1892 Field 2 Jan. 6/1 A novelty was introduced in shape of a Bogey tournament for a prize... Fourteen couples started, but the Bogey defeated all.

1903 Westm. Gaz. 21 Feb. 6/2 Jones, with a handicap of 17, receives an allowance against Bogey of 13 strokes.

1910 Encycl. Brit. XII. 221/2 There is also a species of competition called ‘bogey’ play, in which each man plays against a ‘bogey’ score—a score fixed for each hole in the round before starting.

1922 P. G. Wodehouse Clicking of Cuthbert iii. 80 ‘Weren't you giving yourself rather a large family?’.. ‘Was I?’ he said, dully. ‘I don't know. What's bogey?’

1932 J. A. Barlow Elements Rifle Shooting iii. 43 It is a good plan to set oneself a definite score below which one must never fall. In other words, a bogey score for the practice or shoot.

1959 Listener 5 Nov. 802/1 Par Contract is a way of playing bridge against bogey.

1946 E. C. Acree et al. Golf Simplified 113 Bogey, a hole scored in one stroke over par.

1951 Golf World 15 June 16/1 Hall had seven birdies, two eagles and one bogie.

1954 R. T. Jones in H. W. Wind Compl. Golfer 302/1 One must really see Pine Valley to appreciate it... Thrill with one's pars, be satisfied with a ‘bogey’, and continue on far from downcast after a ‘double bogey’.

1961 J. S. Salak Dict. Amer. Sports 54 Bogey (golf), the total score any average player might make on a hole. Not any hole shot in one over par, though this interpretation has at times gained some acceptance.

1974 Greenville (S. Carolina) News 23 Apr. 8/5 He made bogey from the woods.

1977 New Yorker 8 Aug. 56/2 He struggled down in two putts, holing from three and a half feet for his bogey 5 and a four-round total of 278.

1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 266 After the rubber golf ball was invented in America in 1898.., the bogey that had been established for the old gutta-percha ball became too easy and the British lowered their bogies by about one stroke per hole and kept the term, but Americans began to use the word par instead, keeping the old British word bogey to mean the older, easier expected score of a good player, usually one stroke more than the new par.