bogey1

 
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊgi/
Golf

noun (plural bogeys)

  • a score of one stroke over par at a hole: [as modifier]: he walked off the green with a bogey four
  • old-fashioned term for par1 (sense 1 of the noun) with a handicap of 17, Jones receives an allowance against bogey of 13 strokes

verb (bogeys, bogeying, bogeyed)

[with object]
  • play (a hole) in one stroke over par.

Origin:

late 19th century: perhaps from Bogey, denoting the Devil (see bogey2), regarded as an imaginary player