Milestones/achievements

[joepro23]

I made a double eagle a few weeks ago (hurray!) and I was just doing a little reflecting on some of my golf milestones over the years. Now with the albatross in the books, all the big ones are covered (luckily I was able to start young). So, I wanted to compile all the milestones/achievements that I can remember, which is something I have never done before. I am including a bunch of random/fun ones in there to keep it interesting. I encourage everyone to do the same. Here it goes:

Firsts
Breaking 80 from mens tees : 1999 (12 years old)
First eagle : 2 on a par 4, 105 yards, 9-iron (1999)
First junior tournament win : 1999
Breaking 70 : 68 (also lowest round) (2004)
First ace : 170 yards, 7-iron (2007)
First club championship : 2009
First double eagle : 2 on a 454 yard par 5 - driver/8-iron (2010 - 3 weeks ago)

Cool stuff
Longest par streak : 15 holes
Longest birdie streak : 5 holes
Consecutive rounds with an eagle : 3 (this happened this summer and it is my favorite...all 3 eagles on same course, same hole, with same witness - my dad; 495 yard par 5)
Consecutive rounds below 80 : 18
Most eagles in one round : 2
Most GIR in one round : 16
Lowest putts : 24
Lowest scramble score (team of 4 ): 54 (17-under)
Lowest college golf scoring average : 76.4 (2005-2006 season)
Best college tournament result : 2nd place (71-71 - 142; 2-under)

Wall of shame
Most untimely bogey : First playoff hole (37th hole) of club championship finals circa 2002
First 5-putt in a tournament : Senior year - 2008
Consecutive shots OB : 3

[joepro23]

Perhaps this would have been better suited for a blog post. Still, I am curious about cool milestones/achievements from other TST posters.

[DaSportsGuy]

It's really cool that you have all this stuff. I'm gonna take a trip upstairs and take a look at my scorecard box and see what I can come up with...

[mirv]

agreed - it is really cool you have all that stuff logged. just about every really significant accomplishment i've made on the course came this past season, so i can tick off a fair number of things right off the top of my head:

first round to shoot even par (on par 72 course)
first round to shoot under par (69 on par 70 course)
longest par streak in a round: 12 in a row
longest birdie streak in a round: 3 in a row
eagles this season: 4 (2 holed out from fairway, 2 putting for eagle on par 5 holes)
longest drive: 330 yards (drove the green from the tee, so assuming the scorecard yardage is accurate...)
longest putt: approximately 40 feet

[Dartguy]

I wish I could remember a lot of those things. I really can't remember the first time I broke 80.

Milestones I can remember:

First eagle: #13 Oldham Co. CC made about a 30 foot putt.
First eagle on a par 4: #5 Eagle Creek CC. Holed from about 70 yds.
Shot 73 at Eagle Creek in 1996.
Chipped in from 40 yards on #1 at Heathrow for birdie.
Longest putt: #9 Oldham County CC about 100 feet.
Shot 92 at Valhalla GC, but had to skip a hole or 2 on caddy Monday, hehe

Not really much there.

[joepro23]

agreed - it is really cool you have all that stuff logged. just about every really significant accomplishment i've made on the course came this past season, so i can tick off a fair number of things right off the top of my head:

Nice. I didn't realize it, but I guess it is cool to be able to compile a pretty length list like this. I actually wish I could remember more. For me, some were easy since I kept a scrapbook from my days in junior competition. But, most of them were just floating around in the noggin. My brother and I would always push each other competitively growing up and he kept even better stats than I did.