Another two-on-two format, but in this instance, there are four balls in play on every hole hence the name. Each player plays their own ball into the hole, and the player with the lowest score of the group wins the hole for his team.
If scores are tied, the hole is halved. A good, old-fashioned one-on-one. The player with the lowest score on each hole wins the hole. All twelve players in each team participate in this session, with either captain blindly picking the order of players. Start by scoring the foursomes and four-ball matches on the first two days of the three-day competition.
Foursomes competition involves two-player teams, with the players on each team alternating shots throughout the match hitting every other shot. The team with the lowest amount of strokes on each hole wins the hole. Four-ball competition also involves two-man teams, but each golfer plays his own ball. Amateurs may know this format as better ball of partners. The lowest-scoring player wins the hole for his team.
The teams consist of 12 competitors, a captain and vice-captains. Only the 12 competitors will play. Because each of the first two days of competition requires 16 individual golfers, four golfers from each person team will need to play a round in the morning and afternoon, creating another layer of strategy for both teams.
Captains must submit their line-ups for Friday morning games at pm ET on Thursday; the deadline for Friday afternoon games is pm on the same day. Saturday morning queues must be submitted no later than one hour after the end of the game on Friday, and the deadline for afternoon queues is again p. ET on the same day. Matches are worth one point for the winning team, half a point for a tie and no point for the losing team. The score for each individual competition reflects the overall Ryder Cup score: individual holes won are worth one point, with draws on a hole resulting in half a point for both teams.
The team with the most points at the end of a match wins the point for their team in the Ryder Cup final score. If after the 28 competitions the two teams remain tied at 14 each, then the team that currently holds the Ryder Cup keeps it.
So if the Ryder Cup ends in a tie, then Team Europe, winner of the competition, would remain champion. Its vice-captains are Fred Couples and Phil Mickelson. If there is a tie at the end of the round, each side gets half a point toward its total score. The final round of competition is played in a single, match-play format. There will be 12 singles matches with each golfer facing a member of the opposing team one-on-one.
The winning golfer secures his team a point. Once again, a draw earns each team half a point. In all, there are 28 matches and the first team to reach While stroke play scores the total number of strokes throughout a tournament, match play scores each hole.
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