Used in a sentence: "Poor Kevin Na, now going down in history for his duodecuple-bogey."
My exposure to golf is really more on the Golden Tee level (shouldn't the 2012 game be out soon?), but I do have to thank it for introducing this word to my vocabulary. Apparently duodecuple means consisting of 12s or 12fold, so when Kevin hit a 16 (or 12 over par), that was a duodecuple bogey. Why is it that they didn't continue the bird name themes for going over par as albatross and eagle sound so majestic -- couldn't 12 over be something like a pigeon?
At least for that day, seeing NA on the leaderboard may just as well have stood for NonApplicable.
WHERE THE BOGEY COMES FROM:
BUT HE's NOT AS BAD AS DALY (GOLFER, NOT THE MAYOR):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/golf/8452937/Americas-Kevin-Na-makes-duodecuple-bogey-16-to-set-Tour-record-for-highest-score-on-par-four.html
FIND A GAME IN YOUR NECK OF THE WOODS:
http://www.goldentee.com/gt/GT/
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