"Your First Birdie" Thread

[jaysquared]

Started golfing 2 months ago and I finally got my first birdie! Been wondering when I was going to get it.. I've come close before but just couldn't putt it in! What a great feeling! Now I just have to do that 3-4 times per round and par the rest of the holes and i'm good!

[Jimbo Slice]

Nice, mine was around 6 weeks. It was much more elusive then expected. I had to chip my first one in from 12 yards on a par 4.

[jaysquared]

Mine was a par 4 as well.. First shot with the driver wasn't so good it went to the rough, 2nd shot was with my 5 iron about 150 yards out and go it about 6 foot from the hole, from there 1 putted.. Seems so simple.. Why can't I just do that every dang hole!

[Tuflehundon]

Mine was on a dogleg left par 5 over that went around a pond. Almost a 90* turn dogleg. My buddy looks at me and said, I bet you can't hit it over the water. So I lined up and tried it. I did carry the water (barely) and ended up in the rough near the green. Chipped onto the green and then 2 putted.

I think I had been playing 5 months at that time.

[Mattplusness]

It was sometime during my second season. There was a 270 yard par 4. I drove the green and 2 putted.

[njcl13]

I dont know if i've ever had a birdie,if i have i forgot it,i aint been to a course in years,as for golf i hit a few balls on the school fields,i'll visit a course near me soon

[njcl13]

ahh i remember driving on a green,short par 4 {a fluke drive},i then 4 putted..........

[David in FL]

Congratulations! Not sure exactly how long I had been playing......prob less than a year, but it was over 40 years ago and I still remember it. Little muni course in Racine Wisconsin. Number 9....a short par 3. Prob 120 yds or so. Rolled it onto the front of the green and sunk a 40 ft + putt. That thing went in like a rabbit going down a hole! Fun stuff!

[Matthew Brett]

It took me about 6 months (not including pitch and putt haha), so that is pretty impressive.  My brother just started and golf about 120 ... so you wouldn't expect him to have one under his belt, but on a par 4, he had a tap-in  birdie on maybe his 10th round ever.

Congrats again.

[trackster]

Mine was in my first year of golf (not exactly sure on the time, maybe 3 months)  I chipped one in from about 25 yards out.  I then proceeded to run around the green screaming haha.

[B-Con]

I played off and on for a couple years and then seriously for maybe a year before I got one. I had no natural golf talent, so I had very few chances at birdie to begin with, let alone ability to capitalize on it. It was a short par 4. Hit a good, long drive, then a PW to about 12 feet, then made the put.

[The Mad Hatter]

Congratulations! That is awesome. I have not had one yet. Putting for me is so difficult. I am happy for +1 on a hole. Most the time is a +2. I just can't putt lol.

[justtapitin]

Nice job!!

Mine was more than an half year after start play the game and it was par3, 240 yrd.

Of course I couldn't get the tee shot on green but was able to chipped it in.

I roared like Tiger....

[ThatGolfGuy]

Its more fun when you hit birdies.

[MajorSlice]

i got mine about 3 weeks if i remember correctly. I got my first par on my first time golfing though.  it also happened to be my first chip in.  had some luck rolling on that hole.

[inthehole]

Got my first one quite luckily about 2 months into playing my first year.     It was on "Hagen's Folly" at DWG - a par 3 hole with dramatically elevated green - if you miss the green might as well be in water - can't hack your way up the side of the mountain in the deep fescue grass.     Story goes, Hagen was winning the annual PA state tournament as usual & pulled an 8 on this very hole and lost.     So, my first time on this course, I hit the tee shot thin & ran it about 25 ft past the hole (at least made the green so I was elated).     Actually made the putt ... so it was a memorable first birdie ... fondly remember it as the day I beat Hagen (btw - he still holds the course record - pro has tied it several times, but never beat it ... it truly amazes me what the legends were able to accomplish with the old hickory shafted rudimentary clubs).

[jaysquared]

Originally Posted by The Mad Hatter

Congratulations! That is awesome. I have not had one yet. Putting for me is so difficult. I am happy for +1 on a hole. Most the time is a +2. I just can't putt lol.

Practice makes perfect! When I first started 2 months ago I was so obsessed in hitting the "long ball" all I did was hit drivers and nothing else.. Then I played my first round of golf and noticed I only used my driver like 20% of the time and the rest were my irons and short game.. That's when I started putting in work on the practice greens putting and chipping.. Helped my game improve a lot..

[JerryTimes]

It took me longer than I thought.   It was probably the 5th or 6th round that I played.  I was at Rammler Golf Club in Sterling Heights MI.  It was on the 11th hole, a 161 yard par 3.  I Hit the green and had probably a 15 foot put that wasn't flat.  I was shocked that I made it.