What do you consider a "true" eagle?

[sean_miller]

Originally Posted by jshots

An Eagle where you hole out from a good distance with a good iron shot is the best kind. Any Eagle that you putt for is not quite as awesome in my opinion, but it is still an Eagle on the card.

Considering I'm more likely to hole out from the fairway than make a darned putt, I'll go with the latter. A putting eagle needed 3 good shots. A holeout was just one lucky one.

[bwdial]

Originally Posted by Timothy Voyles

I've got 3 that I claim. No mulligans, no favorable lies, just 3 strokes each.

6 years ago, par 5 530 yards. Elevated tee box, smashed drive to right center of fairway. Played a 3w into and elevated green ball hits front and bounces up, I was just happy to have been straight at the green, muchless the flag. We walk up the front of the green and there it is, 18 inches from the hole. Tap in and walk away happy as can be.

Skip forward to last summer, yes that long before it happened again. Another par 5, can't recall yardage. Big dog leg left down a hill. Driver got the perfect bounce to roll an extra 40+ yards setting up a 6 iron into an elevated green. Same thing as before, walk up and there it is, just outside a foot of the cup.

And finally one this year! on that hole, 521 yard par 5. Played from blues to the right side of water. Stood around for waiting on slow couple again, finally whacked 3h up to around 60 yards out.

Flag had a nice front left position, grabbed the 50* ping g15 wedge and lofted it up. I actually tugged it a little left but caught the edge of the fringe and got a beautiful kick right.... a nice slow roll at the flag and the ball disappeared. My buddy was goofing around on his phone and missed it. I did a little fist pump jump thing and he's like wtf are you doing? Eagle baby! He sighed and said BS... The random we were partnered with that day comes rolling up from taking his shot about 50 yards back and asks if it went in, I replied hell yeah! The entire foursome behind us saw the whole thing. I got a 4 stranger standing ovation from the group behind us.

The first two were nice but having small tap ins didn't feel near as good as the 60 yard hole out. I saved that ball and it still sits on my night stand.

Dude... look at the size of the cup you're hitting to!  It's the size of a swimming pool. ;)

[Timothy Voyles]

Originally Posted by bwdial

Dude... look at the size of the cup you're hitting to!  It's the size of a swimming pool. ;)

Oh that was on #17, I had a double on it....

[jshots]

Originally Posted by sean_miller

Considering I'm more likely to hole out from the fairway than make a darned putt, I'll go with the latter. A putting eagle needed 3 good shots. A holeout was just one lucky one.

Well a holeout involves some luck, but It takes a good shot too (most the time). But actually you are right... to Eagle a short par 5 takes typically a really good long iron shot which is way harder, and then possibly a good putt.