pars

Expected stroke counts

Pars is the plural of par—the expected or standard level.

In golf, pars are holes completed in the designated number of strokes: She made pars on the first three holes.

The word also appears in discussions of performance meeting expectations: His recent scores have been right around pars for the course.

golf

par

Expected stroke count

over par · bogey · birdie · eagle · handicap · hole · fairway · green · round · scorecard

latin

portion

Divided share given

share · division · segment · role · side · ratio · anatomy · classical · roman · declension

parsing

analysis

Methodical study of parts

tokenization · segmentation · splitting · extraction · deconstruction · decomposition · lexical · delimiter · string · text processing

Opposites
golf scoring relative to standard

parsbirdies

One below par

bogeys · eagles · double bogeys · albatrosses · triple bogeys

Phrases
Family

part, party, partner, apart, parcel, parts, depart, partial, partnership

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