against each other.
The schedule of who plays on what days is entirely down to the choice of the captain that morning so there is no way of telling who will be playing on the Sunday or Monday.
Unlike most sports, the rounds don;t refer to teams being knocked out before the next round. They refer to a round of 18 holes.