Do you know how to put the numbers into play? As a test case, let’s consider a popular form of competition — four-ball, a two-vs.-two format in which partners from each team play their own ...

I could do no better than four, so I then picked up. So it was a half then… But was it? Standing at the next tee, my partner took his ball out of his pocket, ready to tee it up. He looked at it ...