2025 TST Birdie Challenge

[billchao]

Birdied #7 and #17 at the home course today. #7 is new, #17 is not.

[Maroon88]

One more hole birdied today.  Now only 2 left, the #1 and #2 Hcp holes.

[iacas]

Eagled 7 the other day with @DrizZzY (toe-drew a driver, hit a great hybrid to like 15 feet from 251), and birdied 6 today. So, I only have 2 and 8 on the front nine to finish this year, and then several holes on the back. I've not played the back a lot this year.

The 7th I'd previously birdied, I mean. But eagling supersedes that.

[Shindig]

I still don't really have a home course, but after making my first birdie of 2025 today, I'm going to try the away composite.  There's a course not too far from me that I keep meaning to make my home course (and I might have treated as a "home course" some years).  The course my handicap and membership is through I, sadly, haven't played in quite a while   

Maybe one of my 2026 goals should be to get a home course. 

[ChetlovesMer]

I birdied 9 and 11 at Bent Tree. On my way to an 81 (42 + 39).

Bent Tree is looking pretty rough right now. That place gets tons of play and we haven't seen a drop of rain in what feels like forever. 

Anyhow, that gives me 9 out of 18 holes birdied at Bent Tree. Some of them multiple times. Having said that, I'm pretty sure I never even really got close on hole 5 and/or hole 13. According to Shotscope I have very few GIR's on 5 and 13... that makes it really difficult to make any birdies. 

• Hole 5 is medium length par 4 (410 yards), but has a stream through the middle of it. I usually play it 200-210 off the tee. Then another 200-210 shot into the green. Very rare GIR's. 
• Hole 13 is a 195 yard par-3. Lots of NGIR's as there isn't much trouble around it. My GIR's aren't close to the hole so I made a decent split between bogies and pars. But no birdies.

I don't have any more plans to pay Bent Tree this year so it looks like I'll probably close out the season getting 9 out of 18. (Not as good as I had hoped.) 

[TourSpoon]

I added to total today by hopping it in on the first hole for an eagle. A short par 4, I hit 4 wood to 110. With a little breeze in my face I hit a 50 degree gap wedge to 2 feet and watched it hop into the hole for an eagle 2! 

[iacas]

I've knocked off a few holes lately. Slightly heel cut a mini driver into the deep part of the fairway on 17 tonight, chip cut a 9I to about 12 feet shy of the hole, buried the putt in the middle. Funny read on it, too.

1, 8, 10, 14, and 18 remain. I haven't played a lot of golf this summer, so that's not too bad.

[billchao]

Birdied #1 at Quail today. Just barely missed starting my day 2-under.

Lipped out a 6’ birdie putt on #2 that would have also been new. Putts just weren’t dropping for me today.

[iacas]

Eagled number three with a 3I to three feet and birdied 18 with a high toe tee shot into a baseball swing from the rough @ 163, putt from 15 feet just fell in the right side on aerated greens.

-16 with four holes left (2, 8, 10, 14).

[billchao]

Chipped in for birdie on #10. I guess when the putts aren’t dropping this is how I have to make birdies.

[Shindig]

Okay, I went through old scorecards and discovered that (a) yes, I've parred every numbered hole so far this year (good for me), and (b) I apparently made a birdie on my birthday back in June, so that birdie in Arizona a month and a half ago wasn't my first of the year.  

Then, following Bill's suggestion (immediate prior comment to this one), I chipped in today for birdie at #10 at a course I was playing.

[billchao]

On 10/20/2025 at 10:52 PM, Shindig said:

Then, following Bill's suggestion (immediate prior comment to this one), I chipped in today for birdie at #10 at a course I was playing.

I did make a 15-footer for birdie on Saturday that added hole #5 to my away composite and a 2-footer on #18 (repeat) so I may have invalidated my methodology.

[iacas]

Caught up on some away course birdies. I didn't play enough to pass the challenge this year, most likely. And that's okay.

[Shindig]

Picked up a birdie at the par-5 #13 at Navy today;  that's probably the course I've played more than any other this year, at an amazing 7 rounds (8th is tomorrow).  Still, "only" fourth birdie of the year (and first one at this course).  Felt good:  driver, hybrid, 9-iron to a few feet (the flag was not my target, but was within my shot pattern), made the putt.  

[Maroon88]

I guess I'll stay at -16 for this year's challenge.  I never birdied holes 7, 13 (the 2 hardest holes) in 2025.  Also had a couple Eagle putts on the par 5's, but didn't convert either time.  Looking forward to 2026, though!

[iacas]

The 2026 Thread is here: