double-bogey
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- noun
- /ˈdʌbəl ˈboʊɡi/
- Jargon
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doble bogey
- After hitting my tee shot into the water, I ended up with a double-bogey on the first hole.
- make a double-bogey
- double-bogey on the hole
- double-bogey in his round
Examples
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Yoo had a five-shot lead until losing three shots on the last two holes with a pair of three-putts, one of them a double bogey on the par-3 eighth when her tee shot bounced over the green and down a steep slope.
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Her first chip came back to her feet, and she failed to get up-and-down, giving her a double bogey.
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The fact of the matter is you will never win any "dough" if your superb putting skills are saving bogey and double bogeys all the time.
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Webb had to hole a 15-foot putt for double bogey, dropping her back to a 71, five shots behind.
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She was on the verge of building a big lead until her 4-iron went over the green, a fat chip that barely got onto the green, and three putts for a double bogey.
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Miyazato took two chips to get onto the green and made double bogey on the par-5 second, and then laid up into a bunker on the par-5 fifth to make bogey and fall behind.
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She had not declared a provisional, so she received a penalty after, for all intents and purposes, calling a penalty on herself—resulting in a double bogey for the hole.
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He was disappointed to finish the game with a double-bogey after a difficult putt.
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Scoring a double-bogey can really hurt your overall performance in a golf tournament.
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Etymology
Double-bogey joins double ('two') and bogey, a golf word that once meant the score an imagined opponent or good player would make. So a double-bogey is 'two' strokes more than the normal score, that is, 'two over par'.