___ for the course

The answer

PAR

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the PAR answer page.

Used 85 times across 25 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1959. It appears in 16 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for PAR

Every other clue in this collection answered by PAR, most used first.

• Standard - used 150 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf goal - used 117 times, most recently in 2026
• Golfer's goal - used 90 times, most recently in 2025
• Hole number - used 88 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf standard - used 63 times, most recently in 2026
• Average - used 52 times, most recently in 2026
• Golf course standard - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Something to shoot for - used 39 times, most recently in 2026
• Course number - used 37 times, most recently in 2025
• Golf term - used 36 times, most recently in 2023
• Links standard - used 34 times, most recently in 2022
• Golf score - used 29 times, most recently in 2015
• Bogey beater - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
• Duffer's goal - used 27 times, most recently in 2023
• Course standard - used 24 times, most recently in 2026
• Norm - used 24 times, most recently in 2025
• Standard golf score - used 22 times, most recently in 2026

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• In the past - AGO, used 1,064 times
• In the style of - ALA, used 784 times
• Under the weather - ILL, used 536 times
• "___ the season ..." - TIS, used 398 times
• For each - PER, used 391 times
• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times

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