Bogey (Verb)
Meaning
To shoot in one stroke over par.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- He bogeyed the fifth hole after his tee shot landed in a sand trap.
- The professional golfer bogeyed two holes in the final round of the tournament.
- The golfer bogeyed the par-4 tenth hole after a wayward drive into the woods.
- Hitting his approach shot into the water hazard, Johnson bogeyed the challenging seventeenth hole.
- After his putt lipped out of the hole, the player bogeyed the difficult sixteenth hole.