What is "four-ball"

n. A game of golf between two pairs of golfers in which the better score for each pair of players at each hole is counted.

Four-ball (and variant spellings four ball, fourball, 4 ball, 4-ball, etc.) may refer to:

• 4 ball, the pool (pocket billiards) ball numbered "4", and traditionally colored purple but pink in some ball sets
• 4 ball, the brown snooker ball, worth 4 points, normally referred to as "the brown"
• Four-ball billiards, a carom billiards game played in variations around the world
• Cowboy pool, sometimes referred to as American four-ball pool or four-ball for short
• Four-ball golf (a.k.a. best ball, or better ball), a type of golf match used in match-play competitions, consisting of two teams (of two players each), competing directly against each other.
• 4-ball, a four-dimensional -ball in mathematics