English edit

Etymology edit

bogey +‎ -land

Noun edit

bogeyland (uncountable)

  1. (golf, colloquial) Part of the terrain of a golf course, or (figurative) a situation, that leads to a player achieving no better than a bogey.
    • 2009 June 20, Charles Mcgrath, “Where Golf's Best Looked Their Worst”, in New York Times[1]:
      Even worse than the sand, though, was the grassy bank that comes down between the bunkers, where the rough was so thick it amounted to bogeyland.