A golf score of one stroke over par for a hole. For example, scoring a 5 on a par-4 hole or a 4 on a par-3 hole constitutes a bogey.
From 'bogey-man', a British term for a goblin or phantom. In golf, it originally meant the score a good golfer should achieve (like par), but by the 1890s shifted to mean one over par as the standard became more demanding.
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