The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word EAGLES
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result EAGLES
- Raptors recorded on course
- League’s ruined without uniform golf scores
- Paul, jazz guitarist, backing English silver band
- Fear naked golfers regularly get below-par scores
- Group
- 10 low scores by clubs?
- Shots of Tiger and others bald and American?
- League’s rubbish without United as high fliers
- Birds, initially ensnarled in gales, destroyed
- Birds, nearly ageless, confused
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The straight part
We know that "below-par scores" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case below-par scores = eagles.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does EAGLES mean?
EAGLES noun- Any of several large carnivorous and carrion-eating birds in the family Accipitridae, having a powerful hooked bill and keen vision.
- A gold coin with a face value of ten dollars, formerly used in the United States.
- A 13th-century coin minted in Europe and circulated in England as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.
- A score of two under par for a hole.
- To score an eagle.