Jerome Carrette (X) Oct 17, 2013:

what is your game or how is your game? ce n'est pas la même chose

CANFR (asker) Oct 17, 2013:

Non, le père sait de quel niveau est son fils....c'est plutôt comment son fils se sens mentalement..mais je ne peux pas le mettre en mots!

Tony M Oct 17, 2013:

@ Asker I think the "on a scale from one to ten" is largely intended to be humorous; I think the father simply wants to know if his son is playing well at the moment or not (it may be that he hasn't actually played with him for a long time...)

So he's really saying "How well are you playing these days?" (have you been practising a lot, are you in good physical condition, etc.)

Trying to quantify it on a scale of one to ten sounds like a touch of humour; it is often used for this sort of thing, even where no actual objective quantification is possible or relevant.

Note, though, that people do talk about their game (i.e. current proficiency) in terms of 'par' — i.e., 'par' is the expected score for a given course / hole, so if your game is currently, say, '2 under par', you're playing pretty well. Anyone as bad as me at golf would probably not admit to being '18 over par', for example — but would just say they'd been "a bit off form lately" ;-)