why is bogey a golf term?
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Ask and you shall recieve.. you asked "how" the term bogey came into the game --not what a bogey is correct? \n\nhttp://golf.about.com/cs/historyofgolf/a/hist_wordbogey.htm
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Sport! Golf requires PHYSICAL SKILL, which is the definition of "sport". Checkers is a "game", which requires no physical skill. \n\nAnd for those who don't think golf requires physical skill, go try to hit a ball longer than 180 yards to a landing area no wider than 20 yards sometime. Most would be lucky to get 1 in 10 in the zone.
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That is kind of amusing. This undoubtedly came about because there were some folks who understood "par" as a numerical goal but didn't know enough about golf to realize that being "below par" is a good thing!
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Grace\n\n(y is this Q under the golf category?)
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No, because golf is about hitting a ball in the fewest number of strokes to get it into a hole, not about walking the golf course.
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Golfers can have so many bets going it takes hour to figure them all out.  The all have interesting names and every situation can be a separate bet.  Here are some examples - you can find these and many more types of bets on www.playgolfamerica.com look for the heading Games People Play \nArnies - A point is won by a player who manages to make a par or better on a hole without ever hitting a shot into the fairway.  Named after the King of Golf Arnold Palmer for great ability to get out of trouble and save par.  \n\nAutomatics – An agreement between players or teams when one side falls 2 holes behind another bet starts on the next hole.  So if you tied the next hole you would be 2 down for the first bet and even on the second.  \n\nBasket – A series of side bets per hole.  Closest to pin in regulation, fewest putts, low ball, and birdies.  Win all the bets on one hole (Basket) and everything is doubled.  \n\nBeach Bum – A side wager in which a player who fails to get the ball out of a sand bunker must pay everyone $1.00 for each try that doesn’t get the ball out of the bunker. \n\nBest Ball – This is not a scramble.  You play your own ball all of the time.  This can be one player playing against a team of other players or several teams competing against each other.  The best score out of all the team member for that hole will be the team score.  This form of play can use gross scores or net scores.  \n\nBingo-Bangle-Bungle – This is a good game for all players to play against each other and you don’t need a handicap.  Each hole has three bets or points.  The first point is for the person who hits the green first.  Except on par 3; s, the two closest to the holes win one point.  The second point goes to the ball that is closest to the hole once everyone’s ball is on the green.  The third point is decided by the ball that is first to go into the hole.  The person with the ball farthest from the hole must putt.  Now if you win all three bets on the same hole everything is double.   \n\nBloodbath – That’s what happens to me when I get home after a day of betting.  Just Kidding.  Two teams of two playing in the same group.  The other team gets to pick which drive the opposing team has to play.  \n\nBreak the Bank – Stroke play set a value on each stroke.  When the round is over the loser pays the amount times how many strokes they lost by.
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I answered this question 2 months ago, see link under sources:\n\n\n"Fore" is another word for "ahead" (think of a ship's fore and aft). Yelling "fore" is simply a shorter way to yell "watch out ahead" (or "watch out before"). It allows golfers to be forewarned, in other words. \nThe British Golf Museum cites an 1881 reference to "fore" in a golf book, establishing that the term was already in use at that early date (the USGA suggests the term may have been in use as early as the 1700s). The museum also surmises that the term evolved from "forecaddie."\n\nA forecaddie is a person who accompanies a group around the golf course, often going forward to be in a position to pinpoint the locations of the groups' shots. If a member of the group hit an errant shot, the thinking goes, they may have alerted the forecaddie by yelling out the term. It was eventually shorted to just "fore."\n\nA popular theory is that the term has a military origin. In warfare of the 17th and 18th century (a time period when golf was really taking hold in Britain), infantry advanced in formation while artillery batteries fired from behind, over their heads. An artilleryman about to fire would yell "beware before," alerting nearby infantrymen to drop to the ground to avoid the shells screaming overhead.\n\nSo when golfers misfired and send their missiles - golf balls - screaming off target, "beware before" became shortened to "fore."\n\nThis is another term, however, whose exact origin can't be stated. It does originate, however, in the fact that "fore" means "ahead" and, used by a golfer, is a warning to those ahead.
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Here ya go sporty:\n\nhttp://readygolf.com/catalog/pdetail.php?prdid=263
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There is a theory that links the modern word GOLF to the Scottish verb of GOULF (also gowf), which means "to strike or cuff." This theory would at least place the origin of the word with the people who invented the game. As for "striking or cuffing," an integral part of the game is, after all, hitting the ball.
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A birdie is Whenever you shoot one under on a hole in golf. So if the par or avg. amount of shots to finish the hole is 4 shots then to get a birdie you'd have to make it in 3 shots
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You know, now that I listen and recall, Dan Hicks of NBC definitely used that term!\n\nOnly tradition can truly decide this issue.  Television commentators can get it wrong and convince many, but the golfers themselves will never get it wrong.\n\nThe US Open, a fantastic challenging tournament, is NOT the Open Championship.  The British Open, the tournament steeped in the deepest of all traditions is the only championship that be correctly cited as "The Open Championship."
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It has been said that there are 18 holes because in the early days of golf the gents would take a shot of wiskey or scotch at each hole and there are 18 shots in a bottle.\n\nThis of course isnt true but sounds good.\n\nIn reality the first golf courses had less then 18 holes , then St Andrews in Scotland was laid out on a parcel of land near a beach and had 11 holes, they would play the 11 holes out and then turn back and play them again right back to the clubhouse thus playing a total of 22 holes as a round.\nAt some point later it was determined that several holes were simply to short so 2 holes were eliminated leaving 9 holes out and the same 9 back in thus comprising of an 18 hole round which then became standard.\n\nGood question\n\nLeon
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Also known as an "idiot mark", this is where you hit underneath the ball so badly on a full swing with the driver that you get a huge scuff on the top of your club....really a sure sign that you're a major hack!
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it's a golfing term. par is the 'norm' for the hole you are playing. 'below par' means that you have taken too many shots for the hole, which is therfore bad
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2 reasons:\n\n1) They create a rougher surface that allows the grooves on a club to impart backspin on the ball better than if the ball was smooth.\n\n2)  Once airborne and spinning, they serve to increase lift and reduce drag, which generates longer shots compared to a smooth ball.
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"Up" refers to getting the ball on the green (the putting surface) and "down" refers to getting the ball in the hole.\n\nIt is common for professional golfers to get "up and down" in two strokes.
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how is this a golf question?