I'm sorry I had to...

[crouchingwombat]

You know I always thought PAR stood for professional average something or another. Guess not. I get so excited when I get a PAR on my home course I even named my dog PAR... PAR PAR PAR
I think this will be a nice place to spend my time at work.

[Cradical]

professional average return is what it stands for I'm pretty sure.

[soladeos]

since 2 newbies chimed in on a PAR thread before anyone else, does that count for 2 points to whoever comments next???

oops, that would be me

[landon77]

What points are you talking about? Is there sometype of competition going on?

[crouchingwombat]

soladeos
I would think you are a newbie also with only 25 posts. Don't you need like 50000000 posts and and 10+ years of disc golf experience to shed the newbie title?

[DiscChainBasket18]

soladeos
I would think you are a newbie also with only 25 posts. Don't you need like 50000000 posts and and 10+ years of disc golf experience to shed the newbie title?
100 posts here gets you 'par member' status. I just made the cut myself recently.

[agentdozzer]

um just wanted to see how many i have.

[ERicJ]

um just wanted to see how many i have.
You can always look here:
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/member.php?u=1405

[crouchingwombat]

How many posts do I need to become an Eagle member? Time to start with the spam..j/k.

[ERicJ]

How many posts do I need to become an Eagle member? Time to start with the spam..j/k.

Here ya go:

Bogey = 0-99
Par = 100 - 249
Birdie = 250-499
Eagle = 500 - 999
Ace = 1000+

[trifocal]

Here ya go:

ERicJ, Master of the Archives. don da don don..don da da

Just don't mention snakes.

[ERicJ]

Indiana (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000148/): Snakes. Why'd it have to be snakes?
Sallah (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722636/): Asps. Very dangerous. You go first.

I think it was Chuck Kennedy of the PDGA who has the perfect signature for me: "Rater of the Tossed Arc"

ERic

[trifocal]

You all got to admit that the theme music is kind of catchy. Just type the first seven notes. It'll be stuck in your head for an hour.

or...we could do it this way.

Par.. Par par... Par. Par Par Par. ( repeat a few times and then go to Olorins Icon)

Tmg Disc Golf Course Review and The Thread of Doom.

[Aaron D'Angelo]

HAHAHAHAHA!

[magictenor1]

Does this thread have anything to do with par? Other than the use of the word many times? Par could stand for passive agressive ramblings, or maybe pretty awful ruminations

[crouchingwombat]

nothing to do with it at all. I should have put it in general discussion but it was my 1st post and I didn't know better.

[trifocal]

nothing to do with it at all. I should have put it in general discussion but it was my 1st post and I didn't know better.



Maybe Tim could participate and move this entire thread to the general discussion area? The General Discussion Area is the appropriate place for parley on these matters. Perhaps a new thread...The Pirate Code vs the Thread Police?

[XxInnovaxX]

wow..i was just strolling through some of the archives and this one popped up....its funny how threads can just wander so freely away from the original topic :)

[bazillion]

Hey, here we go from Wiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par_(score)) ...

Par
Even (E). The golfer has taken as many strokes as the hole's par number. In theory, pars are achieved by two putts, with the remaining shots being used to reach the green. For example, on a par-five hole, a player would be expected to take three shots to reach the green and two shots to putt the ball into the hole. Par derives its name from Latin, where "par" means even.

... and while we're at it ...

Bogey
One-over-par (+1). "Going round in Bogey" originally meant an overall par score, starting at the Great Yarmouth Golf Club in 1890, and based on a popular music hall song "Here Comes the Bogey Man".[citation needed] Nationally players competed against "Colonel Bogey" and this in turn gave the title to a 1914 marching tune.[citation needed]

As golf became more standardized in the United States, par scores were tightened and recreational golfers found themselves scoring over par, with bogey changing meaning to one over par. Bogeys are relatively common, even in professional play - so much so that it is considered somewhat noteworthy if a player manages to complete a 'bogey-free' round - and they are standard for most casual and club players. A player with a handicap of eighteen would be playing to his or her handicap if they scored a bogey on every hole.

More than one shot over par is known as a Double-Bogey (+2), Triple-Bogey (+3), and so on. However, it is more common to hear higher scores referred to by the number of strokes rather than by name. For example, a player, having taken 12 shots to negotiate a par-three, would be far more likely to refer to it simply as a 12, or being nine over par, than a nonuple bogey. Double-bogey or worse scores are relatively uncommon for top performers in professional play.

... not to mention ...

Birdie
One-under-par (-1). This expression was coined in 1899, at Atlantic City Country Club in Northfield, New Jersey. It seems that one day in 1899, three golfers - William Poultney Smith, founding member of Pine Valley, his brother Ab Smith, and George Crump (who later built Pine Valley, about 45 miles away) – were playing together when Crump hit his second shot only inches from the cup on a par-four hole after his first shot had struck a bird in flight. Simultaneously, the Smith brothers exclaimed that Crump's shot was "a bird." Crump's short putt left him one under par for the hole, and from that day the three of them referred to such a score as a "birdie." In short order, the entire membership of the club began using the term and, since as a resort the Atlantic City Country Club had a lot of out-of-town visitors, the expression spread and caught the fancy of all American golfers.[1] The perfect round (score of 54 on a par 72 course) is most commonly described as scoring a birdie on all 18 holes [2][3], although no player has ever recorded a perfect round in a professional tournament.

... and there's more - check out "eagle", "albatross", and "condor".

Man, I've got too much time on my hands. :D

[XxInnovaxX]

i hope you copy and pasted all of that....if you did happen to type it, then yes, you do have too much time on your hands....very good answer though

[XxInnovaxX]

finally something about par on a "what is par" thread