stableford
Speech parts
1. stableford - Noun
2. Stableford - Proper noun
Meaning
A surname.
stableford (countable and uncountable, plural stablefords)
Alternative letter-case form of Stableford.
A hamlet in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SO7598).
A small village in Newcastle-under-Lyme borough, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8138)
Stableford (countable and uncountable, plural Stablefords)
(golf) A scoring system in the sport of golf that involves scoring points based on the number of strokes taken at each hole; (by extension) a game played according to this system.
Examples
Brian Stableford called this "an important early piece of sf criticism, sharply pointing out the genre's shortcomings."
A day earlier Headland marks its 63rd anniversary with a mixed fourball best ball stableford event with morning and afternoon shotgun starts at 7am and 12.15pm.
"Machen, Arthur (Llewellyn)", by Brian Stableford in David Pringle (ed), St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers.
Alan and Euan's 44 stableford points gave them a two-point margin of victory in the stableford competition ahead of runners-up Mark Birnie and Gordon McGregor.
Countback was also needed to separate the top two in the midweek Stableford on Wednesday of last week.
Eric Annandale easily accounted for the rest of the field when he won last Saturday’s 18-hole stableford, sponsored by Bankwest.