Par for the course? Par for the whole course of 18 holes at the professional level is 72 shots. If Tiger Woods, for example, finishes a round with exactly 72 shots, then he is par for the course. This doesn’t happen a lot, actually. More often, it would be like 68 or 69 for Tiger – that’s 4 under par, or 4 or 3 shots below (better than) average.
You the novice may finish the same course with 100 shots. That will be 28 over par. It’s good exercise for taking a walk on the grass any day, but that kind of score is clearly not going to get you in the same neighborhood, or universe, with good golfers, let alone Tiger.
And so we’ll let Tiger alone and examine a few more examples of idiomatic use of “par for the course”.
1. Simon Peter and his friends were tired. They had spent the entire night fishing and had nothing to show for their efforts. It was probably not the first time. They were seasoned fishermen and a night like that was par for the course. Having secured their boats they were now washing their nets, no doubt getting ready for their next trip out whenever that would be.
- JAMAICA NEWSWEEKLY, Jamaicans.com, January 16, 2009.
2. It is still valuable to have night time routines, with familiar things happening each night, quiet times, low lights, a bath and singing lullabies etc, but you are really just setting the scene for later on, to expect that a baby will always respond to routines the same way is not realistic at this stage. If your baby is waking, then he needs you for something, so sleep deprivation for parents is par for the course I’m afraid for the first couple of years!
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