best-ball

best-ball
best-ball [best′bôl′]
adj.
Golf designating a type of team competition for partners in which the lower score of either partner is recorded as the team score on each hole: also called better-ball

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best-ball (bĕstʹbôl') n.
A form of team competition in golf in which the best individual score on a hole is recorded as the team's score.

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Universalium. 2010.

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