par for the course

Learning to load a rifle, master the obstacle course and shoot targets was all par for the course in preparing for the series, but the advisors’ guidance and training was invaluable not just to the actors but to the entire production.

The United States lost a Pacific Four Series Test to reigning world champions New Zealand 79-14 in May, so England may consider this scoreline par for the course.

If doing a few airborne laps of the president's new Scottish golf course are par for the course on board the presidential helicopter and en route to a private dinner with him, so be it.

But it’s also par for the course these days, as one institution after another caves to the most serious threat to free speech since the Red Scare of the 1950s.

That has become tragically par for the course.