triple bogey

noun

, Golf.

1. a score of three strokes over par on a hole.

Example Sentences

The game doesn’t explicitly spell any of this out, so a lot of the fun is playing, scoring a bunch of triple bogeys and then analyzing what went wrong.

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His fourth shot went about 10 feet and Horschel finished with a triple bogey.

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Schauffele got within two strokes of Matsuyama and was alone in second after the 15th hole, but he suffered a debacle at the 16th and fell off the chase with a triple bogey.

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Thomas bounced back to birdie 11, but then made triple bogey on the par-5 13th.

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The 2015 Masters winner went into the trees there Thursday and had some trouble getting out, leading to a triple bogey.

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