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.
Bogey golf (averaging one over par) is actually quite good - it would shoot around 90 on most courses, better than 75% of recreational golfers, yet the name makes it sound like failure!
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