triple bogey

noun

|Updated on: 21 Jul 2018

Definition of triple bogey

: a golf score of three strokes over par on a hole

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triple-bogey

play \ˈtri-pəl-ˈbō-gē\ transitive verb

Recent Examples of triple bogey from the Web

Tiger Woods shot 78 after opening with a triple bogey, and Jason Day, a player with two PGA Tour victories this season, shot 79.

— bill pennington and zach schonbrun, New York Times, "U.S. Open 2018: A First Round Full of Struggles," 15 June 2018
The first four players took three triple bogeys and a bogey at the hole.

— kevin armstrong, latimes.com, "Shinnecock Hills Golf Club course seems ready to shape another U.S. Open champion," 12 June 2018
That’s where the 24-year-old Dallas native scored a triple bogey and dropped down the leaderboard.

— christopher hanna, courant.com, "Spieth Stumbles In Second Round With 3-Over 73," 22 June 2018
The triple bogey on the penultimate hole at Shinnecock Hills in 2004.

— tod leonard, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Mickelson made dumb decision, but USGA's U.S. Open setup is a joke," 16 June 2018
Spieth waited until the second hole to make a triple bogey, blasted out of a bunker and over the 11th green, and then took three shots to get on the putting surface.

— BostonGlobe.com, "Dustin Johnson among four tied for lead at US Open," 14 June 2018
Woods has played the 15th hole 79 times since his first Masters appearance in 1995, and his worst score was a triple bogey 8.

— karen crouse, New York Times, "Tiger Woods Is More Dogged Than Dazzling in His Return to the Masters," 5 Apr. 2018
But Phil Mickelson's hopes nosedived after a fine start, making a sorry triple bogey on the ninth and then finding the water on the short 12th to run up a double bogey.

— CNN, "Masters 2018: Tiger survives the cut as Patrick Reed leads at halfway," 6 Apr. 2018
John Daly, a stroke back after an opening 65, had two triple bogeys in a 79 to tumble into a tie for 60th at 2 over.

— USA TODAY, "McKenzie, Smith share Champions lead in Victoria," 16 Sep. 2017

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