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Originally Posted by Osem
Agreed there's no perfect solution but at least my way means that the team actually doing the best at the time wins as opposed to what might have been the case had there been a few more holes played. Under the current rule you could be 8 up with 9 to play and it'll be called a draw. Don't see how that's fairer - it's far more likely that the team ahead at the time would go on to win than the team so far behind would stage a miraculous recovery.
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But where would you draw the line? Awarding a win to a player one up with 17 to play would be very unfair or one up with any number to play in fact, the same with a two or three hole lead as we saw today can be easily turned around. I think calling the match a draw is probably the easiest way to do it as its seems unlikely anyone would have a seven or eight hole lead without it being an unassailable lead in such a high quality tournament.