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Stableford, n. Golf.|ˈsteɪb(ə)lfəd|
Also stableford.
[The name of Dr. Frank B. G. Stableford (c 1870–1959), medical practitioner, who devised this method of scoring.]
Used attrib. and absol. with reference to a kind of stroke-play competition in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken to complete each hole.
1937H. Longhurst Golf ii. ix. 273 The Stableford system gains yearly in popularity, as more and more people come to understand its working and to realize..that it is not so complicated as it seems. 1951Rules of Golf (ed. 16) 93 Play under the Stableford system is really a form of Bogey Competition. 1979Golf Illustr. 15 Feb. 5/3 They came up with six sub-par net scores in a heart-warming round that totalled 41 Stableford points which earned them first place in the 18-hole fourball competition. 1987Golf World Aug. 29/3 He is also the instigator of the Terry Wallace Charity Shield golf challenge, a nine-hole stableford open to visually handicapped players. |