>>>>>>>>>>He's never lost. Sometimes there just isn't enough holes on a golf couse. :)
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>>>>>>>>>>>You make it sound like Tiger's never lost before.
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>>>>>>>>>>>>Wow! Clark just birdied 15th to extend his lead to 3 holes again. I believe that takes this match to "Dormie" for Clark.
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>>>>>>>>>that's it. Clark win 4 and 2.
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>>>>>>>>>Congrats Tim Clark!
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>>>>>>>>I have never understood the scoring in match play golf. What does 4 and 2 mean?
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>>>>>>>4 and 2 are digits used in the decimal system for example. It goes like this 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9.
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>>>>>>>Anything else?
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>>>>>>LOL
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>>>>>>Thank you. I am deeply grateful. Do I need to send you a check or was that pro bono?
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>>>>>
>>>>>Yes very funny. But then golf is a funny game where a short dumpy and relatively unknown player can beat a giant.
>>>>>
>>>>>4 and 2 means that Clark was up 4 holes with two hole left and the match was stop there because there was no way that Tiger was going to win... not enough holes left.
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>>>>>After the 15th hole, Clark was ahead by 3 holes with 3 holes remaining (a dormie, a number of holes up equals number of holes remaining). Which meant that Tiger had to win the remaining holes, 16th, 17th and 18th, to stay in the match. But it turns out that Clark won 16th as well, giving him a 4 and 2 victory.
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>>>>Thank you! There is another of life's little mysteries solved ;-)
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>>>There's a sport that I really don't understand. Rugby. To me this one is a mystery
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>>I don't understand Cricket. Why is there a Wicket and a bowler?

The wicket is the flat patch of ground between each end, ie between each set of stumps.

The man who delivers the ball does not throw it, but must keep a straight arm, hence bowling (overarm - it can be done underarm too, but tyat would be suicidal to the defending team)

>>It kinda looks like baseball, but not not really....

Only there's a bit of action in the game!

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>And how could anybody take a sport seriously when it has positions called "Silly Mid Off" and "Silly Mid On".

If you were to stand in that position - close up to the batter, when he returns a bowl at over 100 mph, with a hard, heavy, leather-clad ball - and try to stop it, you'd see the reason for the word "silly". Then there's the on side and off side, just like a car has.