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  • He got back into contention with a level par 71 containing six birdies, four bogeys and one double bogey.
  • He reeled off six consecutive pars before taking bogey from a greenside bunker at No. 8. USATODAY.com - Goosen ganders second U.S. Open victory
  • His round included five birdies and not a single bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Terrorism may have replaced the Devil as the bogeyman, but the same principle applies.
  • You go through the different floors of that factory and come to where they are making big electrical generators and you see guards around with their rifles because Russia's bogey is that somebody is trying to copy them all the time and steal their secrets. Our Times Viewed From a World Perspective
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  • They both took quadruple bogey nines and suffered the exquisite torture that golf inflicts on all those who deign to play the game.
  • How did such a committed environmentalist as Helm become the greens' bogeyman? Times, Sunday Times
  • Woods then bogeyed the ninth for the third time this week to see his lead cut to two after a wild second that missed the green by miles.
  • Players earn points for each hole, ranging from minus one for a bogey to five for an eagle. The Sun
  • The Bogeyman is not big on training aids, mainly because they require some type of training, but I recently came across a remarkable new gadget called The Gyro Swing. STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • His nadir came in the shape of a double-bogey at the par - 5 seventh where he pranged one into the rough, another behind the green and, all the while, swished his club about in ill-disguised anger.
  • Stuart Appleby struggled on the home stretch, registering three bogeys in four holes before an out-of-bounds drive on the last cost him three points.
  • We have to bid farewell to our best friends - the giants, the fairies, Santa Claus and the bogeyman.
  • His round included an eagle, three birdies and one bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • He had eight birdies, four bogeys, one double bogey and five pars. Times, Sunday Times
  • Of course we are brought around again to that bogey man of subjectivity where people pick and choose to suit their own fancies with regard to beliefs.
  • He started the day with a one-point lead, but surrendered his advantage with four bogeys in an eight-hole stretch mid-round.
  • Age is another bogey for actresses.
  • Strange, he hadn't seemed the type to be scared of bogeymen.
  • Deforestation, soil erosion, overstocking of cattle are no longer seen as bogeys or as inevitable consequences of population increase.
  • In the final round he gave us the full panoply of eagles, birdies, bogeys and pars. Times, Sunday Times
  • Parry actually led the championship with seven holes to play until he made a triple bogey from the rough on No. 12, which enabled Van de Velde to regain the lead. Paul Lawrie wins British Open
  • The bogey of community in peril was falsely raised to keep the constituency within the preserve of male candidates.
  • Par on any hole is a good score, a birdie is a bonus, and a bogey is inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • But a bogey on that hole meant all I needed on the par - 4 18th was a 5 and I would break 90.
  • Murphy along with Breen and Elliott broke the bogey time on the second stage and when it was repeated for the fourth stage, they did likewise.
  • Anyway, in the first keynote political speech of the year, she's reanimated the old bogeyman argument that earth's oil supply is about to run out.
  • That led to another bogey courtesy of a misdirected chip and insipid putt. Times, Sunday Times
  • But they played the final 13 in five under par without a bogey. The Sun
  • The term "bogeyman" seems to have come from the Welsh "bwg" spirit and the word "bug" was applied to insects because of the belief that insects were souls in search of rebirth. WalesOnline - Home
  • By accentuating the positive effects of global commerce, they hope to show that the left's new bogey man has no clothes.
  • Herb lost out when he three putted the 18th to take a bogey instead of parring the hole.
  • But heading down the 18th, back in the lead he enjoyed at the start of play, he nearly combusted but managed to rescue a bogey after a less than perfect approach shot, over-long chip and over-hit putt.
  • The Major later decided that such a formidable opponent must certainly be an officer, and christened him ‘Colonel Bogey,’ a term still heard today.
  • Having had a poor run of three bogeys in four holes from the seventh, she had the consolation of a strong finish.
  • His round included five birdies and not a single bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a bogey on the first hole, I hit into the woods on the par - 5 second and had to punch out.
  • I felt isolated, even fearful of unknown bogeymen and demons.
  • His round included an eagle, three birdies and one bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three pars and a bogey over the four rounds would be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Jerry Kelly was at 2 over until he took double bogey from the front of the 14th green, then rinsed one in the pond short of the 15th green for another bogey. Appleby one up on Woods after rough day at Masters
  • Ricky Barnes has gotten in 36 holes, bogeyed only one of them, and leads the tournament with an 8-under 132. All 'grown up,' Barnes shows off his game at U.S. Open
  • A boggle is a bogey, an unchancy spirit; he lives there.
  • Unsure he would even play the event after learning wife Amy has breast cancer, Lefty missed the birdie putt on 15, walking away with his second par on the 459-yard par 4 — the hole where Tiger Woods made a 6 Friday and bogeyed from the fairway Saturday. Mickelson hits hybrid to remember during his second-round 70
  • I dunno, is that really the bogeyman the fully insured republican congressman thinks it is? Matthew Yglesias » NYT/CBS Poll Shows People Love Socialized Medicine
  • Nonetheless, I want to constantly acknowledge that the risk of the slippery slope isn't just some bogeyman - it's a reflection of real processes that occur in human institutions.
  • Just as quickly, two bogeys and a double bogey cost him the lead.
  • Many kids are scared of monsters under the bed, ogres and bogeymen lurking in wardrobes and the cupboard under the stairs.
  • But they played the final 13 in five under par without a bogey. The Sun
  • What it did include were two eagles, four birdies, one triple bogey and two bogeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Umm Ba'ula, the mother of bogeys, is a supernatural figure in warning stories told to small children.
  • On the 16th he pulled his second shot and had to play backwards on his way to a double bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the final round he gave us the full panoply of eagles, birdies, bogeys and pars. Times, Sunday Times
  • He made two more birdies and another bogey on his back nine. Times, Sunday Times
  • Unlike vampires, killers in masks and other movieworld bogeymen, zombies have no real agenda of their own.
  • But a wayward drive out of bounds at the 16th cost Grace a double bogey. The Sun
  • He had just six bogeys and one double bogey in the first three rounds.
  • Republicans drink lattes, drink wine, try to get their spawn into top tier universities, secure every government position or subsidy they can get their skeletonized hands on, and everything else they ever try to use to separate themselves from the mythical liberal bogeymen that condescend to them. Matthew Yglesias » The Wine Track
  • I am cautious of any paper that uses AIPAC as a bogey man, instantly dismisses as propaganda anything — no matter how well documented — that may support Israel’s version of the facts, and puts scare quotes around “Commandoes” when describing 4 armed frogmen from the Al Aksah Martryrs Brigade en route from Gaza to Israel The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
  • But four bogeys in five holes saw him drop into second. The Sun
  • Three pars and a bogey over the four rounds would be acceptable. Times, Sunday Times
  • National heroes and despised bogeymen have been made to switch roles in the curricula as well as public sentiment; minor historical characters have been recalled donning heroic mantles.
  • Looking back now, I could have made bogey and still won, but fortunately I had a good tee shot and pitching wedge into the green, and kind of eked my putt up there and tapped it in. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • It's become an iconic canvas onto which an entire generation projected its fear of the Other, a 1960s bogeyman.
  • Golf had fewer admirers than had the other sport, but what there were were fully as enthusiastic, and the coming tournament was discussed until Joel's head whirled with such apparently outlandish terms as "Bogey," "baffy, The Half-Back
  • Bogey woe on the final day cost North Yorkshire's king of swing Simon Dyson dear in the Dubai Desert Classic.
  • Consequently bogeyman excuses are co-opted to obtain sanction for this unethical abrogation of a natural right even more fundamental than liberty. I, Pirate …
  • Also known as a boogeyman or bogeyman, one can only have an effect if its victim pays heed to it.
  • How and why the play cultivates such mixed responses toward a tyrannical, regicidal, fratricidal, uxoricidal, incestuous bogey-man will occupy our attention.
  • Of course, any such attempt is constrained by the spectre of a nuclear war, whose bogey is very calculatingly turned off and on by the country's government officials.
  • He needs to make people feel that not to have them would be like making a bogey, that it would be a loss. Times, Sunday Times
  • Salt may be the culinary bogeyman but just look at the magic it does. Times, Sunday Times
  • Lawrie could have played cautiously, laid up with a wedge on his second shot and then hit another, shorter wedge shot into the green for a certain bogey 5 to secure his win. Claret Jug back at home
  • But why has the oil bogeyman become less scary?
  • A double bogey there killed his momentum. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are only about five actual bogeymen left in the world, and you're not in immediate danger from any of them.
  • Many kids are scared of monsters under the bed, ogres and bogeymen lurking in wardrobes and the cupboard under the stairs.
  • The old values of community are reaffirmed while progress is forever the bogeyman.
  • So there he was Sunday, seemingly in control, not having made a bogey throughout a long weather-delayed day of golf, and he hits a shank.
  • I don't like it when anyone tries to motivate me with bogeymen or a fear of some coming apocalypse.
  • He made two more birdies and another bogey on his back nine. Times, Sunday Times
  • His round included five birdies and not a single bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • She also kept her composure out on the course, more than doubling her overnight three stroke lead with a near faultless two under par 71, which included only one bogey as well as three birdies.
  • His approach shot finished 20 yards short of the green and another bogey ensued. Times, Sunday Times
  • To be polite, he took a sip from his cup too, and almost gagged: The stuff was quite disgusting, as though someone had liquidized bogey-flavored Every Flavor Beans. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows
  • He played an inconsistent round comprising six birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey.
  • He had eight birdies, four bogeys, one double bogey and five pars. Times, Sunday Times
  • He has had only one bogey in 36 holes. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three bogeys in four holes from the ninth saw him subside to five-under-par for the tournament, which is where he finished.
  • He surprised the Labor movement with his exploitation of the communist bogey.
  • It was at the same hole that McGinley bunkered his approach in the BMW PGA Championship final round, the resultant bogey costing him that title.
  • It's the moment in which fear is no longer the bogeyman under your bed.
  • We have the means and enough reasons to blot this bogeyman out of existence.
  • How did he make a double bogey from the fairway on the 18th hole? Times, Sunday Times
  • His approach shot finished 20 yards short of the green and another bogey ensued. Times, Sunday Times
  • After all, salt is the culinary bogeyman. Times, Sunday Times
  • But just to do that makes you the bogeyman; the polluter. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her second round of 55 was achieved despite a treble bogey at the downhill 16th courtesy of twos at the second, fifth, twelfth, thirteenth and seventeenth.
  • “The then NDA Government in which NC was also a part had thrown the autonomy resolution the dustbin but despite humiliation, the party (NC) remained in the coalition just to enjoy the power” she said and cautioned the people that NC leaders were again raising the bogey of autonomy to befool the common masses. National Confrence always bartered J&K State���s interests for the lust of power: Mehbooba
  • How did he make a double bogey from the fairway on the 18th hole? Times, Sunday Times
  • In communities where women had time to keep an eye out for each other's kids, for instance, mothers such as Sarah were not afraid to let their children out of their sight for fear of the bogeyman.
  • The in-form Spaniard blew his chances by racking up a sextuple bogey at the par-three 11th.
  • He went for broke, making a bogey on his second hole and five birdies over the next six. Times, Sunday Times
  • Par on any hole is a good score, a birdie is a bonus, and a bogey is inevitable. Times, Sunday Times
  • It splashed down well short, costing him a double bogey. The Sun
  • I played solid golf and made a couple birdies and a poor double bogey at the 2nd. Times, Sunday Times
  • Players earn points for each hole, ranging from minus one for a bogey to five for an eagle. The Sun
  • And 40 on the front sidepar 34wasnt really awful either, considering the four-putt, the unmentionably sloppy double bogey on five, and the ugly five iron on nine. The Italian Summer
  • How did he make a double bogey from the fairway on the 18th hole? Times, Sunday Times
  • He went for broke, making a bogey on his second hole and five birdies over the next six. Times, Sunday Times
  • The media depict him as a left-wing bogeyman.
  • You don't open the door wide at night in case the bogeymen sweep in. SNOWLINE
  • Having given himself a sniff of a chance, however, the Canadian left-hander extinguished his hopes with bogeys at the following two holes.
  • On his way to victory, Patel had four birdies in the first 18 holes, marred by a bogey and one double-bogey and four more birdies coming in, a round also spoiled by a couple of one-over par holes.
  • I remember I had to make an eight-foot putt for bogey on the first hole.
  • His round included an eagle, three birdies and one bogey. Times, Sunday Times
  • Did people still tell their kids imbecilic scare stories about bogey policewomen?
  • The 17th is simply a nightmare," said Fred Funk, who five-putted the 17th in 2001 and made a bogey there en route to winning the Players in 2005. On the bag: Now playing, Return to PGA Tour's island
  • He again started sluggishly in the final round, taking bogey from the rough on No. 1 and having to save par from thick grass short of the green at No. 2. Glover, Barnes lead as U.S. Open heads to Monday finale
  • There is a tendency to reduce serious issues to an infantile contest between different shades of the politics of fear, as all sides deploy their pet bogeymen in an effort to scare us like children rather than treat us like thinking adults.
  • The term "bogeyman" seems to have come from the Welsh "bwg" spirit and the word "bug" was applied to insects because of the belief that insects were souls in search of rebirth. WalesOnline - Home
  • As the military surges into Afghanistan and Pakistan and Xe Services LLC (formerly known as Blackwater) and the CIA eke into Pakistan and Yemen, the appetites of toadyish liberal analysts demand their daily diet of Republican bogeys. Legitgov
  • I have traveled through Malaysia, China, Singapore, and Japan amongest others and when I heard the story about the Nigerian with a bomb in his underwear, I had to ask myself just how low would the government go to create a bogeyman. OpEdNews - Diary: The Nigerian On Flight 253
  • She communist bogey is an American stunt to distract the attention of the people of Articles written by Nelson Mandela for Liberation, 1955-59
  • Can't we just line-up the outgoing cabal of treasonous conspirators (if indeed the welfare dependant electorate chooses to 'outgo' them - by no means certain, imho) against the wall of the Citadel on the day of the Queen's Birthday Parade and have a contingent from the Brigade of Guards shoot the the whole feckin'lot of 'em, as the Band of The Royal Marines plays Colonel Bogey, followed by Beyond Dull Care as their rancid carcasses are removed in a City of Westminster shit-cart. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
  • Stenson bogeyed his last two holes for a 70 – six worse than his first day score – while Coetzee birdied two of his last three for a second successive 67. Henrik Stenson and George Coetzee share lead at BMW International Open
  • Instead, he bogeyed the 12th and 13th before a double-bogey on the 15th and another bogey on the 16th completed a miserable day. Justin Rose moves four shots clear at the BMW Championship
  • It is also possible to identify bogey teams - the teams who consistently outperform against another side. Times, Sunday Times
  • A bogey on the opening hole led to a grimace and prolonged whispering from the galleries. Times, Sunday Times
  • Proliferation of nuclear weapons may be the big bogey, but the proliferation of copying machines will do the job just as well.
  • Their expert advice has meant the difference between a birdie or a bogey for countless golfers.
  • She had four birdies on a bogey-free front side and led by four strokes at the turn.
  • Orr was the steadier of the two, going bogey-free, but it was Forsyth who left the course knowing he could and should have scored even better than he did.
  • The red bogey was invoked by the politicians, with one claiming Australians were "sick to death of commos".
  • Surely there can be no better way to interest young children in science than talking bogeys.
  • What it did include were two eagles, four birdies, one triple bogey and two bogeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • The rails that trains run on underground in coal mines are stacked on bogeys in a pyramid shape.
  • Could it possibly be that rather than taking part in a reasoned debate on what is best for Waterford, there are people who would rather instill worry and fear by whispering in secret about non-existent bogeymen?
  • It's a second bogey in three holes since the turn.
  • How did he make a double bogey from the fairway on the 18th hole? Times, Sunday Times
  • But some people really need to conquer their fear of this bogeyman that lurks in their psyches.
  • She struggled in the second round, leading Ochoa by just a stroke after two bogeys and four birdies.
  • He went for broke, making a bogey on his second hole and five birdies over the next six. Times, Sunday Times
  • For many in the green lobby, atomic power is the ultimate bogeyman, blighting landscapes and producing waste which is difficult to dispose of safely.
  • Old bogeys that should have been buried years ago have been needlessly reinvigorated.
  • Stenson was the only player without a bogey on his round and missed just one fairway en route to a sterling 6-under-par 66 to beat runner-up Ian Poulter by four shots. On the bag: Now playing, Return to PGA Tour's island
  • Eliminating the need for external adjusters saved weight, cost and complexity, and helped the three automakers easily surpass their durability bogeys.
  • While behaviour disturbance, depression, extreme anxiety, and other psychiatric conditions might become manifest, post traumatic stress is the bogey.
  • The song is sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey.
  • The Court of Appeal decision did not raise any bogeys.
  • Under the U.S. Golf Association's ESC system, players with course handicaps of 9 or less can post no more than a double bogey on any hole.
  • We invent bogeymen and angels to explain the inexplicable.
  • McIlroy looked as though he would be at least level with Donaldson but bogeyed the 16th and 17th holes for a 67. Westwood and McIlroy blocking Donaldson's path to victory
  • Right now that bogeyman is too feeble to inspire fear. What Goes Up Could Come Down: Stock-Bond Correlation
  • She fell three behind after 10 holes before Bob Mucha wobbled to three bogeys and a double bogey over the final six holes.
  • The song is sung to the tune of Colonel Bogey.
  • He has had only one bogey in 36 holes. Times, Sunday Times
  • But four bogeys in five holes saw him drop into second. The Sun
  • Appleby is paired with Woods in the final group, after a triple-bogey on No. 17 ensured that no golfer would finish the third round under par for the tournament. Johnson playing it cool at frigid Masters
  • They cannot rise up like bogeymen to attack those who live and work nearby.
  • He made a double bogey on fourteen and a bogey on fifteen.
  • But the bogeymen of social disorder and destruction remain.
  • After slicing his tee ball into the trees at 18, he pitched out and barely sneaked a six-foot bogey putt in the side door.
  • The round went a little quiet then and he bogeyed the 17th after pitching way over the green.
  • But today's report comparing property inflation with rises in wages suggests we are frightened of the wrong bogeyman.
  • McGinley had been in touch with the leaders since day one but two bogeys and a double bogey in four holes proved his undoing.
  • But a 10-foot birdie putt on the 376-yard 15th put Goosen back in sole possession of top spot and he then safely negotiated a final hole which an hour earlier had seen Swede Peter Hedblom put three balls in the water for a sextuple bogey 11.
  • His victory was bizarre, with a double bogey on the third extra hole of a three-way play-off.
  • He bogeyed the 15th, the 16th and the 17th hole, and slid backwards into a tie with Keegan Bradley, who would go on to win his first major after a playoff. Is It Time for Golf to Feel the Noise?
  • He needs to make people feel that not to have them would be like making a bogey, that it would be a loss. Times, Sunday Times
  • What it did include were two eagles, four birdies, one triple bogey and two bogeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had Scarlett been an adult satirist, I would have taken the chance to inflict more wounds upon her and maybe said ‘Your house is fashioned from a mixture of sweat and bogeys.’
  • With the Premier title already in the bag and the FA Sunday Cup final looming on Sunday, Albion Sports paraded most of their third string for the visit of bogey side Crown.
  • Age is another bogey for actresses.
  • Venturi scolded Els for a chanceful shot that went into the water on 13 and led to a triple bogey. USATODAY.com - Venturi shows class in farewell
  • He was six over after the first seven holes after a run of four bogeys compounded by a double bogey on the sixth.
  • Telling grown-ups to ‘vote - or else the bogeymen will get you!’ was never likely to prove a winning ticket.
  • No one knew that the victims they imagined as faceless bogeymen with unpronounceable names, I imagined as my mother.
  • Henry is gritty and terrifying because it's not based in aliens, zombies or fictional bogeymen - it's based on what may be living next door to us.
  • DiMarco, tied for the lead after the first round, had an inconsistent round that included an eagle, four birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey.
  • Just as small children project their fear of the dark on to an imaginary bogeyman, the protagonists of the Western economies lay their fears at the door of the Iraqi dictator.
  • His round included two birdies, four bogeys, a double-bogey and a triple-bogey.
  • The win, of course, was that bin Laden could then be used as a bogey man to scare Americans into approving the conflux of sleaze and mass murder called the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Matthew Yglesias » The Low Bar
  • He chipped his third shot through the green and watched as his fourth dribbled back to his feet before avoiding a double bogey by chipping in from 35 feet.
  • But a double bogey at the 10th halted the spree. The Sun
  • That led to another bogey courtesy of a misdirected chip and insipid putt. Times, Sunday Times
  • But his round fell apart when he carded a double bogey on the 15th and a bogey on the final hole.
  • What it did include were two eagles, four birdies, one triple bogey and two bogeys. Times, Sunday Times
  • And yet you say that both pedophiles and terrorists are the "bogeymen used by the government" and yet it was you that brought up the question of the scanners being "purvey". Manchester Evening News - RSS Feed
  • One common one causing fright or dread was called in Yorkshire the boggart, in Scotland the bogle, and in England the bogey or bogeyman.
  • A nation of namby pambies whining about every two-bit bogeyman is just a second-rate nation of Chicken Littles. David Ropeik: The Word: Feariness
  • Allyson squeezed her eyes together tightly, trying to shove away the images of imaginary green bogeymen running through her blood, attacking her from within.
  • Evans, who missed out on last year's play-off by bogeying the final hole at Muirfield, took full advantage of his favourable early start to finish with a level par 71.
  • The neurotic pictures and obsessive fears slowly began to fade; the ugly, ghostly bogeymen stopped appearing from dirty, ancient corners of the basement, tapping him on the side of his imagination to startle him.
  • I hobbled into the clubhouse after bogeying the hole and shooting my first 79.
  • Ogden went one down after a bogey on the 31st hole but again squared the match with a birdie on the 15th hole — by hitting an 8-iron to four feet and sinking the ensuing putt. USATODAY.com - Ogden, who beat Wie, wins men's Publinx
  • - U.S. Open champion Lee Janzen was at 4-under until he took a double bogey from the back bunker on the par-3 12th. Olazabal wins second green jacket
  • The early period of the Hawke government saw real if flawed attempts to wrestle with the unemployment bogey.
  • It has all the great Howard Hawks things: every dame a dish, every night foggy and filled with mystery; but the real thing that keeps me watching, that thrills me to discover another nuance every time I see it, is the joyful tongue in wry cheek that Bogey and Bacall play in every scene together. The Next to Last Day of May
  • When he stepped on to the 18th tee he held an eight-shot advantage over Day, knowing that anything less than a sextuple bogey 10 would be enough to win. US Open 2011: Remarkable Rory McIlroy wins by eight shots

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