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The phrase below par?
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If someone uses the phrase below par, it means poorly or of inferior quality. Why is this? In golf below par is actually what you are striving toward. Is the phrase below par taken from golf or somewhere else?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Before it found it's way into golf, 'par' was used by Stock Exchange traders to represent a notional 'normal' value for shares. If a particular stock was 'below par' that meant that it was performing badly, which is where the usage you refer to comes from.
Later golfers came to use 'par' to represent the 'normal' score for a particular hole, with 'under par' being something to be sought rather than to be avoided, as in the Stock Exchange.
Chris
Later golfers came to use 'par' to represent the 'normal' score for a particular hole, with 'under par' being something to be sought rather than to be avoided, as in the Stock Exchange.
Chris
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