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Have you ever watched a golf tournament on TV and wondered what all the numbers mean? Golf terminology can be confusing at the best of times, birdie this, bogey that. What does it all mean?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a golf leaderboard, the letter “E” stands for Even. This means the golfer has taken exactly the expected number of shots relative to par. He’s not taken any more or any less shots than the course should have been played in.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Does Par Mean In Golf?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In most sports it’s pretty easy to judge how well you’re doing. In sports like basketball, soccer or tennis, where you face off against an opponent in each match, you are judged on whether you have scored more or less points than that opponent. If it’s more you are winning, less and you are losing. Easy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a sport like golf it’s more difficult. You’re not usually competing directly against an opponent (unless the competition is a matchplay format – more about that here). You’re competing against the course and then being ranked on how successful you were against that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to rank the various players in a tournament against the course you need to have a measure that everyone can be judged against. This is called “par”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Par is determined on a hole by hole basis and then added together to come up with an overall par for the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most courses will contain a mixture of par 3, 4 and 5 holes with the distance and difficulty being a factor in which category they fall into. Par 3’s are the shortest and Par 5’s the longest. Note, holes can go up to par 6+ but this is very rare and not normally found on standard courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Long Is The Average Par 3, 4 or 5?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The individual holes have a minimum and maximum length they need to be in order to fall into each category. They are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n