match play

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

match play
    n 1: golf scoring by holes won

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Match play \Match play\ (Golf)
   Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the holes won
   or lost by each side; -- distinguished from {medal play}.
   [Webster 1913 Suppl.]