bogy
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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2022
In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2010
The bogy behind much of the adverse change in the job market is global competition, the single most powerful economic fact of life in the 1990s.
From Time Magazine Archive
But there was another bogy: in an alternate method, hormone pellets are implanted in the steer's ear or neck for gradual absorption.
From Time Magazine Archive
And I had nothing to eat, and I was so frightened—for she said there was a bogy there—that I nearly died.
From Sue, A Little Heroine by Meade, L. T.
Defending champion Nick Taylor, who had been in a share of the lead after two rounds, slipped back to tied-fifth with a disappointing 70 that included four bogies.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Wu, the Chinese player who finished in a tie for 79th in Spain last year, took the early lead after making eight birdies and no bogies in a round of 63.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Wu, the Chinese player who finished in a tie for 79th in Spain last year, took the early lead after making eight birdies and no bogies in a round of 8-under 63.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
Osswald made eight birdie putts and had four bogies.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
Puffskein is a scavenger that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, but it has a particular preference for sticking its tongue up the nose of sleeping wizards and eating their bogies.
From "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" by J.K. Rowling
