Online Play:
Setup for Match Play.
Check: DO NOT CLICK "Go to next hole once hole is won" and DO NOT check"Quit round once winner is decided".
We need the *.round file for online play.
Offline Play:
Setup for Stroke Play.

Reporting:
If played online both players email specific match result.

Examples: Joe won 3 and 2, Bill won 1 up, match all square. Email me if unfamiliar with match play terms.
If played offline contestants must save a "Recorded Round" file upon conclusion of play.
Failure to do so will result in disqualification.

Email your Recorded Round files to me or upload from the HHT web site after zipping the file for "Offline Play".

Match play is a scoring system for golf in which a player, or team, earns a point for each hole in which they have bested their opponents; this is as opposed to stroke play, in which the total number of strokes is counted over one or more rounds of 18 holes. In professional golf, a small number of notable tournaments use the match play scoring system.

Scoring system:

Unlike stroke play, in which the unit of scoring is the total number of strokes taken over one or more rounds of golf, match play scoring consists of individual holes won, halved or lost. On each hole, the most that can be gained is one point. Golfers play as normal, counting the strokes taken on a given hole. The golfer with the lowest score on a given hole receives one point. If the golfers tie, then the hole is halved, e.g. in an 18-hole match, the first hole is a par-4 and Player A scores a 3 (birdie) and Player B scores a 4 (par); Player A is now 1-up with 17 to play. In the same match on the second hole, a par-5, Player A takes 8 strokes and Player B takes 5 (par); Player B wins the hole and the match is now "all square" with 16 to play. On the third hole, a par-3, both players take 3 strokes and the match is all square with 15 holes to play. Once a player is "up" more holes than there are holes remaining to play the match is over. For example, if after 12 holes Player A is 7-up with six left to play, Player A is said to have won the match "7 and 6".

Scoring using handicaps:

Scoring match play using handicaps is not done exactly the same way it is done in a stroke play event. In 18-hole stroke play where Player A is a -10 handicap and Player B is a -19 handicap, Player A gets one stroke off his score on the ten hardest holes (by handicap rating on scorecard); Player B gets two strokes off his score on the hardest hole and one stroke off on the other 17.

In match play, Player A would play as "scratch" (zero handicap) and Player B would get one stroke off his score on the nine hardest holes. In other words, the 10 handicap becomes zero and the 19 handicap becomes nine.

Team Match Play Competition Scoring:

In team match play competition, where Team A consists of Player A1 (a -10 handicap), and Player A2 (a -15 handicap) and where Team B consists of Player B1 (a -19 handicap) and Player B2 (a -30 handicap), Player A1 plays as "scratch"; A2 gets one stroke off his score on the five hardest holes; Player B1 gets one stroke off his score on the nine hardest holes; and B2 will take 2 strokes off the two hardest holes and 1 stroke off the other 16. However, the USGA does not restrict the handicap of the low partner but some local clubs and organized tournaments do. That is, in team play, if no player can have a handicap more than 8 strokes higher than his partner, B2 would play as if his or her handicap were -27 (high partner's handicap of 19 + 8 = 27).