Editing Match play (section)

==Tournaments featuring match play==
Currently, there are few professional tournaments that use match play. They include the biennial [[Ryder Cup]] played by two teams, one representing the [[United States|USA]] and the other representing [[Europe]]; the biennial [[Presidents Cup]] for teams representing the US and International (non-European) players; and the older [[Volvo World Match Play Championship]], an invitational event which is now part of the [[European Tour]]. The [[PGA Championship]], one of the [[Men's major golf championships|majors]], used match play for its first 39 editions ([[1916 PGA Championship|1916]]–[[1957 PGA Championship|1957]]), but changed to stroke play {{time ago|1958}} in&nbsp;[[1958 PGA Championship|1958]].

Women's professional golf had no event directly comparable to the Accenture Championship until the [[HSBC Women's World Match Play Championship]] was introduced in 2005. After it was canceled in 2007, the LPGA was without a match play event until the [[Sybase Match Play Championship]] was played from 2010 to 2012. Women's golf also has the biennial [[Solheim Cup]] staged between two teams, one including [[United States|USA]]-born players and one including players born in Europe. In 2014, a new women's match play tournament began, the [[International Crown]] – a biennial match play competition featuring teams from eight countries. From 2005 to 2008, women's golf held the [[Lexus Cup]], an event pitting an International team against an Asian team.

The [[USGA]] championships – Amateur, Junior Amateur, Mid-Amateur, Senior Amateur, and team (four-ball) for both men and women – are conducted with two rounds of stroke play to cut the field to 64 (individual) or 32 (teams), and then proceed to a single-elimination match play tournament. All elimination matches are 18 holes except for the final in individual competitions, which is 36 holes.

The European Tour and PGA Tour Australasia co-sanction a Perth (Australia) tournament that in 2017 adopts a match play format.  It is conducted with three rounds of stroke play, with two cuts—one to 65 at the end of the second round, and one to 24 at the end of the third round, then proceeds on the final day to a single-elimination match play tournament with the top eight exempt from the first round.  All elimination matches are six holes, with a tie-breaker hole played twice.  The first hole will be a standard par-3, and the second time around closest to pin will end the round.

The European Tour also has the [[GolfSixes]], which uses 16 pairs of players, by country, and uses a round robin grouping of four groups of four, with each group playing three matches with a similar format to the elimination matches in Perth, and the results determine second-day matches.  Each group will play a maximum of 36 holes (six matches).