Editing Colonel Bogey March (section)

==History==
[[File:Colonel Bogey March piano solo.pdf |thumb|right|"Colonel Bogey March" sheet music by [[Kenneth J. Alford]] ]]

Since service personnel were, at that time, not encouraged to have professional lives outside the armed forces, British Army bandmaster F. J. Ricketts published "Colonel Bogey" and his other compositions under the pseudonym [[Kenneth J. Alford]] in 1914.<ref>Gene Phillips (2006). ''Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films of David Lean''. p. 306. University Press of Kentucky.</ref> One supposition is that the tune was inspired by a British military officer who "preferred to whistle a descending [[minor third]]" rather than shout "Fore!" when playing golf.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/1999/04/bogey.htm|title = The real Colonel Bogey}}</ref>  It is this descending interval that begins each line of the [[melody]]. The name "Colonel Bogey" began in the late 19th century as an imaginary "standard opponent" in assessing a player's performance,<ref>''The [[Royal Cornwall Gazette]]'' of 10 March 1892 reports the results of the Royal Cornwall Golf Club Ladies versus "Colonel" Bogey</ref> and by [[Edwardian]] times the Colonel had been adopted by the golfing world as the presiding spirit of the course.<ref>Many references to the Colonel in the press include a letter from a "golf widow" to ''The Times'' of 3 June 1914.</ref> Edwardian golfers on both sides of the Atlantic often played matches against "Colonel Bogey".<ref>Toronto; Globe 25 October 1904 p. 10.</ref> [[Bogey (golf)|Bogey]] is now a golfing term meaning "one over par".<ref>{{cite book |last1 = Harris |first1 = Ed |title = Golf Facts, Figures & Fun |volume = Illustrated |publisher = AAPPL |year = 2007 |isbn = 978-1-904332-65-7 |url-access = registration |url = https://archive.org/details/golf0000harr }}</ref>