match play vs golf

match play and golf both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
match play	Yes	No	No	No
golf	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, golf is a hypernym of match play; that is, golf is a word with a broader meaning than match play:

match play: golf scoring by holes won
golf: a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

Other hypernyms of match play include golf game.

match play (noun)	golf (noun)
golf scoring by holes won	a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes

match play (verb)	golf (verb)
	play golf