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Discover LudwigThe word "bogey" is correct and usable in written English
It generally refers to a score of one-over-par on a golf course, or a person who is disliked and avoided. You might use it in a sentence like, "The golfer's bogey on the 14th hole cost him the tournament."
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bogey
noun
The Devil.
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The ball ricocheted away and left him a simple putt for a bogey.
Birdies on six, seven and eight saw him climb the leaderboard before a bogey five on the par four ninth saw him drop.
His round was soured by an ugly double bogey six on the last.
A bogey on the 9th was particularly annoying for him.
A blip at 10 was followed by four birdies in the next five holes, while another bogey at 17 meant he shot a 64 first round.
Third-runway blues Reshaping the landscape Birdie or bogey?
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Woods, whose previous worst of 82 came at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in January, struggled throughout and was already nine over par before finishing with a quadruple-bogey on the par-four 18th.
He hit further birdies on seven and nine before four consecutive from 11 through 14 in a bogey-free round.
The new Jack the Ripper, the Victorian bogey-man whose toll the killer of the women in Suffolk has already equalled.
Woods, who has insisted he is feeling better after recent back problems, had already had his struggles this week, opening his first round with three bogeys in the first four holes and a double-bogey on the 18th, but made the cut with a round of 70 on Friday.
Shane Lowry's bogey-free 67 leaves him at eight under.
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