Overtake European in odd display of par golf (8)
I believe the answer is:
leapfrog
'overtake' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'european in odd display of par golf' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'odd' becomes 'l' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'display' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'displaying' mean this (the anagrammed letters display the answer)).
'golf' becomes 'g' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'of'+'par'='ofpar'
'ofpar' anagrammed gives '[ofpar]'.
'l'+'[ofpar]'='l[ofpar]'
'e' inserted into 'lapfro' is 'leapfro'.
'leapfro'+'g'='LEAPFROG'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for leapfrog that I've seen before include "Advance by jumps" , "Vaulting game" , "Children's game of jumping over each other" , "Child's game of jumping over competitors" , "bound over" .)