Definition of triple bogey in English:
triple bogey
nounPlural triple bogeys
Golf A score of three strokes over par for a hole.
Example sentencesExamples
- She posted an excellent level par net 72 to take second place despite carding a triple bogey on the second hole.
- A bogey at the 17th was followed by a triple bogey at the last, leaving the Ryder Cup captain with a 74.
- Ray and I are happy if we end up making no more than what seems like a reasonable number of triple bogeys.
- Good players were recording double figures and triple bogeys became the norm for others.
- Snead made a triple bogey on the final hole to blow the 1939 US Open.
verbtriple-bogeys, triple-bogeyed, triple-bogeying
[with object]Golf Complete (a hole) in three strokes over par.
Example sentencesExamples
- Torrance triple-bogeyed the final hole to match Brand's third-round 74, and Rocca dropped to last place on his own with a 76.
- From eight under he crashed to four under, triple-bogeying the 12th after driving into the trees and bogeying the next.
- Lee has seven strokes to make up after a round in which he played 17 holes in five under, but triple-bogeyed the other - the 506-yard par four fourth.
- He triple-bogeyed the par-4 11th, where a lost ball proved to be his undoing.
- In the final round, Woods dashed any chance of a charge by triple-bogeying the eighth.