How can golfers compete at different courses ?
A team only competes with 4 other teams. Those teams are playing on the same course, and at the same time, under the same conditions. There is no leader board, of the 5 teams competing the winner advances. At a different course on a different day 5 other teams can play under totally different weather conditions on a course that is much easier or much more difficult. The 5 teams are only competing with each other and the winner advances. The teams that advance meet in the semifinal round and play at the same course, at the same time under the same conditions.