bogy

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Lopez-Chacarra overcame a triple bogy on the long par-4 seventh and tied Sargent for the lead with a short birdie on the par-4 15th.

From Seattle Times • May 30, 2022

In the 1950s, 3D was wheeled out to upstage television, the industry bogy of that era.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2010

The bogy of recession that had haunted everyone for four years was not completely laid, but it was a vanishing specter.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bogy behind much of the adverse change in the job market is global competition, the single most powerful economic fact of life in the 1990s.

From Time Magazine Archive

And all the while the plotters had secret harbourage at Dean Tower, coming and going by stealth and in the darkness, avoiding all men, playing no bogy tricks, but maturing their plans.

From Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea by Bevan, Tom