Chipped in my first one today.

[slodsm]

I'm a noob, very very noob but today I finally got my first moment of excitement in golf. It wasn't a far chip but still hahahaha. 355yd par four, I had been taking a beating all day fighting my brutal slice, usually double bogey on every hole because I have yet to manage to correct my swing to where I can square the club on the ball even 50% of the time. I hit the first shot with my 3, not hitting hard, just looking for straight shots into the fairway, followed up with a 4h which is normally my best club and knocked it hard to the right into the trees/grass. Went after it, pulled out the pitching wedge and let her rip towards the green but came up probably 10 ft short. Once I get close to the green I'm usually ok, I can pitch it close to where I want it and 1-2 putt it in, it's the getting from the tee to the green that destroys me.

Well I lined it up, wanted to get it to just pop up nice and high and land flat where I wanted it maybe coming up short because of the slope. Low and behold, it landed right where I wanted it but rolled, rolled, rolled, and dropped in the cup :).

I almost yelled I was so happy hahahaha. I know it's not a huge accomplishment but it felt similar to breaking my first doubles in Sporting Clays, everyone does it but the first one is so sweet.

Granted, the rest of the round was garbage with 2 swimmers, 2 lost, and plenty of penalty strokes but I'm working on that :).

[kregan]

Congratulations!!!!  Nest up is your first eagle, hole in one,  etc!

[mdl]

Nice.  First chip-in is fun, and and unlike pars or a bunch of consecutive pars, they remain exciting pretty much forever!

[McObra]

Congratulations!  I did that on the second round I played.  Feels great, doesn't it?

[BWChuck]

Congrats!

[Chris Stewart]

Don't sell yourself short, that is a huge accomplishment! Those types of milestones open the door to more. They build your confidence and that will help improve your game. For me it was recently scoring my first birdie. Since my first, I get one about every other round or so now (on 9 hole outings even) where it took a long time for the first.