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This weekend marked the first time that Harvard had played match play golf in over forty years, according to Wentzell. Match play means that holes are scored individually and that the matches of all five players count toward the final score. In the more common stroke play, the top four matches are counted toward the final score, which is an accumulation of all the strokes at each hole...
...stroke play, one bad hole could ruin an entire match. In match play, a golfer could shoot a ten on a hole to another player’s three, and it would be no worse than if he had shot a four...
...residents died, with nearly half of those deaths occurring within the first six months of the study. Patients' median survival span was 478 days, a figure comparable with that of terminal-cancer patients. Thirty-one residents suffered major health events, such as seizure, gastrointestinal bleeding, heart attack or stroke, but only in rare cases did those events lead to death. Only seven patients had a major event during the final three months of life. "Our main findings confirmed dementia has high mortality. People in the study didn't have other devastating things happen to them before they died," says...
Harvard’s fall season reaches its culmination next weekend with the Ivy Match Play at the Bay Club in Mattapoisett, Mass. The Crimson is used to competing in stroke-play all season, so it will use this week to figure out which matches will prove most fruitful...
...think we did a really great job defending the penalty corner,” Caples said. “I don’t think we gave them too many second chance opportunities. They scored on a penalty stroke so you know we didn’t give up any field goals which is great...